Sports

By Richard Coffin Two local youth bowlers from Partners Billiards and Bowling in North Bay are heading to nationals in Edmonton in early May.  Mya Labonté and Marley Pedskalny (pictured above) won gold in the Bantam Girls team division at the Northern Ontario Provincials in Dryden on the weekend.  They

The Ottawa 67’s served notice Friday night that they’re not done in the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference playoff chase. Filip Ekberg scored two goals to lead Ottawa to a 5-2 victory over the North Bay Battalion, pulling the 67’s within three points of the eighth

Jordan Fitger had the game’s first and final goals, and supplied an assist in between, to help lead the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners to a 5-3 win over the Powassan Voodoos Friday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League encounter at the Powassan Sportsplex. Striking first, Kirkland Lake got

Porter Martone scored at 4:36 of overtime to lift the Brampton Steelheads to a 2-1 victory over the North Bay Battalion in a fiercely contested Ontario Hockey League game Thursday night. Gabriel Chiarot had the other goal and goaltender Jack Ivankovic provided 38 saves for Brampton, which moved its

Brady Martin scored two goals and added three assists to power the Soo Greyhounds to a 6-3 victory Tuesday night over the North Bay Battalion in an Ontario Hockey League game with playoff ramifications for both teams. Marco Mignosa had two goals and one assist, while Spencer Evans and Christopher

Mike McIvor of the North Bay Battalion has been named Goaltender of the Week for the period ended Sunday, the Ontario Hockey League announced Monday. McIvor won all three games he started, posting a 1.32 goals-against average and a .956 save percentage as the Battalion played entirely on the

By Richard Coffin Several North Bay Ski Racing Club athletes collected podium finishes at 9th Antoine Classic in Mattawa last weekend. Grant Park was first in U14 men’s slalom, Alisha Windsor was first in both women’s Special Olympics slalom and giant slalom. In U16 women’s, Lauren Moore

Jacob LeBlanc and Ihnat Pazii provided one goal and one assist apiece as the North Bay Battalion skated to a 5-1 victory Sunday over the Sarnia Sting, bolstering the Troops’ hold on the final playoff position in the Ontario Hockey League’s Eastern Conference. Andrew LeBlanc, Nick Wellenreiter and Parker

Returning to the win column with their initial on-ice victory of the month, the Powassan Voodoos got three goals from Cayden Kowal to down the Soo Thunderbirds 4-1 in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League contest Sunday afternoon at the Powassan Sportsplex. Needing just 77 seconds to take the lead,

A James Elliot goal deep into the second period proved to be the game-winner as the Soo Thunderbirds went on to defeat the Powassan Voodoos 4-2 Saturday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League contest at the Powassan Sportsplex. Visiting Sault Ste. Marie took the lead when Gage Evans took