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Westshore Rebels head coach J.C. Boice predicted beforehand that if his defence could hold the Kamloops Broncos to 30 points or less they would chalk up their second win of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Football Conference season.

The international summer sports season is ending in triumph for the resurgent Canadian team at the world track and field championships in Beijing, even though Island Olympians Cam Levins and Michael Mason suffered early-round exits in the distance ev

For 29 minutes and 30 seconds the Westshore Rebels were in the ball game.

Jobs will be on the line as the Victoria Grizzlies’ sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League exhibition season begins. The Grizzlies open the preseason tonight at 7 at the Island Savings Centre in Duncan against the Cowichan Valley Capitals.

Two James Bay Athletic Association products can be excused for feeling a sense of déja vu today when sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ plays the Glasgow Warriors in a pre-World Cup rugby tune-up in Halifax.

Defenceman Scott Walford looks more at ease and with a greater sense of certainty about his place in Victoria Royals rookie camp.

Lynne Beecroft’s University of Victoria women’s field hockey program was imprinted on sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s bronze medal at this summer’s 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto with Vikes grads Kaitlyn Williams, Thea Culley and Danielle Hennig on the Canadian team.

It wasn’t the start to the 2015-16 Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League campaign that Mark Osmond wanted, but the owner/president of the Kerry Park Islanders is adjusting on the fly in his third year of running the club.

The Victoria Shamrocks will have to wait until Monday night to find out their Mann Cup opponent and head coach Bob Heyes doesn’t mind one bit. In fact, he’d probably like to see it go to overtime just to extend the two weary combatants even further.

There is not likely to be a skater in the Victoria Royals’ rookie camp even remotely unaware of head coach Dave Lowry’s credentials as head coach of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s team for the 2016 world junior hockey championship this winter in Helsinki, Finland.