Tag: Owen Sound North Stars
Landen Hookey nets first-career OT winner as the Owen Sound Attack comeback to top the Trout in Brampton
BRAMPTON — Early in the season when the Owen Sound Attack played well in a defeat the line was: there are no moral victories. Then, when the team struggled, there were no excuses. This team might not make the playoffs, but they won’t quit. That much was evident as the Attack scored four unanswered goals […]
Owen Sound North Stars value depth in Major Series Lacrosse draft
The Owen Sound North Stars added a prolific junior scorer and champion-pedigree defenceman as part of this week’s Major Series Lacrosse draft. Ahead of the draft, teams were able to keep up to four players from an affiliated Junior A club on their protected list. Owen Sound chose to protect four players from their affiliate […]
North Stars help Ontario U17 squad cap off season with a perfect 8-0 run
The Team Ontario under-17 women’s lacrosse team capped off an outstanding season with an undefeated 8-0 record over the past two weekends, dominating tournaments in Maryland and Florida. Three athletes from the Owen Sound North Stars Junior Elite Women’s Lacrosse (JEWL) team – Bree Wilkins, Taryn Weppler, and head coach Lyndsay Brooks – were key […]
North Stars Alumni Shine in OUA Championships
Former Owen Sound North Stars Kennedy Coughlin, Kenna McKee and Tara Meikle helped their Queen’s University teammates complete an undefeated season with a 15-4 win over Ontario Tech in the OUA gold medal game this past weekend. The victory earned the Gaels their fifth Patterson Cup as Ontario champions. A total of eight North Stars […]
SPORTS BRIEFS: Local LAX stars at Worlds
LOCAL LAX STARS AT WORLDS Port Elgin’s Ian MacKay and Flesherton’s Tori Verbeek will join Team Canada at the World Lacrosse Box Championships, set to take place from September 20 to 29 in Utica, New York. Verbeek joins Team Canada for the first-ever women’s box lacrosse championship. She is a graduate student at St. Lawrence […]
Goldie and Team Canada will go for gold at U20 world championships
Owen Sound’s Jillian Golden and her Team Canada teammates will play for gold at the 2024 World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship in Hong Kong. On Thursday, Goldie and the Canadians beat Japan 17-2 in the semifinals to earn a berth into the gold-medal contest scheduled for 6:30 p.m. (6:30 a.m. EST). The Canadians went a […]
North Stars win lacrosse gold at Ontario Summer Games
Three Owen Sound North Stars girls’ field lacrosse players and one coach won gold medals at the Ontario Summer Games in London this past weekend. Team Blue, featuring Camryn Stauffer, Hannah Davies, Willow Smith-Spinney and coach Reese Wilkins, defeated Team Pink by a score of 13-5 to win gold. Goalie Mykah Harris, and team manager […]
N’Stars first season back in Senior A lacrosse loop ends in Peterborough
Peterborough’s attack proved too potent for the upstart Owen Sound North Stars. The Lakers swept the N’Stars in three games with a 15-6 win inside the Peterborough Memorial Centre Thursday night. With a Mann Cup in their sights, the Lakers will move on, while the North Stars will return home to lick their wounds and […]
Fundraising run in memory of Tyson Downs to raise money for genetic heart condition research
Balmy Beach brain cancer survivor Jesse Walker is running to raise money this summer in memory of his friend Tyson Downs and support of research into devastating genetic heart conditions. Downs died unexpectedly a year ago at age 18. The gifted athlete with plans to study civil engineering at Conestoga College played with the Owen […]
Sr. B North Stars face elimination Thursday
The Owen Sound North Stars senior B club is in a do-or-die situation after going down 2-0 in their best-of-five Ontario Series Lacrosse semifinal with the league-leading Six Nations Rivermen. On Sunday afternoon in Owen Sound, the Rivermen scored four unanswered goals in the latter part of the third period to come from behind and […]