Local Sports

R.D. Parker Collegiate’s girls’ curling team skip Brooke Graham was announced as the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association rural high school athlete of the week Feb. 19.

Tiffany Paul of Helen Betty Osborne Education Ininiw Resource Centre (HBO) in Norway House was announced as the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association rural high school athlete of the week Feb. 12.

The Norman Northstars lost their last two home games of the season to the Winnipeg Thrashers Feb. 15-16 at the C.A. Nesbitt Arena.

Two of Thompson's teams fell one win shy of capturing their respective divisions' hardware at the 50th Munn Cup atom hockey tournament Feb. 14-16.

R.D. Parker Collegiate’s senior girls’ basketball team suffered their first loss of the season in the final of the South Comes North basketball tournament they hosted in Thompson Feb. 14-15.

The participants may be small – mostly nine or 10 years old – but when it comes to organizing the Munn Cup, the name of the game is go big or go home.

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The Norman Northstars continued a six-game homestand at the C.A. Nesbitt Arena Feb. 8-9, dropping two games against the Pembina Valley Hawks.

The Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) Flames are now nine points ahead of the second-place Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN) Storm in the Keystone Junior Hockey League standings after three straight victories Feb. 6-8.

R.D. Parker Collegiate’s girls’ curling team skipped by Brooke Graham swept their way to provincials with back-to-back victories over the Hapnot Collegiate Institute team at the Zone 11 championships in Thompson Feb. 7-8.