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Ross Ballantyne holds the lead after two rounds in the Investors Group Ontario Senior Men's Championship at the North Bay Golf & Country Club.

The North Bay Senior Baseball League championship series starts Sunday at Veterans Field, Bull & Quench and Carte Blanche Rotarians start a best of three series at 6:30 p.m. The second game goes Monday, also at Veterans, at 8:30 p.m.

Ken Pagan hit back-to-back-to-back home runs on consecutive pitches Sunday night at Veterans Field to spark Bull and Quench to a 17-2 victory over Astorville Lumberkings in the North Bay Senior Baseball League playoffs at Veteran’s Field.

OAKVILLE _ It would have been so nice for the North Bay Bulldogs to have pulled another win this season, but despite the 17–0 loss to the Oakville Longhorns, the Bulldogs came away with a few important victories from the game.

Couples Night _ Aug.

The Women’s Gateway Major Fastball Association held its closing banquet and awards night Thursday at Partners Billiards & Bowling.

Are they in or out? Nobody is saying, but an ultimatum has been handed to the Sudbury Northern Wolves. It was announced earlier this week that the Wolves wanted a year's leave of absence from the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League.

1st - Grant Forest Products - 56 Peter Grant; Judy Dotten; Gilles Lefebvre; Natalie Desjardins 2nd - Clarion Resort Pinewood Park - 61 Tom Mason; Dan Garagan (with an ace on #15); David Garagan; William Fulton 3rd - Coldwell Banker Real Estate - 61 P

Results Terrace Suites 9 Carte Blanche Rotarians 1 Winning pitcher Chris Southcombe four-hitter 11 strikeouts Terrace Suites Tyler Wright two hits including grand slam home run; Kelly Romako two hits Carte Blanche Rotarians Nick Cicci two hits Sunday

The North Bay Skyhawks of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League begin their main training camp, by invitation only, Monday Aug. 23 at Memorial Gardens. The club will hit the ice from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.