Sports

(NC)-Staying active is important for teenagers and so is staying injury free. Unfortunately, injury is all too common, according to one study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

For the second year in a row, Kristine Lalonde, as a member of Team Ontario, has won the gold medal at the Under-15 National Girls Basketball Championships recently held in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

BY SCOTT HADDOW When the dust settled on the Sudbury Spartans 2006 season, despite a 41-14 loss in the first round of the play offs to Milton last week, the players held their heads up high. They had good reason.

BY SCOTT HADDOW Like two competing elks, the Sudbury Panhellenic Women's team and the North York Wolves are going to crash heads and lock horns this weekend during the biggest game of the season for both clubs.

When the curtain rose on the Sudbury Canadians 2006 season, optimism was sky high as the club hoped to win seven games and further entrench themselves as a rising franchise in the United Soccer League - W-League. It didn't happen.

BY SCOTT HADDOW Brian McGarry is taking a big step in continuing his hockey career next season. The 21-year-old Sudbury native recently signed a one-year contract with the Geleen Ice Eaters in the Holland elite hockey league.

Dowling's Yves Bastien, 17, made the 2006-07 Canadian National Men's Under-18 team, which is competing in the Junior World Cup this week in Piestany, Slovakia and Breclav, Czech Republic. The event runs from Aug. 8 to 12.

BY SCOTT HADDOW [email protected] Goalie Billy Stone was missing something from his game last season.

BY KEITH LACEY Sometimes in the weird and wonderful world of sports, you have a night you will never forget. One of those nights took place for Lil' Gerry Belanger Wednesday night at Sudbury Downs.

Just because it's the off-season doesn't mean the coaches for the Laurentian University women's soccer team aren't working hard trying to build a winning squad.