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For five seasons, goalkeeper Kaitlyn Williams guarded the University of Victoria field hockey net like a momma bear protecting her cubs.

The host Chilliwack Chiefs play feature games on Friday and Saturday nights, Sept. 25 and 26, in the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hockey League Bauer Showcase. The former is against the defending league champion Penticton Vees and the latter against the Victoria Grizzlies.

KITSAP 6 VICTORIA 2 All good things must come to an end. It did Wednesday night for Victoria HarbourCats ace Alex Rogers (3-1), who suffered his first loss of the West Coast League season.

It won’t show up on the pocket schedule.

Age will take its toll on the largely veteran Canadian women’s soccer team following the cycle that includes the ongoing 2015 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics next year.

Mark Long The Associated Press Confederate flags are as easy to find at NASCAR races as cutoff jeans, cowboy hats and beer. They fly over motor homes. They adorn clothing.

VICTORIA 5 KITSAP 4 Victoria HarbourCats closer Josh Mitchell earned his keep the hard way Tuesday night in Bremerton, Washington.

This summer stage of the process is strangely vague for Joe Hicketts of the Victoria Royals, even after winning gold with sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ at the 2015 world junior hockey championship.

It won’t make up for losing to the U.S. this month in the North American/Caribbean Olympic qualifier for Rio 2016.

Perhaps it was only fitting it happened on a Sunday, because Jon Harnett of the Victoria Shamrocks did his best Malcolm Butler impression.