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It’s off to the senior girls basketball final for the St. Ignatius Falcons. The Falcons on Tuesday won the Page Playoff 1-2 quarterfinal, the 32-26 squeaker over Sir Winston Churchill earning them a direct bye into the championship game.

Matt Caria looks like a man on a mission this season. Ten games into the current hockey campaign and the Sault Ste. Marie native tops the nation in scoring with 19 points, four more than his nearest rival.

Thunder Bay North Star forward Quinn Rempel is the Pizza Hut player of the week. In three games this past week the 19-year-old native of Salmon Arm, B.C.

Lakehead's wresting team came out of the McMaster Invitational in the top 10 teams at the tournament, edging out Guelph and Western to finish seventh.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves hung with the MacMaster Marauders through four sets, but couldn't pull out the win in the fifth and deciding match. The volleyball squad fell 15-6 Sunday in the final set, falling to 0-6 on the season.

The top team in the Thunder Bay Junior B Hockey League standings has returned from a two-game weekend set in Schreiber with a couple more victories to their credit posting impressive wins over the Falcons.

It was close, but no cigar for the LU basketball women on Saturday night. Owners of a six-point halftime lead and a 12-point third-quarter advantage, the Wolves couldn’t hold it against the Minot State Beavers, falling 76-74 in overtime.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves will look to start a new winning streak next weekend when the Guelph Gryphons come to town.

Steve Chelios is like a lot of hockey coaches – always on the lookout for new talent. The younger brother of future NHL hall-of-famer Chris Chelios, Steve Chelios has a simple wish list: four or five players who can play the game of hockey.

The winless trek continued on Saturday for Lakehead University’s women’s basketball team. The Wolves once again fell in straight sets, this time to the Guelph Gryphons, and fell to a disappointing 0-5 in OUA play in 2011-12.