Chargers golf win gold, coach nominated for Coach of the Year<\/strong> Camosun Chargers volleyball win openers<\/strong> Royals stopping hunger by stopping pucks<\/strong> Soccer legend launching autobiography<\/strong> Chargers golf win gold, coach nominated for Coach of the Year Thanksgiving weekend saw the Camosun College Chargers golf team win the 2011 PACWEST Golf title and it also marked the announcement of the nomination of head coach John Randle for the CCAA national golf coach of the year award. The final tournament decided the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-october192011"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Thanksgiving weekend saw the Camosun College Chargers golf team win the 2011 PACWEST Golf title and it also marked the announcement of the nomination of head coach John Randle for the CCAA national golf coach of the year award. The final tournament decided the 2011 PACWEST division winners and Camosun\u2019s golf team managed to win with a total of 2,355\u2014just four strokes less than Fraser Valley. \u201cIt was great to accomplish our first goal of the season,\u201d said Randle in a recent press release. \u201cIt was great to see everyone step up to the plate.\u201d Camosun\u2019s next goal will be to win nationals, and once the three-day tournament finishes the closing ceremonies will also see the announcement of this year\u2019s head coach winner.<\/p>\n
\nBoth the Camosun College Chargers men\u2019s and women\u2019s volleyball teams won their season openers on Thursday, October 13 against the College of the Rockies Avalanche. Victoria native Elizabeth Davis led the women\u2019s team with eight kills and five digs. Fourth-year right-side Andrew Inglis led the men\u2019s team in his first appearance with the Chargers, posting 10 kills, two digs, one block, and one ace. Women\u2019s set scores: 25-19, 25-19, 25-22. Men\u2019s set scores: 25-22, 25-20, 25-16.<\/p>\n
\nThe Victoria Royals recently announced the launch of their Stop Hunger campaign. One pound of non-perishable food items will be donated to the Mustard Seed Food Bank for every save made by a Victoria Royals goaltender\u2014during both home and away games\u2014with the season goal being one ton of food donated. Fans wishing to participate can donate non-perishable food items to the Select Your Tickets box office, which will in turn make fans eligible for a walkup ticket discount of $3.<\/p>\n
\nPresident of the Vancouver Whitecaps and former Vancouver \u201886er coach and player Bob Lenarduzzi has a new autobiography coming out. Both Lenarduzzi and sports writer Jim Taylor will be appearing at an event at the Greater Victoria Public Library on October 25 at 7 pm to launch the book, which chronicles Lenarduzzi\u2019s life in soccer, from playing with his brothers in East Vancouver to playing professional soccer in the UK and beyond. Lenarduzzi will also touch on the future of soccer in Canada and what it was like to play on the first Canadian team to make it to a FIFA World Cup final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"