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Topping last season won’t be easy for the National Training Development Centre Thunder Bay Nordic ski team.

Six straight wins have vaulted the Lakehead Thunderwolves hockey team into the top 10 in the national rankings. The Wolves (6-2-0), who take on Laurier on the road this weekend, were slotted eighth when the weekly list was unveiled on Tuesday.

The Superior International Junior Hockey League announced Monday that Jordan Shockley of the Duluth Clydesdales has been named Pizza Hut player of the week for the period ending Oct. 30.

The losing continues for the Thunderwolves women.

It only took the Lakehead Thunderwolves 11 seconds to realize this was going to be a different Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks squad.

The Thunders Bay Sportop Midget AA Queens are off to a good start at the Shattuck St. Mary’s under-19 tournament in Minnesota. The Queens handily won their opener, beating Team Wisconsin 5-1 on Friday night.

Chris Hoffman scored the equalizer in the second, then the lone goal in the shootout, leading the Sioux Lookout Flyers on Friday to a 4-3 win over the first-place Fort Frances Lakers.

The volleyball season did not start on a winning note Friday for the Lakehead Thunderwolves women.

The University of Victoria opened the third quarter Friday night on a 12-5 run and never looked back, defeating the visiting Lakehead Thunderwolves women’s basketball team 70-56.

Mike Judge and the Hammarskjold Vikings know what they have to do. After losing 13-7 to the St.