Local Sports

Red Sangster Ballfield is slated to be bulldozed but Red Sangster himself isn't about to let it go without a fight.

Players who ended their midget careers in Thompson as members of the Norman Northstars are on the move and on the scoreboard in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League as it winds up the first month of the regular season.

Bankside Billiards were the champions of Thompson's senior men's baseball league for 2009.

Hockey season is back and so is the Esso Fun Day - a chance for all female hockey players who are registered with the Thompson Minor Hockey Association and those who just want to give it a try to get to together on and off the ice.

Midget female hockey players in Northern Manitoba have a new goal to shoot for now as the Norman Regional Minor Hockey Association's elite female team is set to compete in the Manitoba Female Midget Hockey League this season.

Manitoba's aboriginal women's hockey team that took the gold medal at the 2009 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships in Winnipeg this past May are receiving recognition in the Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame.

The Norman Northstars will play their first-ever Manitoba Midget Hockey League regular season game in the new C.A. Nesbitt Arena Oct.

Midget-aged players took to the ice at C.A. Nesbitt Arena Sept. 19-20 shooting for a spot on Thompson's midget AA King Miners squad.

While most Thompsonites welcome this year's unseasonably warm late summer and early fall temperatures, there may be a few who would like to see it cool down a bit - the ones wearing skates. Inside the refurbished C.A.

The Lunatics took the overall championship in the Merchant Media Slo-Pitch League for the fifth straight year Sept. 12 at Juniper Field, beating No Fear in the A division final, while Storm finished third.