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Two wins over the top team in the North Division has the Thunder Bay Border Cats thinking they just might be able to salvage the first half of their Northwoods League season.

The Sault Ste. Marie-to-Thunder Bay hockey pipeline has come through again for the Lakehead Thunderwolves. On Thursday the university team announced that 5-foot-8 defenceman Mike Quesnele has committed to play at the school starting in September.

Theoren Fleury spent more than two decades running from his past. He's finished hiding.

Alex Auld doesn’t spend much time in one place these days.

While Graeme McDowell was busy capturing his first U.S. Open title on Father’s Day, Walter Keating Jr. and Mark Willianen were creating their own magic on the golf course.

The good news is the Border Cats have raised their team average 16 points in two games. The bad news is they’ve give up 26 runs. On Saturday it was an eighth-inning meltdown that cost them a shot at victory.

Ryan Parent is heading back to Nashville.

Tony Colistro learned a valuable lesson on Saturday night – stick with what works. A night after trouncing the Des Moines Menace 7-2, the Thunder Bay Chill coach tweaked his starting lineup for the rematch, with much less satisfying results.

The Border Cats bats finally came alive on Friday night, but despite scoring double digits for the first time this year, the team still wound up on the losing end of yet another Northwoods League contest.

The Des Moines Menace are the defending Heartland Division champions, but one wouldn’t know it judging by their performance Friday night.