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TORONTO — There was an air of inevitability to Victoria swimmer Ryan Cochrane’s gold medal in the 2015 Pan American Games on Saturday. The men’s 1,500-metre freestyle was about as sure a thing as there is in these Games.

TORONTO — This one was for Randy Bennett, as they all are now. Two-time Olympic medallist swimmer Ryan Cochrane of Victoria won his first major-Games medal since the death of his coach Bennett this year in Victoria to cancer at 51.

Graig Merritt has a firm belief in his ball club, no matter the result.

With a day off on opening day of the 2015 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Little League Championship, Beacon Hill manager Thor Wishart knows the trip to South Vancouver will be a grind for his 11-12-year-olds.

Jared du Toit, who is heading to Arizona State University next month, had his day in the sun on Friday, claiming the Bostock Trophy as victor of the 113th sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Men’s Amateur Championship at Fairview Mountain Golf Club in Oliver.

Unlike the North American pro staples football, baseball, basketball and hockey, which restock mostly through the draft, pro soccer clubs worldwide long have had a tradition of developing potential future players through their own academy programs.

TORONTO — It would have been sporting suicide of the highest order if the Juan de Fuca Velodrome, a legacy of the 1994 Commonwealth Games, had been allowed to atrophy into extinction because of neglect.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the turnaround for the Victoria HarbourCats. Exactly 10 days ago the West Coast League club was hitting at a rate of .227, better than only the woeful Klamath Falls Gems in the 12-team circuit.

The wind came up and the scores equally soared in the third round of the 113th sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Men’s Amateur at Fairview Mountain Golf Course in Oliver on Thursday. Royal Colwood’s Kevin Carrigan was one of just four players to record a sub-par round.

VICTORIA 5 MEDFORD 1 Three, three-game series and three sweeps — it’s exactly what the doctor ordered for the Victoria HarbourCats, who went from a below-average start to the West Coast League season to back in a race for the one wild card spot and p