Local Sports

There will be a one-game showdown to decide the fourth-and-final playoff spot in the senior division of the high school football league.

Several equestrian competitors from Sault Ste. Marie participated at a recently held provincial event and one local girl stood particularly tall in her saddle.

Amanda Evans sunk a free throw with one second left on the clock to lift the White Pines Wolverines to a frantic 40-39 win over the Mount St. Joseph Royals in senior girls high school basketball play on Thursday.

HOUNDS DEAL WITH STORM The Soo Greyhounds today traded 18-year old right-winger Brett Trudell to the Guelph Storm for 19-year old goalie Dwight LaBrosse and overage winger Derek Hennessey.

The Soo Jr. Greyhounds inched ever so closer to the top of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League standings and the first place North Bay Skyhawks Wednesday with a convincing 11-1 victory over the Espanola Screaming Eagles. The Jr.

It's a two-team race for first place and a five-team race for the rest of the positions within the senior division of the local girls high school basketball league. In games from Tuesday: St.

The St. Mary's Knights will finish atop the standings and the St. Basil Saints will be at the bottom but that's all that's been decided heading into the final of week of the regular season in the local senior high school football league. St.

The Greyhounds' winless skid continued Sunday night at Memorial Gardens with a 7-4 defeat at the hands of the Kingston Frontenacs.

SUDBURY -- It was a three-point weekend here for the Soo North Stars, who picked up a win and a tie over the Sudbury Valley East Cobras in Great North Midget Hockey League action.

SUDBURY -- The Sault's White Pines Wolverines and the North Bay West Ferris Trojans played their collective hearts out in the championship game of the College Notre-Dame senior girls high school basketball tournament held here Saturday night.