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Category Archive: Sports

Lady Vees look toward the future

By Ron Guillet The Laurentian Lady Vees’ basketball team did not make the playoffs, but that was never the expectation as the team boasts a young core brimming with potential. The Lady Vees finished the season with a 4-18 record with a team that had several new additions compared to[…]

Voyageurs gain valuable playoff experience 

By Ron Guillet The Laurentian Voyageurs’ basketball team wrapped up its season on Feb.25, and it was one for the Laurentian history books. The Voyageurs finished with an 11-11 record on the regular season and finished fourth in the East division to secure its first home playoff game in the[…]

Wolves season preview 2011-12

By Andy Veilleux The general consensus among reporters and those close with the Sudbury Wolves is that the team will be better next season, granted a few “if’s” get answered. The biggest “if” for the team starts between the pipes. Veteran goaltender Alain Valiquette will not return to the team,[…]

Laurentian to add wrestling program

By Ron Guillet The Laurentian University Voyageur Athletics will be adding men’s and women’s wrestling teams to its varsity sports program this September. While wrestling has been an Ontario Universities Athletics program since 1947, this will be its debut in Sudbury as a post-secondary sport. And the Voyageurs have wasted[…]

Lady Vees import b-ball recruits

By Ron Guillet The Laurentian Lady Vees’ basketball team won’t have its two star players on the roster next season, but head coach Mike Clarke is confident the new squad can compete in the Eastern Conference. The Lady Vees have lost six players from last year’s roster, which includes Katie[…]

Major comeback; Mississauga eliminates Sudbury

By John Langdon The Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors are showing signs that they are championship material in these playoffs. After finishing off the Belleville Bulls in four straight games, the OHL regular season champions handed the Sudbury Wolves the same destiny on Wednesday night with a 4-3 overtime win to[…]

Majors overpower Wolves

By John Langdon The Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors took a commanding 3-0 series lead in the OHL Eastern Conference Semifinal with a 6-3 win over the Sudbury Wolves Tuesday night at the Hershey Centre. Jordan Mayer led the Majors with 2 goals and 1 assist while earning the game’s first-star[…]

Wolves fall to Majors, trail series 2-0

JP Anderson makes a save on Andrey Kuchin in OHL playoff action Sunday night. Photo by Andy Veilleux. By John Langdon Despite a 60 save performance from goaltender Alain Valiquette, the Sudbury Wolves failed to pull out a win at home Sunday night as the Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors stormed[…]

Wolves complete sweep

By John Langdon Wolves fans can bust out the brooms. The Sudbury Wolves accomplished the unthinkable by sweeping the second seeded Ottawa 67’s 4-0 in the OHL Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with a 5-3 road win Thursday night. Michael Sgarbossa and Josh McFadden scored goals 0:58 apart for Sudbury who[…]

Wolves take stranglehold on series

By John Langdon The Sudbury Wolves are on the brink of upsetting the second seeded Ottawa 67’s after Mike Lomas scored the game-winning goal 33 seconds into overtime of Game #3 to give the seventh seeded Wolves a commanding 3-0 series lead in the OHL Eastern Conference Quarterfinal. Lomas buried[…]