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By Richard Coffin Three student athletes from Nipissing University are representing Canada at the FISU World University Games in Torino, Italy. Canada’s women’s hockey team, including Lakers’ forwards Madison Desmarais and Malory Dominico, are back on the ice Wednesday. They face off again Slovakia to wrap up Group

Rebounding from a multi-marker deficit, the Powassan Voodoos came back to knock off the Timmins Rock 5-3 in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League Sunday afternoon match-up at McIntyre Arena. Jack Kelly got the Rock on the board near the six-minute mark of the contest as he started a rush

Parker Vaughan scored at 4:48 of overtime to lift the North Bay Battalion to a 6-5 victory over the Brampton Steelheads in a back-and-forth Ontario Hockey League game Saturday. Ethan Procyszyn scored three goals, Jacob LeBlanc had one goal and four assists for a career-high five points and Andrew

The Hearst Lumberjacks stormed back from a trio of two-goal deficits before eventually striking twice late in regulation, then winning in overtime, to upend the Powassan Voodoos 5-4 in a thrilling Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League affair Saturday at Claude Larose Recreation Centre. The Lumberjacks pressed the pace in the

With a chance to make it a perfect weekend, the Nipissing University Lakers men's volleyball team was back on the court Saturday afternoon. The Lakers, coming off a five-set win, were hosting the Guelph Gryphons for the second time in as many days. The Lakers fell short in

Winners of eight in a row, the Nipissing University Lakers have a chance to make it double digits with two games left on the schedule in 2024. The Lakers played their second last game of the first half of the season Saturday afternoon when they took on the Queen'

The Powassan Voodoos have been busy at the CJHL trade deadline making some moves to improve their forward group.  The Voodoos added a pair of 18-year-old right shot skilled American born forwards as free agents prior to the January 10 deadline.   0:00 /1:22 1× Port Virtual offices business

Riley Clark scored the eventual winning goal as the Kingston Frontenacs defeated the North Bay Battalion 4-1 Thursday night in a game between teams that were active leading up to the Ontario Hockey League’s trade deadline. Matthew Soto, Cedrick Guindon and Tuomas Uronen, into an empty net, had a

Ethan Procyszyn has been appointed captain of the North Bay Battalion, the Ontario Hockey League club announced Thursday. Centre Procyszyn succeeds Owen Van Steensel, who was traded to the Barrie Colts on Sunday. Procyszyn, who turned 18 on July 11, has scored 21 goals and earned 15 assists for 36

The Ontario Hockey League’s North Bay Battalion has acquired two picks for a second-round choice in the OHL Priority Selection this April, it was announced Tuesday. North Bay got second- and fourth-rounders in 2028 from the Saginaw Spirit in exchange for a second in 2025 that originally belonged to