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They led through three quarters, but couldn’t hold on. The Lakehead Thunderwolves women’s basketball team dropped a 79-67 decision Saturday night south of the border to the Bemidji State Beavers in their penultimate pre-season contest.

The home cooking advantage had to give way at some point. Unfortunately for the Thunder Bay North Stars, it chose the final three minutes of the third period on Saturday night.

The weekend sweep is complete, but there’s still a lot of cleaning up to do, says Lakehead’s second-year men’s basketball coach.

Call Kris Hamlin the Mariano Rivera of the Superior International Junior Hockey League. He sure knows how to close a game. The last-place Thunder Bay North Stars forward scored the winning goal Friday night with just 0.

Lakehead’s woeful start to the OUA hockey season continued on Friday night. Not that a 5-1 loss wasn’t expected. After all, it was the No. 4-ranked McGill Redmen playing host.

After most 18-point wins, most basketball coaches are pretty happy. Manny Furtado isn’t most coaches.

The St. Ignatius Falcons know they’ll have a target on their backs when the high school football playoffs open next week.

Lakehead Athletics (Media Release) October 29, 2015 — Thunder Bay, Ont. Lakehead's cross country runners will leave it all out on the trails this Saturday at the OUA Championships, hosted by the University of Waterloo.

THUNDER BAY QUEENS HOCKEY (Media Release) www.thunderbayqueens.com THUNDER BAY – The Thunder Bay Goldcorp midget A Queens are off to Fort Frances this weekend to compete in the first annual Scott Clendenning Memorial Showcase.

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