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Two Island athletes who recorded their breakthrough first major Games medals last year in Glasgow at the Commonwealth Games will try to do it this summer on home soil at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto.

The math in baseball is brutally basic. Win each series you play on average 2-1, and you should make the playoffs.

HOUSTON 6 SEATTLE 2 SEATTLE — Thanks to some late offence and a strong performance by the bullpen, the Houston Astros headed off to Southern California with momentum for the final leg of their road trip.

Dave Dew of Victoria, the former assistant Canadian coach, can recite from memory the attendance numbers for sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½â€™s games in the 1995 Women’s World Cup in Sweden.

It is part baseball tale, part love story and part family fable at Royal Athletic Park as outfielder Jake Pries makes his Victoria HarbourCats debut this weekend.

With GM Steve Nash of Victoria about to unleash an NBA-laden Golden Generation Canadian team in 2016 Rio Summer Olympics qualifying, Steve Priolo got to thinking he made the right decision to switch from hoops to lacrosse.

On Canadian Forces Night at Royal Athletic Park on Friday, the Victoria HarbourCats and Cowlitz Black Bears both launched impressive attacks that went late into the night.

Power usually beats pesky.

With more than 50 athletes from here expected to compete in the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto next month, the Island could be its own country.

The defence never rests. At least it won’t for the Victoria Shamrocks. The Western Lacrosse Association club has added three stoppers ahead of tonight’s game against the Coquitlam Adanacs at The Q Centre in Colwood.