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Lakehead University basketball coach Scott Morrison earlier this spring hinted he’d be looking south for his final recruit.

The Cardiac Kids are back. Only this time around they’re playing in Thunder Bay, not Philadelphia, scoring late in games to secure wins that in years gone by almost always ended up in the defeat column.

Thunder Bay native and former Border Cats starting pitcher Eric Brown has been drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Rochester Honkers may be at the bottom of the Northwoods League standings, but never count the perennial powerhouse franchise out.

More than 1,000 enturisastic fans watched as the Thunder Bay Border Cats scratched their way to a 1-0 win in the season’s home opener Monday against the Rochester Honkers.

Kevin Taylor ended a see-saw battle Sunday with a run-scoring single in the eighth inning that gave the Thunder Bay Border Cats a 3-2 mark on their season-opening road trip.

It was a night the Thunder Bay Border Cats pitching staff would rather forget.

When defender Sean Reynolds learned he would be playing soccer in Northern Ontario this summer, he did what many Floridians might do. “I actually bought a parka to bring here,” he said with a smile stretching across his face.

A four-RBI performance by Kevin Taylor and six innings of four-hit, shutout ball by starter Jon Carlson have the Thunder Bay Border Cats over .500 with a series victory under their belts.

Evan Weibel had two hits and a pair of RBI on Thursday night, pacing the Thunder Bay Border Cats to their first victory of the 2011 season.