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All the momentum coming into Friday night was with the Prince George Cougars. But in keeping with the movie theme of the week, there was some sort of Force that was with the Victoria Royals, too. His name is Griffen Outhouse.

Coming off a must-win on Thursday, the Victoria Grizzlies are hoping to carry that momentum into tonight’s matchup at The Q Centre against the Nanaimo Clippers.

Oak Bay High School honoured one of its more popular educators and coaches on Friday night, officially naming its gym after Gary Taylor, who began his career at the acclaimed learning institution in 1955, spending 14 years at the school.

Sarah Kaufman of Victoria has kept an understated profile of late in a sport that is anything but. Mixed martial arts, and its chief vehicle the UFC, is brash, bombastic and explosively violent.

Who let the dogs out, you ask? Well on Thursday night it certainly wasn’t the Victoria Grizzlies, who managed to collar the host Alberni Valley Bulldogs 7-0 to snap a two-game sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Victoria Royals and Prince George Cougars are both trending, but in opposite directions, and toward the fates predicted for them in the pre-season.

The Oak Bay Bays’ opener at the Gary Taylor Classic senior boys basketball tournament was a slow, steady, comfortable cruise as the hosts rang up a 97-57 victory over the Belmont Bulldogs on Thursday afternoon.

The South Island Royals will open the 2015 Mac’s Major Midget hockey tournament at 10 a.m. on Boxing Day in Calgary against the Lethbridge Hurricanes at Max Bell Arena. The schedule was announced Wednesday. The Royals will continue pool play Dec.

The Victoria Royals began Wednesday with the news that they had been unceremoniously dumped from their No. 9 Canadian Hockey League top-10 ranking from the previous week. The day didn’t get any better.

The Oak Bay Bays will honour a legendary basketball coach this week at the tournament named after him — the Gary Taylor Classic.