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There’s something about 19th birthdays in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ that tends to quench a young adult’s thirst.

It was a close shave, but the Oak Bay Barbers delivered yet another triple-A senior boy’s provincial volleyball crown on Saturday night, squeaking by the Mt. Boucherie Bears 15-9 in the fifth and deciding set at the Langley Events Centre.

VICTORIA 5 KOOTENAY 1 The Ice Age is over. Global warming has hit the Western Hockey League. The Kootenay Ice have won three WHL championships, a Memorial Cup and have never missed the playoffs since moving to Cranbook from Edmonton in 1998-99.

VIKES 24 CASTAWAY WANDERERS 5 Rugby observers have compared Crosby Stewart with fellow Oak Bay High and University of Victoria Vikes rugby product Phil Mack.

At times, it seems, Gideone Kremler has to just pinch himself. The Grade 9 quarterback has the good fortune — and incredible athletic prowess — to be leading the Mount Douglas Rams to the potential of not just one, but two sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

For the Victoria Grizzlies, ’tis not only the season to be jolly, it’s also a time to start checking out the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League scoreboards on a nightly basis and scouring the schedules, feverishly analyzing positions in the standings.

To paraphrase Dickens, it’s been the best of times and the worst of times for the Kootenay Ice, who swing through Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre tonight to meet the Victoria Royals (18-8-2).

Away from home in rugby, it wasn’t so good as the Langford-based men’s and women’s national sevens teams opened the 2016 Rio Olympics season with dismal results.

A Victoria-based Senior B lacrosse franchise has been granted conditional approval to compete in the eight-team West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association for next season.

Adam Straith of Victoria was brought across the strait for the necessary sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ content Thursday to announce what could be the most consequential Canadian men’s soccer game in several years.