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Mitch Fillman may not have played the Western Mustangs yet, but he knew long before he arrived in Thunder Bay there would likely be no more important regular season series for the Lakehead Thunderwolves.

The St. Patrick Fighting Saints are having a rough season of senior boys basketball. The Hammarskjold Vikings definitely weren't the cure.

A weekend split appears to have helped, not hurt the Lakehead Thunderwolves men’s basketball team in the weekly CIS rankings.

The St. Ignatius Falcons left no doubt on Monday who was the better curling team. The Falcons hammered the Hammarskjold Vikings 15-0 in one of two senior high school boys matches, improving to 2-0. The Vikings fell to 0-2-1 with the loss.

A wrap-up of game action in the Thunder Bay Junior B Hockey League over the weekend saw the Jr. B Stars and Northern Hawks post victories.

It was a promising start for a team desperately seeking their first win of the season.

If the Fort Frances Lakers want to make a charge at first place in the SIJHL standings, they need to start winning when they take on the Wisconsin Wilderness. That didn't happen Saturday night.

You win some and you lose some. It's just the losses aren't supposed to come at the hands of teams like the cellar-dwelling Ontario Tech Ridgebacks.

It's off to the championship final for the Thunder Bay Winning Streak Charters Bantam AA Queens. On Saturday the Queens outshot Elk River 40-1 through two periods, but were tied 1-1 heading into the third.

Venzal Russell had a chance to send the game to overtime, but a buzzer-beating three-pointed bounced off the rim, leaving the Lakehead Thunderwolves to settle for a weekend split against the host Laurier Golden Hawks. The No.