Staff Four local bowlers advanced to the provincial showdown coming up Easter weekend in Dryden after competing Jan. 24-25 in the 20-game zone roll-offs in Kenora. Andrew Stamarski finished with a 4,725 total to qualify for the Sunset Country men’s squad while Dixie McDonald rolled a 4,430 to qualify for […]
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Staff The perfect season is no more. La Place Rendez-Vous knocked off previously-undefeated Dominos 75-53 in local men’s basketball league action Monday night, including an incredible 26-0 run to start the game. Aaron Rost of the Vous led all shooters with 25 points while John Sivonen netted 23 for Dominos. […]
Mitch Calvert Emily Drouin (front) and her Muskie junior volleyball teammates warmed up by practising their digging skills Monday night in preparation for today’s NorWOSSA showdown against the Dryden Eagles at Fort High.
?I just finished watching a new episode of In-Fisherman Ice Guide TV on WFN, where Gord Pyzer and Doug Stange were catching some beauty lake trout on tubes, and was inspired to write about my favourite fish under the ice—and my favourite bait to catch them. Sunset Country anglers are […]
For better or worse, hockey fights have been in the sport since Day 1. But do they still belong? Some hockey prognostics strongly believe they do while others, who once encompassed a small minority, adamantly are against it—and gaining a bigger following of late. This debate has been fuelled by […]
Staff The Pinewood Blades Bantam girls’ hockey team was pushed to their limits but still managed to emerge as champions at the Kathy Sanders Memorial tournament in Dryden last weekend with a 5-4 victory over the Kenora Avalanche in the final. It was their second tournament victory in as many […]
Mitch Calvert That’s more like it. The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres exacted some revenge Sunday afternoon with a 7-1 thrashing of the Sioux Lookout Flyers, rebounding from a 7-4 loss to that same team here a week ago yesterday. “Much better effort,” Sabres’ head coach Wayne Strachan said. “One of […]
