Local Sports

The Norman Northstars are still looking for their first win and point of the 2019-20 season after dropping three games on their first road trip of the month Nov. 1-3. The weekend opened with a 5-0 loss to the Winnipeg Bruins on Friday night.

Giving up goals in bunches proved costly for the Norman Northstars in a pair of losses at home to the Interlake Lightning Oct. 26-27.

R.D. Parker Collegiate’s junior boys’ volleyball team finished first in their first tournament of the school year, played at home Oct. 4-5.

The under-18 AAA Norman Northstars dropped their first two home games of the year to the Central Plain Capitals Oct. 5-6, falling 7-2 Saturday evening and 6-1 the following afternoon.

The first-ever Burntwood River Run held Sept. 29 raised nearly $3,000 for the Breast Cancer Society in memory of Faith Pritchard, organizers says.

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R.D. Parker Collegiate’s boys’ and girls’ soccer teams won five of six games at their first tournament of the year in Swan River Sept. 20-21, with the boys going undefeated and the girls winning two games and losing a scoreless draw on penalty kicks.

The junior B Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) Flames hosted a training camp in Thompson Sept. 12-14 in preparation for their inaugural season in the Keystone Junior Hockey League (KJHL).

Manitoba fishing enthusiasts spent about eight hours on the water Sept. 1 trying to win the 2019 Northern Manitoba Walleye Championship, held at Paint Lake for the third year in a row.

Thompson’s first-ever Level Up Basketball Camp ended Aug. 30 after two weeks of athletic development at the Bill Comaskey Wellness Centre.