A large portion of this year’s Northwestern Ontario ‘AAA’ PeeWee rep squad includes seven players from the local Knights of Columbus ‘AA’ team. Preparing for the regional playdowns next weekend in Kenora are centres Tyler Miller and Eric Soucy, wingers Paul Dobransky and Brian White, and defencemen Danny Chapman, Tyson […]
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The Allan Cup is on display here today and tomorrow as the centrepiece of a ceremony Friday night to honour the 50th anniversary of the ’52 Canadians’ championship season. Eight surviving team members and seven representatives will be on hand to receive replica Canadians’ jerseys and a banner thanks to […]
The province’s best young athletes, including nine from this district, will meet in Guelph this week for the 2002 Ontario Winter Games. Five squash players—Steve Boileau (under-13), Steve Krag and Megan Canfield (under-17), and Richard Allan and Sarah Noonan (under-19)—make up the lion’s share of the Northwestern Ontario team, which […]
With just one more league game left tomorrow, Gillons’ (91) holds a sizable lead over Scared Hitless (80.5) in the local women’s Thursday night volleyball league standings. Playoffs will be played March 21 and 28, with the final slated April 7 at 7 p.m. at the Fort High gym. Rounding […]
The Emo Devlin Barwick Minor Hockey Association’s annual PeeWee tournament, co-ordinated by co-chairs Cindy Judson and Ellen Brigham, attracted 14 teams. In the ‘A’ event, the Nip-Rock Elks (Nipigon) faced the Kenora Sharks, both teams having emerged without a loss from round-robin play. After jumping out to a 2-1 lead […]
Nineteen skaters from the local Border Skate Club and 16 from the Emo Figure Skating Club competed in the annual Thunder Bay Open last weekend. EFSC skater Ashlee Nordstrom captured three first-place standings in her four singles events, while Dana Drennan, Taylor Latimer, and Kalene Krause each achieved two. “Considering […]
The district was well represented at a five-team grade seven/eight boys’ basketball tournament at St. Patrick’s (Atikokan) last Thursday, but the host team stood its ground. St. Pat’s dumped the Cross-roads Tornadoes (Devlin) 34-11 in the final to claim the title. The St. Francis Sentinels (Fort Fran-ces) beat Mine Centre […]
It was not a great end to Steve Arpin’s oval sledding season. The local first-year pro lost the lead in his World Snowmobiling Association circuit points race after running into problems during feature races at the finale event at the Raceplex in Beausejour, Man. “We generally had the fastest times […]
Four Aquanauts joined more than 1,000 of their fellow swimmers at the junior provincials in Brantford last week. This was the first time the Aquanauts have sent swimmers to this event. And while none made a national standard time, head coach Roman Ramirez said the experience was the key reason […]
The 2001-02 edition of the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team was supposed to be rebuilding. But even after adapting to the lost of four starters from last season, the black-and-gold still found themselves on the brink of returning to the all-Ontarios at season’s end. “I couldn’t be prouder of these […]
Leads, rebounds, and a second-straight trip to the all-Ontarios were snatched away from the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team here over the weekend. The Hillcrest Colts (Thunder Bay) dominated the boards 44-23 en route to their 64-57 win over the Muskies on Saturday morning to sweep the best-of-three NWOSSAA final. […]
A meeting to finalize plans for the return of a local Midget ‘AA’ rep team should happen by the end of the month. “It’s mainly for parents and players to come down and help us outline the program,” team organizer Dave Egan said of the meeting, which will be scheduled […]
