Tirzah Keefer is in a must win situation at the Canadian junior women's curling championship in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
The Fort Frances native, who curls out of Thunder Bay, split games yesterday, beating Prince Edward Island, but losing the night game to Nova Scotia 11-1.
Her Northern Ontario rink sits with a record of 2 and 3 and needs a win this afternoon against Quebec for a chance to advance to the championship round.
Fort Frances Lakers and the Dryden Ice Dogs do battle tonight at the Ice for Kids Arena.
Both teams are in a dog fight for second, each with 53 points.
The Lakers won the last meeting between the two clubs last Wednesday in Dryden.
The SIJHL is allowing all five of its remaining clubs to enter the playoff round.
Top three teams will earn first round byes while the fourth and fifth place finishers will play a best-of-three series to determine who advances to the semi-finals.
The playoffs will begin in the middle of March.
Fort Frances Muskies girls hockey team travel to Kenora to face the Thomas Aquinas Saints.
In the Falls, the Broncos girls basketball team lost 65-61 to Cherry.
On the schedule tonight, the Broncos boys hockey team hosts Lake of the Woods - 7:30 p.m. at Bronco Arena.
The boys basketball team is at Crosby-Ironton.
