By Bernie Puchalski: BP Sports Niagara - September 19, 2024
The rematch of last season’s Niagara Catholic Athletic Association senior football championship game between the visiting Saint Michael Mustangs and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish produced the same result.
Notre Dame knocked off the Mustangs 45-7 last November and Thursday morning the Fighting Irish opened the season with a 38-0 victory.
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By Jennifer Pellegrini: BP Sports Niagara - September 12, 2024
If all goes according to Sheena Darnley’s plan, she’ll be a member of Canada’s first-ever women’s Paralympic hockey team, hopefully in 2030.
But for now, the 17-year-old Grade 12 Notre Dame College School student’s eyes are focused on the upcoming Women’s World Challenge Para Hockey tournament in Skien, Norway, Oct. 25-28. Darnley is part of Canada’s National Women’s Para Hockey (sometimes known as sledge hockey) Team, including her Niagara Thunderblades teammate Jessie Gregory, who will compete at the event against women’s para hockey players around the world.
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By Bernie Puchalski : BP Sports Niagara - September 11, 2024
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish senior football team is a work in progress as it looks for its sixth Niagara Catholic Athletic Association championship in the past seven years.
“We have some athletes but it depends whether they become football athletes,” Irish head coach Tim Bisci said. “We don’t look bad and I don’t think we are in a bad situation, it’s just guys have to play football and be athletic as opposed to just being athletic.”
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