Local Sports

On Saturday’s senior night, the Lakehead Thunderwolves women’s volleyball team came up big, beating the RMC Paladins 3-1 at the C. J. Sanders Fieldhouse in Thunder Bay. Set scores were 25-23, 23-25, 25-20 and 25-14.

The Lakehead women’s basketball team’s alone time at third in the OUA West was short lived as they lost 68-62 to the Brock Badgers, Saturday night at St. Catharines, Ontario.

Haley Irwin made her Olympic hockey debut an impressive one. The Thunder Bay forward scored twice as Canada demolished Slovakia 18-0 in its first game of the Vancouver Games.

Jordan Smith potted the OT winner Saturday night to lead the Lakehead Thunderwolves to a come-from-behind 3-2 road victory over the last-place Brock Badgers.

Head coach Jon Kreiner and his Lakehead Thunderwolves women’s basketball team took a big step towards hosting their first playoff home game since 1999 as they beat the Brock Badgers 71-57 on Friday night at St. Catharines.

With two of Brock’s three leading scorers sidelined, the No. 8 Lakehead Thunderwolves men’s basketball team took full advantage, winning by a one-sided 64-45 margin, Friday night at St. Catharines, Ontario.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves women’s volleyball team made sure that RMC’s winning ways were short-lived, Friday night as they beat the Paladins 3-1 at the C. J. Sanders Fieldhouse in Thunder Bay.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves threw everything but an anvil at Laurier goaltender Jeff MacDougald, but it was the Hawks who flattened the visitors in a 4-2 Friday night win at Waterloo. The No.

Winning is half of what local mixed martial artist David Letourneau hopes to do in his MFC debut later this month.

Head coach Kip Sigsworth and his Lakehead Thunderwolves track and field team will head across the Canada-US border this weekend to Duluth, Minn., for the St. Scholastica-hosted Lake Superior Challenge, Saturday, Feb. 13.