Local sports from Monday, February 23rd

The Fort Frances Lakers have widened their first-place lead in the Superior International Junior Hockey League.

The Lakers won both of their games over the weekend against the Red Lake Miner, while the Dryden GM Ice Dogs lost both of theirs to the Thunder Bay North Stars.

Fort Frances won the Saturday night game 5-1 after a 6-0 shut out Friday night.

The Lakers now have 66 points, five points better than the Ice Dogs, with two games in hand.

Dryden lost 5-4 to the North Stars Saturday night and 4-3 Friday.

The other games saw the Kam River Fighting Walleye top the Ironwood Lumberjacks 4-2 Saturday and 6-2 on Friday night.

Kam River sits in third place in the standings with 58 points but have four games in hand on the Ice Dogs and two games on the Lakers.

A successful regular season for the Lakehead Thunderwolves in the OUA West Division, didn’t result in a successful post-season.

The Thunderwolves dropped the opening round of the playoffs to the Brock Badgers two games to three.

Lakehead lost the third and deciding game of the series 4-2 Saturday night at the Fort William Gardens.

The Thunderwolves lost game one of the series in St. Catharines 8-5, but won game two 3-2 in double overtime at home.