Sports

Nanaimo’s Pacific International League baseball team is picking up some victories as it gets closer to playoff time.

Today (July 14), 73 players from across the country will get on the bus in Nanaimo and head to Port Alberni for a five-day football camp. Right now, they resemble Raiders. By the time they come back, they’ll truly be Raiders.

The juniors lost 16-9 to the Victoria Shamrocks on the road Tuesday in Game 1 of their first-round B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League series.

Nanaimo’s junior women’s lacrosse team lost 5-0 to New Westminster on Sunday at the B.C. Lacrosse Association championships at Port Coquitlam.

All along, the Nanaimo Timbermen juniors knew it was probably going to come down to this – Nanaimo versus Victoria in the playoffs.

The Nanaimo Timbermen wanted it more than the opposition. The Coastal Windows Timbermen defeated the Coquitlam Adanacs 11-8 on Saturday in senior A Western Lacrosse Association action on the Lower Mainland.

Nanaimo’s Mark Valliere carded some of the best rounds at the B.C. Junior Boys’ Golf Championships last week.

The T-men were defeated 7-3 by the Cowichan Valley Thunder in Sunday’s Game 2 at the Nanaimo Ice Centre and are eliminated from the Pacific North West Junior Lacrosse League playoffs.

The regular season ended with a loss, but the junior A Nanaimo Timbermen were all smiles afterward.

The Hub City Paving Pirates swept the Vancouver Cannons on Saturday at the Serauxmen Sports Fields but got swept the next day by the Abbotsford Cardinals at Serauxmen Stadium.