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Tom Pyatt has a new two-year extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The NHL team re-inked the Thunder Bay forward to the one-way, $600,000-a-year deal on Monday, locking him up through 2013-14.

Thunder Bay's Brennan Wark is heading to the Canadian Junior Men's Curling Championship. Wark on Sunday scored a 7-3 win over Sudbury's Dustin Montpelier foursome at the Atikokan Curling Club to capture the Northern Ontario crown.

The Thunder Bay Junior B Hockey League saw a pair of games on the slate Saturday with the Northern Hawks and Nipigon Elks picking up home ice victories.

Byron Katapaytuk and Jaret Leclair scored in the final two minutes of regulation on Saturday and the host Fort Frances Lakers pulled out a 3-1 win over the Thunder Bay North Stars.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves spent most of their game Saturday trailing the Waterloo Warriors.

The Western Mustangs switched out three of their starters from Friday night, and for 20 minutes it appeared to work. Then Venzal Russell took over.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again. That's the philosophy Lindsay Druery took into the final 1.9 seconds of the Lakehead Thunderwolves women's basketball game Saturday night against the Western Mustangs.

Alannah MacLean wasn't too worried about winning on Saturday. The Newfoundland-born, Sudbury-raised cross country skier had a simpler goal in mind, a day before leaving Thunder Bay for Whistler, B.C.

Karlee Jones won the battle of Thunder Bay on Friday night, and remains the only undefeated team at the Northern Ontario junior women's provincial curling championship.

Thunder Bay's Jordan Potter and Brennan Wark continue to roll along at the Northern Ontario junior men's curling provincials in Atikokan.