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HAMILTON, Ont. -- Jenica Whitrow scored the winning goal with less than two minutes remaining in the third period as the Weyburn Gold Wings opened the Esso Cup womens hockey championship with a 2-1 win over the Sudbury Lady Wolves on Sunday. Kari Shell opened the scoring for the Lady Wolves (0-1-0-0) with a power-play goal 5:13 into the first period. Madison Solie tied the game at 14:57 of the second period before Whitrow scored the winner for Weyburn (1-0-0-0) at 18:07 of the third. Cassidy Pirlot assisted on both Weyburn goals. Jane Kish made 25 saves for Weyburn, while Stephanie Pascal stopped 21 shots for Sudbury. Later Sunday, Jessica Healey scored the only goal of the game at 15:51 of the third period as the Edmonton Thunder edged the Fraser Valley Phantom 1-0. Tracie Kikuchi made 34 saves to earn the shutout for Edmonton (1-0-0-0). Valencia Yordanov was just as impressive, making 32 saves in a losing cause for Fraser Valley (0-1-0). In Sundays late game, Claire Merrick scored two goals and assisted on another as the host Stoney Creek Sabres downed the Moncton Rockets 8-1. Stephanie Ayres also scored twice, and Jessica Brown, Victoria Klimek, Sarah Nelles and Theresa Woodland added goals for the Sabres (1-0-0-0). Hannah Miller stopped 14 shots for the victory. Hayley Hallihan replied for Moncton (0-1-0-0) and Brianne Waterman made 42 saves. WENGEN, Switzerland -- Erik Guay was fastest in World Cup downhill training yet again Thursday. The Canadian racer extended his streak of winning a training run at each downhill venue this season, timing 2 minutes, 36.14 seconds on the 4.42-kilometre (2.75-mile) Lauberhorn. "I feel like my training runs have been very consistent since the start. Now Im slowly translating those fast speeds into race days," said Guay, who won last month in Val Gardena, Italy. Matthias Mayer of Austria was second, 0.11 behind, and Kjetil Jansrud of Norway was third, 0.31 behind. "Its not often Ive been fast in Wengen and Ill take this," Jansrud said. Guay, the 2011 world downhill champion from Mont-Tremblant, Que., is among several contenders who have found success elusive at the storied Swiss venue. Neither he nor Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, whoo leads the World Cup downhill standings ahead of Guay, has ever finished on the podium in Wengen.dddddddddddd Svindal, the 2010 Olympic silver medallist in downhill, was ninth Thursday, trailing by 1.18 seconds. Bode Miller of the United States, a two-time Lauberhorn winner, was 10th, 1.67 behind, and Carlo Janka, the 2010 winner from Switzerland, was 13th despite a bib number of 39. Manuel Osborne-Paradis of North Vancouver, B.C., was tied for 21st, Robbie Dixon of Whistler, B.C., was 39th and Jeffrey Frisch of Mont-Tremblant was 54th. Ben Thomsen of Invermere, B.C., was 58th, Conrad Pridy was 64th and Morgan Pridy, also from Whistler, was 84th. Most racers will get another look at the course on Friday afternoon in the downhill portion of a super-combined event. The slalom leg is scheduled first in the morning when snow is forecast. Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' ' nfl jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China cheap jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic cheap nfl jerseys nfl shop wholesale jerseys