Sports

Alice Graham of North Bay and Ryan Arnold of South River are competing at this week’s BMO Skate Canada senior national figure skating championships in Edmonton, Alberta.

PICKERING — The North Bay Paramedics/CTS Canadian Career College Tween ‘A’ team reached the semifinals in the 26th annual Pickering ringette tournament. In round-robin play, they finished 2-1-1 in a very strong pool of contenders.

The results of the 2003 Ontario junior men’s and women’s weightlifting championships, held at the North Bay YMCA gym, follow: The order is as follows: competitors name, team, snatch, clean and jerk, total, placing, Sinclair formula rating.

The inclement weather forced the cancellation of all Nipissing District Association basketball and volleyball action Thursday. The girls volleyball games will be made up Wednesday Feb. 4. The boys basketball contests will be re-scheduled.

The Algonquin Barons swept the Northern Braves in NDA basketball action on December 19. The Juniors won in a tight affaire by the score of 55 to 47.

The annual Carter Cup tournament is on tap this weekend at Memorial Gardens. St. Joseph-Scollard Hall Bears of the Nipissing District Association Hockey League are the hosts. Eight teams are entered including the Bears, Sudbury St.

North Bay Paramedics/CTS Canadian Career College, a Tween ‘A’ team is in action this weekend in the Pickering invitational ringette tournament.

MONTREAl — Two weightlifters from North Bay picked up gold medals in the 2003 Quebec Open junior weightlifting championship here on the weekend.

SUDBURY — The West Ferris Ringette Association sent four entries to the Greater Sudbury ringette invitational tournament this weekend with two teams claiming the top prize in their division.