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There was no Miracle on Miles Street for the York Lions on Saturday night.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves men’s basketball team has built a season of success around fourth quarter comebacks, but Friday night they were on the wrong end of one as they dropped a 60-59 game at the C. J. Sanders Fieldhouse in Thunder Bay.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves women’s basketball team’s quest to secure first round home court advantage in the OUA West playoffs got a bit more complicated Friday night as LU lost 67-51 to the Western Mustangs at the C. J. Sanders Fieldhouse.

Local mixed martial artist Nathan Gunn (7-1) will get his chance to avenge his first career loss later this month. The Thunder Bay welterweight will jump in the ring for the second time with the Alberta-based Maximum Fighting Championship promotion.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves will live to see another day.

At a hockey game, deafening silence is not what the players want to hear. To combat a repeat of last year, when hundreds of tickets went unsold for the Cavendish University Cup, the Lakehead Thunderwolves have set out to put student bums in seats.

Tyler Harrison got a weird bounce and fired a wrist shot past Kyle Moir 15:31 into double overtime, giving the York Lions a 3-2 win on a night rife with upsets as the OUA men’s hockey playoffs got under way.

Thunder Bay’s Haley Irwin had a goal and an assist and Meghan Agosta netted five points for the second time in three outings, leading Canada to a 13-1 romp over Sweden in Olympic women’s hockey on Wednesday.

The Wisconsin Mustangs want to put the International back in the Superior International Junior Hockey League on a permanent basis. The Spooner, Wis.

The province is not seriously considering allowing mixed martial arts competition in Ontario, the Canadian Press reported Wednesday.