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Cross-country skier Devon Kershaw, 23, placed 37th in the men's 1.5 k sprint Wednesday. Kershaw's next event is the 50 k free race scheduled for Sunday at 4 am. Catch the race on CBC television (channel 9, cable 8).

BY SCOTT HADDOW [email protected] In only her third season, Laurentian University women's basketball forward Cassandra Carpenter has established herself as a star and as one the elite athletes in the country.

The Copper Cliff Ice Angels are ready to rock the house. The classy group of young ladies will perform at the Sudbury Wolves game tonight during the first intermission.

The Sudbury Canadians Soccer Club has been awarded a $25,000 Bell Community Sport Fund grant. In addition, the Bell Community Sport Fund will give the Sudbury Wolves a $5,000 grant.

BY SCOTT HADDOW [email protected] The Sudbury Wolves dropped two straight games over the weekend, losing to Kitchener and Peterborough, and now have dropped in the standings.

The Cambrian Foundation is hosting its second annual Legendary NHL Stars fundraising dinner Friday, March 3, enabling dinner guests to mingle with some of the toughest customers to don NHL jerseys, including John Ferguson Sr. and Dave Schultz.

name="valign" top > Sudbury's own Devon Kershaw will be competing in several cross-country skiing events in the 2006 Olympic Games. His parents, his aunt and his brother are in Turin to watch the 23-year-old.

GO TIME BY SCOTT HADDOW [email protected] Howdy hockey fans. Time for another heap of OHL news, stats and other interesting notes. name="valign" top > Anton Hedman leads the Wolves with 10 power play goals.

The Wolves missed out on an opportunity to move up in the standings this weekend, losing two of three games.

Sudbury's Jeff Buttle and Devon Kershaw were in action today at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy, but neither came away with any medals. In cross-country skiing, Kershaw, 23, and his partner George Grey of Rossland, B.C.