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It is that time again for cool nights and warm gyms. What is considered the Everest of girls junior high/senior high school basketball tournaments takes place Friday and Saturday in gymnasiums all over the region.

Having been eliminated during the qualification process for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the Canadian women’s field hockey team has begun the long road to Tokyo 2020 by naming its national team and national development squad for 2016.

VICTORIA 4 ALBERNI VALLEY 2 Brayden Gelsinger is nothing if not persistent. After having an apparent goal disallowed in the scoreless first period, the Victoria Grizzlies forward struck for two power-play goals Tuesday night in a 4-2 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Ryan Cochrane and Ryan Mallette got through an emotionally draining 2015 together. So it’s only fitting Cochrane was announced as the Swimming sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ male swimmer of the year and Mallette as coach of the year on the same day.

The looks on their faces as they hoisted the championship banner and trophy said it all for the Mount Douglas Rams senior varsity football team.

sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ showed in the 2015 Rugby World Cup that it could run with the big dogs, but only for so long, before fading in the crucial late stretches. Part of the reason given was the lack of experience in Test matches.

Since it was only one game he previously played with the Victoria Grizzlies in 2012-13, it might be pushing it to say Haydn Hopkins’ career has come full circle.

The Victoria Grizzlies will play a touring European team on Jan. 27 at The Q Centre. The Red Bull Salzburg U-20 team will tour the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League from Jan. 15-29.

Their run to the provincial double-A senior boys high school basketball championship is now eight months old — a wonderful memory for head coach Ian Hyde-Lay and his St. Michaels University School Blue Jags.

SEATTLE 38 MINNEAPOLIS 7 MINNEAPOLIS — Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks have found a rhythm at the right time.