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Steals in the fifth, sixth and seventh ends powered Thunder Bay’s Cody Johnston to his first win Sunday at the Canadian junior men’s curling championship in Calgary.

A four-point second end proved too much for the Krista McCarville to recover from in Sunday’s Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts final.

Krista McCarville won’t have much time to collect her thoughts, but the Thunder Bay skip is OK with that.

Thunder Bay’s Justin Gvora was a one-man wrecking crew. Too bad for the Lakehead Thunderwolves his destructive ways were aimed at them.

Andy Shields just missed qualifying Saturday for the one-on-one sprint heats the world junior Nordic skiing championships in Estonia. Shields, a Kitchener native who skis for the National Development Centre-Thunder Bay, missed qualifying by 0.

Matt Caria had an assist, but Team Canada did not fare as well at the World University Games on Saturday, dropping a 3-2 shootout decision to Belarus.

Destiny, meet the Lakehead Thunderwolves men’s basketball team. Just don’t get too familiar, says coach Scott Morrison, whose players still have plenty of work to do before patting themselves on the back.

It wasn’t the start the Cody Johnston rink was looking for in Calgary.

Krista McCarville and Sudbury’s Tracy Horgan will meet on Sunday to decide who takes on Ottawa’s Rachel Homan for the right to represent the province next month at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

The Windsor Lancers could have not scored a single point in the second half on Saturday night and still walked away with a three-point victory. It was just one of those nights for the Lakehead Thunderwolves women’s basketball team.