Sports

A long week-and-a-half of hockey has come to an end for me.
A good experience, I believe, for all was had at the HNO U-16 POE tournament. It saw six teams from the Ontario branches that fall under Hockey Canada bring their top 1995-born players to showcase them for the selection of the Team Ontario U-16 team.

It was a tough go for Team Northwestern Ontario at the 2010 U-16 prospects’ hockey tournament in Kitchener over the weekend.
The regional squad lost all six of its games at the tournament, which is designed to allows players from across the province to showcase their skills in an attempt to join Team Ontario at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax in February.

The regional boys’ volleyball team broke a 20-year drought at the Ontario Summer Games in Sudbury last week.
Three local players—Jacob Hawley, Brandon McGinnis, and Gavin Moorhouse—were part of Team Northwestern’s first match win in two decades, with the squad returning home with a pair of victories en route to a sixth-place finish.

Local swimmer Donovan Taylor collected a quartet of medals at the Ontario Summer Games in Sudbury last week, earning two silvers and a pair of bronze over the three days of competition.
The 16-year-old member of the Fort Frances Aquanauts grabbed silver in both the 400m I.M. (4:59.44) and 200m I.M. (2:19.76), meeting his own high expectations in those two events.

Late-game heroics were the order of the day for the Sight & Sound Wolves at the North American Fastpitch Association’s World Series in Des Moines, Iowa last week.

The Muskies are hoping touch football was the answer.
Incoming head coach Chad Canfield, who started the Sunday afternoon program, noted the games have unearthed some younger players interested in joining the black-and-gold for the upcoming season—and should boost numbers from the brink of disaster into a comfortable territory.

With the nucleus of the three-time defending champion Domino’s team still intact, the newly-minted Manitou Forest Products crew (11-1-4 during the regular season) was looking for a “four-peat” in Borderland men’s soccer action Thursday evening at the St. Francis Sports Fields.

It was fitting that in a season where there hadn’t been too much separation between the teams that the championship game ended up the same way.

After an encouraging start at the North American Fastpitch Association World Series in Des Moines, Iowa over the weekend, the Sight & Sound Wolves couldn’t keep the trend going forward.
Faced with tough opponents on Thursday (the tournament’s opening day), the Wolves won their first two games in the A-Major division.