Local Sports

The Thunder Bay Border Cats have scheduled a news conference for Tuesday to discuss the future of the franchise.

Thunder Bay’s Kyle Tront had three assists, helping the host Windsor Lancers to an upset 5-1 win over the Lakehead Thunderwolves on Friday night.

Mike Quesnele isn’t the biggest player on the ice, but good things come in small packages. Make that great things.

Local mixed martial artists were 1-for-2 on Friday night. Matt Veal defeated Winnipeg’s Alex Ferrer on a TKO referee stoppage, 82 seconds into his Canadian Fighting Championship bout at the Winnipeg Convention Centre.

Oct. 8 – A five-goal second period proved pivotal as the Nipigon Elks rolled over the Screaming Eagles 10-2 Friday in their Thunder Bay Jr. B/Juvenile/AAA Hockey League home opener at the Nipigon Community Centre.

In their first game of the Eric Garland tournament in Fredericton, N.B. on Friday, the Lakehead Thunderwolves handily defeated the host UNB Varsity Reds 80-62.

It was the Devin Van Elburg show on Friday. The Sir Winston Churchill quarterback tossed two touchdowns through the air and scored another on the ground, leading the Trojans to a 27-7 over winless Superior Collegiate in senior boys football play.

Spencer Hogan scored twice late in the third period to erase a 2-1 Fort Frances lead, as the Fort William North Stars came from behind to score a 4-2 victory Friday night in Superior International Junior Hockey League play.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves lost a pair of early games to Waterloo last season and it cost them top spot in the OUA West. It very may well cost them again.

Matt Caria, Ryan McDonald and Adam Sergerie were a three-man wrecking crew last weekend.