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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.

The surging Soo Greyhounds won their fourth straight game on Thursday, a 6-3 road win over the Sarnia Sting.

The city's two Ontario Colleges Athletic Association men's basketball teams are set for a cross-town showdown tomorrow night.

The streak was bound to end sooner or later. The Soo Jr. Greyhounds dropped their first game since a 4-3 loss in Sudbury back in the middle of October Tuesday night at Memorial Gardens. The defending champion Rayside Balfour Sabrecats handed the Jr.

The Soo Greyhounds are on a roll with three wins in a row, the latest triumph being a hard-fought 3-2 decision over the tough Sarnia Sting before 2,832 fans at Memorial Gardens on Sunday night.

The men's basketball team at Algoma University made school history on Saturday with a first-ever win in Ontario Colleges Athletic Association play.

Ron Kelly stomped off the bench midway through the first half Friday night and ignited the Sault College Cougars to a 92-72 Ontario Colleges Athletic Association men's basketball win over the previously unbeaten Fanshawe Falcons.

With just four defencemen in the line-up for the So Greyhounds on Friday night against Gulp, many thought it was going to be a tough night for the locals, especially facing the likes of Storm troopers Dan Paella, Martin St. Pierre and Dustin Brown.

The best player on the Soo Junior Greyhounds will take his hockey-playing act south of the border to the Lake Superior State University Lakers next fall.