It was a memorable weekend for the Borderland Thunder as they played their first home games at Memorial Sports Centre–signalling the return of junior level hockey in the district in almost 30 years. But Thunder head coach Wayne Strachan said it would have been even more memorable had the team […]
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A well-prepared Sisler Spartans team shut down the Muskie offence here Friday afternoon to claim a 22-8 win in Winnipeg High School Football League action. Timely offence of their own secured the win in the fourth quarter. Shortly after the Muskies had clawed back with an Adam McTavish touchdown run […]
Muskie ‘B’ co-coach Todd Calder said his team has improved by leaps and bounds over their short exhibition season yet they still find themselves winless after a 21-6 loss here Thursday to the Warroad Warriors. “There’s been major improvement,” said Calder. “They see what they’re doing wrong and working hard.” […]
Thanks to yesterday’s steady downpour, the annual fall junior soccer tournament at the St. Francis Sportsfield has been shelved until the spring. Tourney organizer Cynthia Donald, a teacher at Robert Moore, said she made the decision to cancel the grade four-six competition after discussing it with several teachers, including fellow […]
Preparations have been well underway to welcome the Borderland Thunder for their first home game this Friday night. M & M Meat Shops here is organizing a tailgate party–featuring food and music–starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Memorial Sports Centre as a way to get Thunder fans ready for the […]
The Borderland Thunder have the right ingredients heading into their first set of home games this weekend–a 4-1-1 record, a taste of first place in the young Superior International Junior Hockey League, and a team that’s starting to come together. “It’ll be big. We’ve got a lot of fan support […]
This weekend, the Sunset Country Snowmobile Club will consider whether to shut down its network of about 400 km of trails because of a lack of funding. The club is facing a dwindling amount of trail permit sales and, facing a move by the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs to […]
If there ever was a time to pinpoint a key week of practices and preparations by the Muskie football team, one need not look past last week as they got set for the annual Homecoming game. “We had a problem with commitment all year round,” admitted Muskie head coach Bob […]
Cathy Kowal, a local First Nations police officer, is taking on the challenge of her life next year when she competes at the national “Ironman” triathlon in Penticton, B.C. in an effort to raise money for cancer. “This one has a lot of personal meaning me,” Kowal said Friday. “My […]
Students from 16 elementary schools from across the area competed in the fourth-annual Rainy River District cross-country championships at Crossroads in Devlin last Wednesday. Close to 300 runners from grades four to eight took part in the event, which Crossroads principal Brian Love said fell on one of the last […]
The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team lost some tough games at the Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Classic tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend. They opened play Friday night with a 32-25 loss to St. Patrick’s. Allison Hyatt led the Muskies with nine points, while Carling Barton netted six and Andrea Boileau […]
The Tagg’s Bantam ‘AA’ hockey team dumped the Dryden Hornets 8-1 here Saturday in their first exhibition game of the season. After the game, head coach Dave Egan had to make his final three roster cuts to finalize the team at 17 players. “They made it very tough for us. […]
