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Defence wins championships. It’s something Thunder Bay Chill head coach Tony Colistro has told his players since the beginning of the season. And with the squad now heading to Pontiac, Mich.

A disastrous seventh pushed the Thunder Bay Border Cats one game further back in the Northwoods League pennant race.

Patrick Sharp is looking to make a deal. It appears the Chicago Blackhawks are willing to accommodate their versatile star forward, who is coming off a career-best 71-point season, despite missing eight games with an injured knee.

A late game rally helped the Cats stomp the Beetles Monday night. The Border Cats rallied for five runs over the final two innings to knock off the Beetles 10-6 in Alexandria.

It's down to the final four, and Thunder Bay's Port Arthur Stadium is still in the running to be named Canada’s favourite baseball park.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves hockey team received its ninth commitment of this recruiting year with the addition of forward Keith Grondin of Winnipeg.

Jordee Matson finally won the Scotia McLeod Mid Canada Open. The 17-year-old tennis player competed at the 2011 tournament at the Thunder Bay Community Tennis Centre.

Anne Lahtinen reeled in the top prize at the second annual weeklong Salmon Derby on Saturday.

The Thunder Bay Chill are Heartland Division champions once again. The Premier Development League squad scored a 5-2 win over the Real Colorado on Saturday night, vaulting past the Foxes in both teams' final regular season game of 2011.

Cullen Mahoney and David Fallon scored three times and Brett Kay finally pulled himself over the Mendoza line with four hits and three RBI in the Border Cats 8-6 win over Rochester on the road Friday night.