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Jordan Larson scored the winner in a shootout, propelling the host Fort Frances Flyers to a 4-3 opening day win over the Thunder Bay North Stars on Friday night.

Set to begin their fourth year in the SIJHL, the Sioux Lookout Flyers have a new look behind the bench as Brad Zangs was brought as the club's new head coach and general manager.

An original founding member of the SIJHL, the Ice Dogs will begin play in their 11th year on Saturday when they welcome the reigning Bill Salonen Cup champion Wisconsin Wilderness to Memorial Arena in a 7:30 p.m. start.

The Thunder Bay Border Cats confirmed Thursday that manager Mike Steed has resigned from his position with the Northwoods League ball club. The 41-year-old native of Burlington, Ont.

More than 700 people are set to run in the annual Miles with the Giant marathon this Sunday morning. Downtown Port Arthur will packed as participants gather to the start line before the 8 a.m. race.

Molly Carlson may be a future Olympian, but that doesn’t mean her diving coach, Mike Lang, doesn’t still think of his star protégé as a young girl.

Drew Childs is trying to one-up Deion Sanders. A former star with the now-defunct K&A Wolverines of the Superior International Junior Hockey League, the 22-year-old wound up in the suburbs of St. Louis on a golf scholarship.

An emergency appendectomy will sideline Thunder Bay’s Patrick Sharp for the first couple of weeks of the regular season. The Chicago Blackhawks forward is expected to miss up to a month, the NHL team said in release issued on Monday.

Marc Staal is keeping his ‘A’. The New York Rangers on Monday confirmed the Thunder Bay native will join newly acquired free-agent signee Brad Richards as one of two alternate captains.

Molly Carlson took home a fifth-place finish at the Pan-Am Junior Games in the three-metre springboard diving competition. The 12-year-old Thunder Bay native scored 299.80 at the Medillon, Colombia event on Sunday, placing her 16.