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The Lakehead Thunderwolves women's basketball team has to be hoping their final preseason tune up won't be a sign of things to come in the regular season.

Nathan Bruyere may be a rookie, but he’s got an Al MacInnis-like slapshot. It was on full display in the third period Saturday night. The Eagle Lake, Ont.

Katelyn Andrea scored a quarter of Lakehead’s points Saturday evening. Unfortunately she only managed 12.

Even at 13, Hunter Campbell knows playing football has helped him become a better person. Campbell first started playing the game at the age of six with the Thunder Bay Minor Football Association, and it has quickly become his favourite sport.

The Winnipeg Wesmen started with a 9-0 run and never looked back. Paced by 13 points from Kerri Kuzbyt, including three three-pointers, the host Wesmen cruised to an 88-63 pre-season win Friday night in CIS women’s basketball play.

Led by 14 points from fifth-year forward Steven Wesley, the Winnipeg Wesmen cruised to a 75-64 win Friday night over the visiting Lakehead Thunderwolves.

Cody Alcock knew the goals would eventually come. When they did, they came in bunches. The Oshawa, Ont.

At halftime, things weren’t looking so great for the St. Ignatius Falcons. Trailing the upset-minded Hammarskjold Vikings 20-0, the turnover-prone Falcons looked nothing like a 4-1 squad fighting for top spot in the senior high school circuit.

Now the true test begins for the St. Ignatius Falcons. The junior football squad did all its scoring Thursday in the first half, notching four touchdowns in the first 30 minutes of play and went on to a 28-0 win over the Westgate Tigers.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves knew what they had in Mike Hammond. A point-a-game player his first two seasons, the team plan to lean heavily on the junior forward in the absence of much of last season’s scoring power.