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The Thunder Bay North Stars started out like gangbusters. The finished like a team that knew it was hanging on for dear life.

The St. Ignatius senior girls held the halftime lead, but faded in the third and fourth and were eliminated at the high school basketball AA championship on Friday.

The true test comes Saturday night. Not that Friday’s match against Ottawa on the Gee-Gees home court didn’t give the Lakehead Thunderwolves all they could handle in OUA men’s basketball play.

They certainly weren’t the beasts of the east. The No. 9-ranked Lakehead Thunderwolves stormed into Montreal on Friday night and laid an 11-2 beating on the second-place Concordia Stingers.

The comeback kids were at it again on Friday night. Lakehead University’s women’s basketball team stormed back in the fourth quarter on the road in Ottawa, erasing a three-point deficit to beat the host Gee-Gees 52-48.

With $200,000 left to raise for the Special Olympics Ontario Winter Games that are coming to Thunder Bay in January 2011, a corporate sponsorship from Royal Bank of Canada is welcomed news.

It’s off to the OFSAA quarterfinals for the St. Ignatius senior girls basketball team.

Dezi LeGallais had four points, including a second period natural hat-trick, to help lead the Jr. B Stars to an 8-3 victory over the Screaming Eagles in a penalty-filled Thunder Bay Jr.

The Thunder Bay North Stars scored one more goal than the Fort Frances Lakers did in the first. The rest of the way it was even-Steven.

The Westgate Tigers have lost their bid to bring the Northern Bowl back to Thunder Bay.