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The Alexandria Beetles made six errors and five pitchers combined to allow 13 runs Thursday night. Sounds like an easy win for the Thunder Bay Border Cats. Think again.

Lakehead University’s Alasdair Brown is in the 1,500-metre final at the Canadian Track and Field Trials in Calgary.

Scott Donley drove in the tying run in the top of the ninth, but the Thunder Bay Border cats wouldn’t hold off the host Alexandria Beetles on Wednesday afternoon.

Alaistair Brown knows he’s a long-shot to make the Canadian Olympic track team.

It really wasn’t worth the wait. The Thunder Bay Border Cats, forced to play five games in three days after rain washed out Northwoods League competition earlier in the week, on Saturday ran out of gas.

In soccer, sometimes a single goal is all it takes to blow a game wide open.

Matt Murray said he had no idea the Pittsburgh Penguins were interested in him.

Northern Ontario is getting its own invitation to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, beginning in 2015. But there’s a catch to the women’s curling championship becoming a 15-team event.

The Thunder Bay Chill may be threatening to run away with the Heartland Division, but none of their challengers are about to hand them anything the easy way.

After putting up a stinker of a performance in the opener, the Thunder Bay Border Cats regrouped in the night-cap to earn a doubleheader split Friday with the visiting Waterloo Bucks.