Local Sports

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.

When Shayna Moore volunteered to be her team’s goaltender as a first-year novice player in Thompson, she couldn’t have imagined where the decision would lead her. “No one wanted to be goalie,” Moore, 18, a Pimicikamak Cree Nation member, recalls.

For linebacker Thomas Miles, a native Winnipegger, having the chance to be a part of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers team that captured the Grey Cup after 28 seasons of frustration was “such an honour.” Miles, who was in Thompson Feb.