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CALGARY 79 VICTORIA 75 The University of Victoria Vikes men’s basketball team took great pride in knocking the previous No.

TRI CITY 6 (OT) VICTORIA 5 The comeback kings had the tables turned on them Saturday night. The Victoria Royals (16-7-2) won their previous two games with rallies from behind to defeat the Edmonton Oil Kings and Vancouver Giants.

When the Victoria Royals began play in the Western Hockey League in 2011-12, the Vancouver Giants were expected to be the greatest rival.

The new CARSA performance gym on Friday sounded eerily a lot like the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa as vuvuzelas were given away as part of a fan promotion in the nearly-filled facility and they droned on throughout the night.

Sensing the urgency their general manager and head coach stressed after the night before, the Victoria Grizzlies came up with a much-needed victory at The Q Centre on Friday evening, defeating the Cowichan Valley Capitals 6-2.

Crown Isle Resort and Golf Community will be a crown and jewel on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s slate for the next five seasons as the Courtenay golf course will host one of the circuit’s qualifying school tournaments.

It was expected to be a closer game, but in the end it was a mismatch. The Mount Douglas Rams easily defeated the Kelowna Secondary School Owls 51-13 in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

The Mount Douglas Rams will have Western Conference offensive MVP Gavin Cobb back in the lineup for this afternoon’s sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ High School Football’s triple-A quarter-final matchup against the visiting Kelowna Owls.

The Road to Rio theme Thursday night at the Victoria Conference Centre got retired rower Dominic Seiterle thinking back to his gold-medal Olympic moment at Beijing 2008 with the Elk Lake-based Canadian men’s eight.

It isn’t often you get a marquee match-up in November in basketball.