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Life is good for Corey Small, on and off the lacrosse floor. Showing no ill effects from his knee injury two years ago, that rough patch is well behind him. The future looks bright, too, as he will marry his sweetheart, Lauren Lysiuk, in November.

If members of the Victoria HarbourCats aren鈥檛 familiar with the idiom 鈥渕ake hay while the sun shines,鈥� they should probably look it up, before it鈥檚 too late.

Akari Hayashi was asked what it would mean to her to win today鈥檚 sa国际传媒 Junior Girls鈥� Golf Championship taking place at the meticulously manicured Cordova Bay Golf Course.

The more than 50 Island athletes competing in the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games, which begin with the opening ceremonies at the Rogers Centre tonight, came out of modest local fields, trails, courts and lakes.

As with the Summer Olympics or Commonwealth Games, narrowing Island highlights at past Pan Am Games to a mere top-10 list is a daunting task and many have to be left out.

In a 2015 NHL draft overshadowed by the huge publicity drawn by the top two picks 鈥� Connor McDavid of the Oilers and Jack Eichel of the Sabres 鈥� it鈥檚 easy to dismiss everybody else taken as a mere afterthought, even the rest of the first-rounders.

Michelle Kim was the story heading into the sa国际传媒 Junior Girls鈥� Championship at Cordova Bay Golf Course, but young, petite Akari Hayashi has stolen the show two rounds into the provincial event.

VICTORIA 8 KITSAP 2 Everything old was new again for the Victoria HarbourCats in Wednesday night鈥檚 8-2 West Coast League baseball victory over Kitsap BlueJackets before 1,398 fans.

The host Layritz team is one win away from locking down first place at the District 7 Little League major boys鈥� (ages 11-12) baseball championship.

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