In the lead up to the 2013 Northern Ontario Cricket Tournament at Amelia Park, North Bay, the North Bay Multicultural Cricket Club registered wins against Sudbury, Timmins and Markham, according to the July 20th Saturday Sports Wrap on 600CKAT. The North Bay club was due to play a Markham Mayor\u2019s XI before the Northern tournament on August 3rd and 4th.
\nNorth Bay\u2019s “Summer in the Park” website provided details of the schedule for the Northern Ontario Cricket Tournament where Mayor Al MacDonald was due to participate in the Opening Ceremonies at 10am on Saturday (August 3rd ). Play was scheduled to begin at 10.30am with Toronto Bluebirds CC facing Thunder Bay Warriors.
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\nNorth Bay Multicultural CC and Sault Ste Marie CC were due to begin playing at 1pm, followed by Toronto Bluebirds against Sault Ste Marie from 3.30pm with the North Bay and Thunder Bay clubs meeting in the last game on Saturday at 6pm.
\nNorth Bay was due to meet Toronto Bluebirds on Sunday at 10.30 am with the round-robin phase being completed with the game between Sault Ste Marie and Thunder Bay from 1pm. The top two teams from the round-robin phase were due to meet in the 2013 Northern Ontario Cricket Tournament Final at 3.30pm. The cricketing part of the Summer In the Park Festival was due to conclude with a closing ceremony, including presentation of awards, from 6pm.
\nSome might find news in the 600 CKAT Saturday Sports Wrap about the Laurentian Ski Hill Snowboarding Club has received a $17,000 grant to support the Hill\u2019s 2013-2014 “Introduction and Improvement Program” from the Ontario Sport and Recreation Communities Fund to be interesting. It might indicate the Snowboarding Club prepared a solid presentation and plan in order to obtain a grant. Perhaps the cricketers in Northern Ontario might see if they could obtain some funding to help promote and develop cricket in North Bay, Sault Ste Marie, Thunder Bay and, presumably, in Sudbury, Ontario, where the Sudbury Cricket Club and Northern Ontario Cricket Council had planted some cricketing seeds in recent years.
\nPerhaps there is scope for a CIMA Northern Ontario Mayors\u2019 Cricket Championship? The one response to the recent article in “The Nugget” about this past weekend\u2019s Northern Ontario Cricket Championship asked if there was room for women cricketers. Hopefully someone will attempt to open the door for women and girls cricket in the northern towns in Ontario, and hopefully results from the 2013 North Bay tournament will soon be appearing to complete another step in cricket\u2019s progress around the top of the Great Lakes.
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