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 […]
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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 […]
The third period was the Borderland Thunder’s best friend over the weekend as they rallied not once but twice to take a 4-2 win and a 4-4 draw against the visiting second-place Feathermen Hawks (Thunder Bay). Butit wasn’t enough to move the Thunder (11-7-7) out of third place in the […]
Returning to the friendly confines of the “Fish Tank” was just what the Muskie court teams needed. After losing three of four matches in Dryden on Tuesday to open the NorWOSSA campaign, the Muskies took three of four from the visiting Kenora Broncos here yesterday. The senior girls’ volleyball squad […]
The first of two NorWOSSA qualifier bonspiels was held at the Fort Frances Curling Club on Tuesday, with both the Muskie boys’ and girls’ rinks taking first place. Kelly Nielson’s rink, including third Amber Sheloff, second Amy Nielson, lead Giselle Bonot, and alternate Katie Bondett, dumped the Rainy River Owls […]
It took one bounce in the last minute of the third period to turn a would-be Borderland Thunder comeback road victory into a 5-5 tie against the first-place Dryden Ice Dogs on Wednesday night. After pulling their goalie, Dryden’s Mike English capped a natural hat trick by banking the puck […]
Rainy River native and former world champ Diane Adams still remembers her first bonspiel win. It was 1977. She was in grade seven and helped her rink take top honours at a junior bonspiel at the Rainy River Curling Club. “That was years ago,” recalled Adams (nee Wolanicki), 36, from […]
Things will come full circle for the fourth-place Muskie boys’ hockey team tonight when they host the front-running Kenora Broncos. A season-opening 4-1 loss in Kenora on Nov. 20 tripped the Muskies out of the gate—and they’ve struggled since en route to a 1-5 record, including a pair of losses […]
The local Knights of Columbus PeeWee ‘AA’ hockey team took top honours at the annual Lake of the Woods tournament in Baudette, Mn. over the weekend. Josh Sigurdson and Paul Dobransky scored in a 2-1 win over the Roseau Rams in the final. Wade Friesen earned the win in goal. […]
