Local Sports

Luke Judson is coming home. Well, close enough. The Emo, Ont. native confirmed on Monday that he’ll suit up next season with the Lakehead Thunderwolves.

Fort Frances forward Byron Katapaytak is up for the RBC Junior Hockey player of the year award.

Thunder Bay’s Norm Maciver is the new assistant general manager of the Chicago Blackhawks.

Matt Lapointe eats, sleeps and breathes mountain biking. “If I’m not at work, I’m usually on my bike,” says the group ride co-ordinator for the Black Sheep Mountain Bike Club .

When horses get ready to run the most exciting two minutes in sports on Saturday, Thunder Bay’s Claire Powell will be one of very few people allowed near them.

The Sioux Lookout Flyers have found their man. Former Thunder Bay Flyers star Derek Levanen has been tapped by the Superior International Junior Hockey League franchise to step behind their bench in 2012-13, taking over for the deposed Brad Zangs.

Thunder Bay’s Kelsey DeGrazia, 11, will represent Northern Ontario at the 2012 Youth Bowling Canada five pin National Championships in St. John`s, Newfoundland. The national championships takes place from May 5 to 7.

A private entrepreneur is on the fast track to bringing stock car racing back to the Oliver Paipoonge area. The last dirt track racing in the Thunder Bay district closed about nine years ago.

Despite a furious third period comeback attempt the Thunder Bay Sportop Queens run for a second Esso Cup Canadian National Female Midget Hockey Championship fell just short Saturday as they dropped a hard-fought 4-2 decision to the Pembina Valley Haw

The Thunder Bay Sportop Queens will play for the Esso Cup Canadian National Female Midget Hockey Championship Saturday in Charlottetown, P.E.I.