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The Thunderwolves’ Cross Country teams opened up their season this weekend at the 26th Annual Roy Griak Invitational.

Rick Bragnalo, Tom Alexander and Scott Timmerman highlight the 2011 class of athletes being inducted Saturday into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.

There were plenty of new faces in the lineup for the Lakehead Thunderwolves, but the result didn’t change from the last time fans packed Fort William Gardens to watch them play.

Facing a stiff test taking on NCAA Division 1 competition, the Thunder Bay Sportop midget AA Queens dropped a 10-3 decision to the Bemidji State Beavers in an exhibition contest Friday evening at the Sanford Center in Bemidji, Minn.

The Thunder Bay North Stars are in unfamiliar territory. Two games into the 2010-11 season, and the Superior International Junior Hockey League franchise is still without a win.

It was a simple, but effective game plan on Friday by the Westgate Tigers.

The Thunder Bay Junior B Hockey League announced the schedule for the upcoming Joe Ward Memorial preseason tournament. The tournament is scheduled to take place between Sept 29 and Oct. 2 at the Tournament Centre in Thunder Bay.

St. Ignatius’s Katelyn Andrea kicked off the senior girls high school basketball season in style, leading the Falcons to a 44-13 win over Superior Collegiate. Andrea collected 21 points in the lopsided win.

George Bernard Shaw once wrote that youth is wasted on the young. Lakehead Thunderwolves coach Joel Scherban is about to find out.

When Kenya’s Gilbert Kiptoo saw fellow countryman Philip Kipchumba stopped to tie his shoes he took his chance to win the inaugural Thunder Bay Miles With the Giant Marathon.