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The potential for a great road trip turned to a .500 expedition for the Victoria Grizzlies, who dropped a 2-1 result in Trail against the Smoke Eaters on Sunday afternoon to end a taxing three-games-in-three-days weekend.

You鈥檙e not at sa国际传媒 Place anymore, Toto. Extracting points in Latin America in CONCACAF World Cup soccer qualifying is perhaps the toughest thing Canadian national team athletes have to do in any sport.

Two-time world champion Catharine Pendrel, a big Canadian gold-medal hope for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, made her way around the ever-burgeoning mountain-bike trails at Bear Mountain this weekend.

Sit. Heal. Roll over. Play dead. The UVic Vikes barked out all the commands in their weekend basketball series against No. 9-ranked Saskatchewan, muzzling the Huskies for a second straight night on Saturday.

It was a good night for firsts for the Victoria Grizzlies.

SEATTLE 3 VICTORIA 1 On a night drenched in Victoria-Seattle hockey nostalgia, you half expected Guyle Fielder and the ghost of Lester Patrick to show up. Grant Fuhr did, which isn鈥檛 bad.

On this Friday the 13th, what UVic Vikes head coach Dani Sinclair could have used was a fan to slip a black cat in front of fifth-year, six-foot-three Saskatchewan Huskies鈥� post Dalyce Emmerson鈥檚 path as she entered the CARSA gym.

The grey and dampness is the same but the building on Blanshard is different. 鈥淚 remember the rain,鈥� said Grant Fuhr with a chuckle. 鈥淎nd it would have been fun to see the old Memorial Arena again. It certainly had its quirks.

Well, they managed a point.

Talk about reversal of fortune. The Victoria Royals could not do at home what they did with such regularity on the road in sweeping all six games of their recent swing through Saskatchewan/Manitoba and the Western Hockey League鈥檚 East Division.