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His hopes of securing one of the two pre-qualifying berths into the Tim Hortons sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Junior Curling Championships have fallen by the wayside, but that doesn’t mean Paul Henderson and his Victoria Curling Centre rink haven’t benefited from the new B.

It isn’t often a new era opens in tradition-laden collegiate sports.

Defender Adam Straith and goalkeeper Simon Thomas, who lived 10 minutes apart while growing up in Oak Bay, will be dressed tonight in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Place Stadium for the biggest Canadian men’s soccer game in three years. sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ plays Honduras (7 p.m.

The most surprising team in the Western Hockey League gate-crashed the Canadian Hockey League’s top-10 poll for the second time this season, this week at No. 6 behind only the No. 5 Red Deer Rebels among WHL clubs.

Sure, the Victoria Grizzlies are staring at a 1,544-kilometre trip this weekend as a three-game set begins tonight in Coquitlam, before moving on to Merritt and then Trail, in the southeast portion of the province.

The road to the Colonist Cup senior boys city soccer championship begins today with quarter-finals and all eyes are on two-time defending champion St. Michaels University School.

It is an off-season of change for both the Victoria Junior and Intermediate Shamrocks lacrosse programs.

ON THE PITCH • TODAY Quarter-finals McMaster vs. UQAM, 11 a.m. Victoria vs. New Brunswick, 1:30 p.m. Toronto vs. UBC, 4 p.m. Cape Breton vs. York, 7 p.m. * All games at York Stadium in Toronto The symmetry couldn’t be more fitting.

Jim Swanson, Victoria HarbourCats GM and co-owner, sees a lot of parallels to the halcyon era of the early 1990s in the current state of Canadian baseball. And he is happy to surf that big blue wave.

VICTORIA 5 POWELL RIVER 2 Better late than never. Due to the ferry crossing, the Victoria Grizzlies were a little tardy in arriving for their rare Tuesday night sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League encounter in Powell River against the host Kings.