Sports

Two combatants from Cogeco’s Sports Firing line Frank “The Toe” Caruso (left), and Chris Dawson (right) now take their arguments to the web with a BayToday.ca's weekly sports opinion feature called, “Toe to Toe.

On December 11th, 2005, five swimmers from the North Bay Titan Swim Team attended the first of two Omni Top Fish Swim Meets.

The Widdifield Wildcats swept their cross town rivals from Chippewa in two straight sets (25-22,25-20) at a Girls Volleyball tournament at Durham College in Oshawa on Wednesday.

The North Bay Trappers tied the Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats 3-3 Wednesday night at the Chelmsford arena. Darcy Vaillancourt, Kyle Willard and Marc Senecal scored for the Trappers.

The North Bay Skyhawks will be represented by five players for an all-star game against an Under-20 Russian All-Star team on January 3rd at Memorial Gardens.

This Ringette sign on Highway 17 East was unveiled on the weekend to pay tribute to the man who invented the game. Photo submitted.

The Jr Trojans competed in the St. Bishop Alexander basketball tournament in Sudbury where they opened with a 46-40 win over Lo-Ellen. Morgan Brown scored 16 points while Josh Cowden and Cole Addley added 10 points each.

**Statistics as of December 18, 2005** Great North Midget League Standings (files from www.gnml.

Kody Carnevale scored twice and added an assist to lead the Trappers to a 6-2 victory over the Valley East Cobras Sunday afternoon at Memorial Gardens. Joel Senecal, Patrick Seguin Mat Pepin and Niko Tonello had singles for the Trappers in the win.

Mike Mascioli scored three times including the game winner in the third period as the Rayside-Balfour Sabrecats edged the North Bay Trappers 5-4 at a rare Saturday night contest at Memorial Gardens.