Sports

BY ASHLEY LABERGE Although he spent the past season cheering on the Sudbury Wolves, Tim Morgan wants people to know there is more to him than the team's well-known mascot Howler.

The Sudbury Junior Wolves will play for the NOJHL championship. The Junior Wolves earned the right by dumping the Northern Michigan Black Bears four games to one. The Wolves won Game Five 4-1.

Kyleigh Commito is a Grade 12 student at Lockerby Composite School. She recently competed at OFSAA swimming and won a silver medal in the 100-metre freestyle and placed seventh in the 200-m freestyle.

Northern Life is making a call for coaches and sports professionals to submit columns or articles designed to help athletes out with their goals and dreams.

BY HEVEN WHIDDEN Local All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) racer Shawn Marinoff is looking forward to tearing up the dirt track this summer. For Marinoff getting behind the controls of a dirt bike came not too long after he first learned how to walk.

In soccer, when the going gets tough, Anjelica Mazzella just gets tougher. The Lockerby soccer standout recently joined the Laurentian University women's soccer program as a rookie recruit.

With 454 eligible players available for the 2006 OHL Priority Draft on Saturday, the Sudbury Wolves are ready to harvest a handsome crop of prospects from a large field.

The Northern Ontario slo-pitch national zone championships are set to take place from June 23 to 25 at the Terry Fox Complex. The championships will include both the men's and women's divisions. Teams that register before June 10 pay $300.

The Sudbury Junior Wolves blasted the St. Michael's Buzzers 5-2 on Thursday afternoon to advance to the semi finals of the Dudley Hewitt Cup in Thunder Bay.

The SDSSAA is sending an army to the 2006 OFSAA gymnastics championships, led by Level 6 gymnasts Sophie Bertrand (gold at NOSSA) and Korrie Tyres (silver at NOSSA). There are no less than 55 athletes from 10 local schools headed to St.