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The three-time defending Great North Midget League champion Soo North Stars have announced their tryout dates for the upcoming season.

The Dundee Wealth Management Sault Shock U-14 Girls demonstrated that teamwork, tenacity and discipline are a winning combination, in an 'electrifying' performance at this past weekend's Sudbury Panhellenic International Soccer Tournament.

The Mrs B's Pee Wee Black Sox were stopped on the weekend only by Mother Nature. The local Black Sox team made it to the semi-finals this past weekend in Burlington in the Major Pee Wee Baseball Tournament.

The Sault Firestorm will be competing in the 2006 Ontario Summer Games during the second week of August. The Ontario Summer Games provide sports competition for youth between the ages of 11 and 22.

Tuesday night's Soo Cambrian Mazda Midget Black Sox game in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan was postponed. The game, which would have been the final Great Lakes Baseball League game for the Black Sox, was pushed back to Aug.

The playoffs are set in the first annual Algoma Women's Summer Basketball League.

Two local Special Olympic athletes competed as members of Team Ontario at the Canadian Special Olympics National Summer Games in Brandon, Manitoba last week.

The Northern Ontario Under-17 Girls basketball team rrecently returned from making a strong appearance at the Juvenile Development Program Tournament organized by Basketball Ontario. They competed against five other regions in the province.

In the first semi-final in the Myte Division, Rezolution had five different players reach the end zone in a 42-7 victory over Community First.

The Sault's Under 18 girls soccer team rolled through the Sudbury Panhellenic Tournament over the weekend.