Local Sports

There really is no place like home as the Soo North Stars proved once again on the weekend. It was a sweep for the locals as they improved their Great North Midget Hockey League home record to 10-0-2 with a pair of victories over the Timmins Majors.

The Greyhounds lost for the third time in four games Friday, a 5-2 setback to the Brampton Battalion before 2,705 fans at Memorial Gardens.

Local product Niko Tuomi is going back to the Guelph Storm from the Soo Greyhounds. The 19-year old Tuomi, a bantam draft selection of the Storm in 1999, is returning to Guelph.

Just in case anyone has been keeping track, it was the 228th regular season meeting in OHL history between the Greyhounds and the Sudbury Wolves Wednesday night. And the Soo skated away with a 5-3 win before 2,410 fans at Memorial Gardens.

The Soo Junior Greyhounds are ranked 13th in the country among the more than 100 teams that are a part of the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.

There's a roar coming from Sault College, home of Cougar men's basketball team. Winners of three games in a row, the Cougars have a 4-2 record. Their two losses -- both on the road -- have been narrow ones, 93-90 to Lambton and 69-68 to St. Clair.

WINDSOR -- The Soo Greyhounds were outshot and outscored here Sunday before 2,770 fans at Windsor Arena.

A four-game Greyhound winning streak came to an end Saturday night in Plymouth. The Whalers built up a 3-0 after the first period and beat the Hounds 5-3 before more than 3,100 fans at Compuware Arena.

On the heels of a 14-game winning streak the Soo Jr. Greyhounds have fallen on hard times of late as they have lost three straight games.

Tim Walker scored 20 points as the Sault College Cougars took an Ontario Colleges Athletic Association men's basketball cross-town showdown with the Algoma University Thunderbirds Friday night at the George Leach Centre.