The head coach of the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball doesn’t know which is worse—the fact his defending NWOSSAA championship team had started 0-3 or that he predicted it. “I think I was quite accurate,” Rick Wiedenhoeft said. “I’ve got a very green team. Very few of them have played at […]
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The Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club is on the right track to develop three trail systems—at Eighth Street, Rocky Inlet Road, and Reef Point Road—thanks to recent public, municipal, and possible provincial support. “The support has been excellent,” said vice-president Dr. Pierre Mikhail, noting the club has just over 60 […]
The Borderland Thunder swept the Thunder Bay Wolves 8-3 and 7-0 over the weekend here to extend their unbeaten streak to eight games. The wins also vaulted the Thunder into second place of the Superior International Junior Hockey League standings heading into the Christmas break. “They did a good job […]
The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team improved to 3-0 in NorWOSSA play after a 51-42 win over the host Kenora Broncos yesterday afternoon. The black-and-gold are the defending NWOSSAA champions. But it’s been a different story for the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team so far this season. The defending NWOSSAA […]
Borderland Thunder goalie Rob Hrabec yesterday was named defensive player-of-the-week by the Superior International Junior Hockey League—his second such award in three weeks. Hrabec led the Thunder to a 1-0-2 record against the Dryden Ice Dogs and Feathermen Hawks. The Kenora ‘AAA’ Stars product is unbeaten (3-0-2) since being traded […]
The Sunset Country Snowmobile Club attended to some administrative matters at its general meeting here Tuesday night—and for the most part, its executives are optimistic about this season. “There was interesting discussions,” SCSC president Rick Socholotuk said yesterday. “There were ideas that were brought up that will be brought up […]
After earning a crucial four out of six points last week against the top two teams in the Superior International Junior Hockey League, the Borderland Thunder look to continue their strong play this weekend. Head coach Wayne Strachan said his team’s performance against Dryden (a 5-5 tie) and the Feathermen […]
If all it takes to drop your first game of the season is to lose two of your key players, face an opposing player with a hot hand, and be taken to three overtime periods, then consider the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team in good spirits after a busy week […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team showed signs of a comeback in the second period last night, but then the Baudette Bears opened the floodgates en route to a convincing 13-3 win in exhibition action there. Muskie defenceman Kyle McTavish scored two quick goals late in the first and early in […]
It was a battle of the up-and-comer versus the veteran with a berth at the district playdowns on the line. And experience won. Thunder Bay skip Diane Adams, curling under the Rainy River club banner, upended first-year ladies’ competitor Angela Lee of Stratton 7-5 in an extra end in Sunday’s […]
The strike between the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and its radio and television technicians is threatening the Jan. 5 broadcast of “Hockey Day in Canada”—an annual program that was to feature Fort Frances as one of its satellite towns this year. If a deal is not reached by midnight Thursday (Dec. […]
Rainy River native Diane Adams led her ladies’ rink to a second-place finish at the zone playdowns yesterday in Dryden. She joined Dryden skip Dawn Sauve for one of the two spots up for grabs at next month’s Scott Tournament of Hearts district playdowns in Terrace Bay. Angela Lee of […]
