Steve Arpin’s Pinewood Sports and Marine snowmobile racing crew was forced to work on the fly at their weekend stop in Freeport, Mn. as motor problems hurt them in the feature races. But Arpin still managed to earn enough points to stay atop the World Snowmobiling Association pro circuit standings […]
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The Borderland Thunder will look to cement their lead atop the Superior International Junior Hockey League tonight when the struggling Dryden Ice Dogs come to town. Borderland (23-8-8) is nine points up on the second-place Ice Dogs (19-12-7) with about 10 games left in the regular season. “We’re not going […]
The Muskies (2-9-2) remain one point behind the Sioux Lookout Warriors (3-10-1) for the fourth-and-final NorWOSSA playoff spot after splitting a pair of home games against them. The black-and-gold took the opener 5-2 on Friday night but fell 6-3 to the visiting Warriors on Saturday afternoon. “I’m not pleased with […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team, the defending all-Ontario ‘A/AA’ champs, have their backs against the wall this weekend. The last-place Muskies will host the fourth-place Sioux Lookout Warriors on Friday at 7:30 and again Saturday at 1 p.m. with the fourth-and-final NorWOSSA playoff spot on the line. The Warriors (2-9-1) […]
A close game quickly turned into a lay-up drill for the Muskie senior boys’ basketball squad here yesterday afternoon. The black-and-gold used their quick transition game to blow open a 28-22 halftime lead en route to a 66-43 win over the Dryden Eagles to improve to 6-1 with one regular-season […]
Just 24 hours after some of the players skated together in the Superior International Junior Hockey League’s all-star game here, the Borderland Thunder and Dryden Ice Dogs last night resumed what they do best: hate each other. The Thunder (23-8-8) won 3-1 up there on a night of rough play […]
The ‘AA’ Atom tournament here this weekend has been circled on the calendars of the local Sunset Ford Country Mustangs for a long time. “All the parents have worked really hard organizing this,” Mustangs head coach Mark McCaig said. “We want to put on a really good show and want […]
The cream of the Superior Inter-national Junior Hockey League crop put in a strong showing at their inaugural all-star game here last night but in the end, it was too much Blizzard—too much of the time. The OCN Blizzard, three-time defending champions of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, jumped ahead […]
Spectators attending the first-ever Superior International Junior Hockey League all-star game tonight can dig into some free burgers, pop, and hot chocolate beforehand at the Memorial Sports Centre lobby. The local M&M Meat Shops will be holding its second “tailgate” party of the season to help ring in the game. […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team couldn’t stay close for a third-straight game, coming out on the short end of an 8-1 score to the host Kenora Broncos on Friday night. The black-and-gold fell to 1-7-2 on the NorWOSSA season and lost ground on the Sioux Lookout Warriors (2-9-1) for the […]
Three days before the Superior International Junior Hockey League’s inaugural all-star game here, Kevin Webb put on an all-star worthy performance of his own. The Borderland Thunder forward scored four goals to lead his team to a 9-3 dumping of the Thunder Bay Snowplowing Wolves here yesterday afternoon. The Thunder […]
Last night’s Super Bowl wasn’t the only close finish of the weekend in New Orleans. Muskie Adam McTavish and his Canadian national football team were involved in one of the closest finishes at the Global Junior Cham-pionship VI there. Playing the United States in the final, Canada fought back from […]
