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SPORTS CHECK: Olympians on the move, Eagles soar

Olympians hard at it

PyeongChang, South Korea

The NWT's contribution to the 2018 Winter Olympics continues to press on in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Yellowknife-born Jesse Cockney competed in the men's cross-country ski sprints on Feb. 13, where he ended up in 35 th place overall and not advancing out of his qualification section. Hay River's Brendan Green was on the biathlon course in a couple of events, beginning with the men's 10-km sprint on Feb. 11, which saw him finish 22 nd overall. He was up again on Feb. 15 in the men's 20-km individual race and it wasn't his best finish ever as he came 82 nd overall.

Kevin Koe, though, has been on a roll in men's curling. The Yellowknife-born skip had won his first three games as of press time thanks to beating Italy on Feb. 13 (5-3), Great Britain the next day (6-4) and Norway on Feb. 15 (7-4).

See the next edition of NWT News/North for an update on how things are going.

Eagles fly high

Somba K'e/Yellowknife

Yellowknife may have taken five of the six banners up for grabs at the NWT Power Corporation Junior Cager in the capital but Fort Good Hope made sure it wasn't a clean sweep.

The Chief T'selehye Eagles managed to throw the proverbial monkey wrench in the engine by winning the Grade 8 girls division over St. Pat's High School of Yellowknife in the final on Feb. 11. The school's Grade 7 boys team very nearly made it two banners but came up short against Yellowknife's Weledeh Catholic School.

Inuvik's East Three Secondary also had a chance to snag a banner as they managed to get to the Grade 8 boys final against St. Pat's but they were shut down in the final.

Club curlers do battle

Thebacha/Fort Smith

The Fort Smith Curling Club was the site for the NWT Travelers Curling Club Playdowns, which wrapped up on Feb. 18.

Yellowknife and Hay River battled it out in a best-of-five to determine the women's representative while three teams from Yellowknife, Hay River and Fort Smith played a double round-robin to figure out the men's winner.

The winners will move on to the Travelers Curling Club Championship later this year, the location of which has not yet been confirmed by Curling Canada.