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With a strong stable of players entering Monday’s National Lacrosse League draft, Victoria product Jesse King could hear his name called anywhere within the top four spots as teams gather to form their future in Toronto.

ITALY 23 CANADA 18 The Langford-based national team lost the game Saturday. But it won new fans for Canadian rugby before a crowd of 33,120 at Elland Road in Leeds, England. “We are in these games.

The Victoria Vikes opened up the floodgates on both Thompson Rivers Wolfpack soccer teams on Saturday.

Houston, they have a problem, which definitely needs to be rectified. For the fourth straight outing, the Victoria Grizzlies surrendered the first goal of the night and it ended up as a fourth straight defeat early into the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey league season.

OKANAGAN 51 WESTSHORE 10 Cam Bedore threw for five touchdowns in the first quarter alone as the undefeated Okanagan Sun rolled to an easy 51-10 victory over an injury-depleted Westshore Rebels club in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

VICTORIA 6 PORTLAND 5 A combined total of 14 Victoria Royals (five) and Portland Winterhawks (nine) players skated in NHL training camps this fall. Alex Forsberg wasn’t among them.

A pre-game mix-up caught the Portland Winterhawks in a kind of no-man’s land outside their dressing room door as they missed the national anthems.

German exchange student Patrick Baurer kept soccer fans at Centennial Stadium thoroughly entertained during the halftime break on Friday, juggling a soccer ball in various funky forms as spectators kept warm, clapping in unison.

Cody Van Lierop is itching to get back into the Victoria Grizzlies’ lineup and he couldn’t pick a better time as the team heads to the annual sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League Showcase.

Aarmin Purewal will be reunited with former Mount Douglas Rams teammates Julian Luis, Christian Krause and Easton Gerard and predecessor Tyler Fong as the Westshore Rebels’ offensive lineman committed to the Manitoba Bisons for 2016 on Thursday.