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The OUA’s playoff format is a tad confusing this season, but one thing's crystal clear: despite being slaughtered 95-40 by the Windsor Lancers, the Lakehead Thunderwolves are still alive in women’s basketball.

Nicole Plummer and Gaston Tardif came up a little shy on Saturday in their effort to bring home the gold at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national wrestling championships.

It took a spirited second-half comeback, but the Superior Collegiate Gryphons senior boys are NWOSSA basketball champions.

It wasn’t Fort Frances’s night in NWOSSAA play-downs on Friday. Playing host to St. Ignatius in senior girls volleyball action, the host squad fell 3-1, dropping the first two games 25-15 and 25-16 before rebounding to win game three 25-22.

Lakehead University is moving into the final day of the CIS national wrestling championships with a pair of golden opportunities.

It’s not the way Brock Curtis wanted Lakehead’s men’s team to enter the CIS national wrestling championships.

Anything Tasia McKenna can do, apparently Lindsay Druery can do better.

With more snow on the ground than they know what to do with, organizers of the Sleeping Giant Loppet have turned their attentions elsewhere in 2011.

There’s a bullseye on the backs of the Lakehead Thunderwolves jersey this season. Not surprisingly every team is gunning for last year’s OUA darlings, who reversed a decade-long losing trend to not only make the playoffs but succeed.

Alex Robichaud delivers when it counts.