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The streak continues. The Battlefords North Stars extended their winning streak to eight games last weekend and during that streak they have had a player honoured with a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League weekly award.

Al Gaetz is one of the six individuals and one team in who will be inducted into the Humboldt and District Sports Hall of Fame in 2011. "I feel it's a real honour," said Gaetz. "I'm pleased to be inducted.

There was a lot of kicking and punching going on at the Humboldt Collegiate Institute (HCI) gymnasium over the weekend, but in a constructive way. The Humboldt Tae Kwon-Do club played host to the 2011 Sask Cup Tae Kwon-Do tournament on October 29.

October will be a month the Battlefords Midget Stars will hope to quickly put behind them. The Stars went 0-9 during the month and fall to 0-11-0-0 on the season after losing 8-2 in Regina and 8-3 in Wilcox to the Notre Dame Hounds.

The Battlefords Midget Barons season is well under way, as they are six games into the season. The Barons played twice at home on the weekend and fell 7-3 and 8-3, despite some impressive goaltending efforts.

The Battlefords Bantam AA Barons trailed the Swift Current Raiders 4-0 five minutes into the second period, but that wasn't enough to keep them from earning their first regular season win.

The Battlefords North Stars are hot. "It is awesome, we are on quite a role everything is working out right now," said Battlefords North Stars' leading scorer Blake Tatchell.

"Being airborne, the excitement and competition," were the answers given by a smiling 11-year-old Nicholas Lesko when asked what he likes best about the sport of motocross racing.

The unhittable left-hander, as he was known around baseball diamonds during his minor baseball years, Andrew Albers has a similar reputation as a 26-year-old, only on a much larger scale.

The Battlefords North Stars have taken care of business on the ice recently with six straight wins, first place in the SJHL and a spot on the CJHL's top 20 rankings. Now it is time for the fans in the Battlefords to do their part.