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The three-time defending champion St. Ignatius Falcons were at it again on Thursday, kicking off the 2014 junior boy’s football season with an easy win. Alex Gingras rushed for a pair of touchdown scores apiece as the Falcons trampled the St.

It was a tough start for the Thunder Bay Kings in Day 1 play in the Northern American Prospects Hockey League at the Schwan Super Rinks in Blaine, Minn.

THUNDER BAY QUEENS HOCKEY www.thunderbayqueens.com THUNDER BAY – The Thunder Bay Queens will have teams in action, at home and away, this weekend.

SSSAA results for Wednesday, Sept. 23 Team Golf Playoffs (Round One - Elimination Round) (4)Westgate 2 (5)Hammarskjold 1 WCVI 2-2-1 HHS: 0-4-0 Eliminated

Goalie Mackenzie Blackwood was one of seven players sent back to junior on Wednesday by the New Jersey Devils.

Entering his third campaign as the head coach of the Lakehead Thunderwolves hockey team, Bill McDonald knows this year’s group is the closest thing he’s had to a blank slate.

SSSAA results for Tuesday, Sept. 22 Girls Golf Tournament at Strathcona G.C. 1. Selina Felice (HHS) 2. Kaleigh Stezenko (STP) 3. Aidan Hole (SWC) 4. Faith Norton (HHS) Varsity Girls Basketball Superior 48 St.

Matt Murray was perfect coming on in relief for the Pittsburgh Penguins Tuesday night.

NOLALU -- Kevin Monteith has been racing his way around North America’s dirt tracks for more than three decades.

THUNDER BAY -- Tallon Morris and his teammates are a hardware-hopeful bunch. Entering his fifth and final year of high school and yet to win a Superior Secondary School Athletics Association football crown, Morris and company want to go out on top.