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Five, games, five nights? No problem for the Thunder Bay North Stars.

The high school senior girls volleyball playoffs started Monday night and it was the end of the line for a pair of teams. Churchill rolled past St.

Brandon Wolframe, Kyle Lapenskie and Michael Orosey each scored twice Monday night, powering the Thunder Bay North Stars to fourth straight road win.

The Brennan Wark foursome just didn't have enough gas to knock off the week's No. 1 team in the final at the Canadian Men's Junior Curling Championship.

The road hasn't been the friendliest place this season for the Thunder Bay North Stars, but they've caught fire away from home of late.

Thunder Bay's Andrea Lee struck gold on Sunday. The National Development Centre skier captured top spot at the Haywood NorAm Canada Cup in Orford, Que., fighting through cold and win to hit the podium.

Devin Fullum scored the shootout winnner on Saturday to help the Thunder Bay North Stars complete a weekend sweep of the Dryden Ice Dogs. Fullum also scored a second-period power-play goal for the Stars, giving them a 2-1 lead at the time.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves have destiny in their own hands, but they didn't do themselves any favours this weekend.

Emma Brightwell will lead a contingent of 10 Lakehead wrestlers competing at the CIS championships later this month in Thunder Bay.

Adam Johnson continued to have his way with the OUA opposition and the Lakehead Thunderwolves are division champions again. Johnson scored 23 points and the Brock Badgers all but laid over and played dead on Saturday night, falling 90-46 to the No.