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The temperature in the air had dropped considerably this past Friday night but the driving was still hot and furious in what proved to be a wild night of racing at the Kinross Speedway.

Ben’s Bait & Tackle Shop in Garden River, Ontario used a popular annual event over the weekend to help raise money for a worthy charity.

This year’s Ontario Baseball Association Junior “B” Championships were not very kind to the Soo Junior Black Sox of the Northern Elite League.

She may not be bringing any medals home from the 2004 Summer Olympic games in Athens, but local swimmer Jennifer Fratesi managed to represent both herself and her hometown well as she wrapped up her Olympic races early this morning.

Rick Ellis inched even closer to the top of the driver points standings in the Late Model Division at Laird International Raceway on Thursday night.

Early Thursday morning, one of the Sault’s own will make her first appearance at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. Local swimmer Jennifer Fratesi will swim her first race on Thursday morning in Greece.

The bounty placed on beating Michael Gold has been a hot commodity of late at Laird International Raceway.

With the superstitious “Friday the 13th” phenomenon overlooking this past Friday’s racing action at the Kinross Speedway, the race to the 2004 track championships continued to heat up at this Michigan-based ¼ mile facility.

The first annual Northern Pro-Hockey Challenge opened up on Friday night at the Pee Wee arena and the many fans in attendance were treated to some entertaining hockey.

The cities of Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury are set to renew their hockey rivalries.