The draw for the final 40 berths into next year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship was held last night and aired live on Channel 11. The following are the first 40 teams eligible to compete. The top 10 of the 66 additional teams on the waiting list also are included. […]
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The Borderland Thunder’s first regular-season action in the Superior International Junior Hockey League last weekend in Thunder Bay featured a little bit of everything–from rebounding after a tough opening loss to a 13-player brawl. After losing 6-5 to the Bulldogs on Friday, the Thunder stormed back to beat the Wolves […]
Muskie head coach Bob Swing sounded like a road weary coach after Monday’s practice. And you can’t blame him. His team has played three-straight Fridays in Winnipeg–and all of those contests were against opponents celebrating their Homecoming game. Coming off a disappointing 27-22 loss to the River East Kodiaks, the […]
For longtime hunter Ray Coran, the opening of moose and deer season is his favourite time of year. “I like that first weekend because you get that first run,” he remarked. “They’re not spooked yet. They don’t pair up and there’s more of those gun shy ones.” “I just love […]
The Muskies were on the wrong end of a seesaw affair in Winnipeg on Friday as the River East Kodiaks came back to bite them 27-22. The black-and-gold surrendered the first score of the game after a blocked field goal attempt by Adam McTavish was recovered by River East for […]
The Borderland Thunder had a successful regular-season debut in the Superior International Junior Hockey League over the weekend, winning two of three games in Thunder Bay. After dropping a narrow 6-5 decision to the Thunder Bay Bulldogs (1-1) on Friday, the Thunder (2-1) beat the Thunder Bay Wolves 6-1 on […]
The Muskie ‘B’ football team came close to winning their first game of the season yesterday, falling 12-6 to the host International Falls Broncos. The Bees (0-3) hung in tough until the last few minutes of the game when their drive for the game-tying touchdown only got as far as […]
The Muskie girls’ hockey team enter their second season of existence, and their first as an official high school sport, with tryouts this week. The team had hammered out the details of forming a NorWOSSA league with Dryden, Kenora, and possibly Sioux Lookout at the end of last season. In […]
There’s an old picture which former Fort Frances Canadian Pete Makarchuk owns. It’s of the late Ray Frederick, his friend and former neighbour, in his goaltending prime as a Chicago Blackhawk trying to stop Montreal Canadiens’ great Maurice “Rocket” Richard during a 1955 game. “I don’t think Richard got it […]
It looks like the final cuts for the local Taggs ‘AA’ Bantam hockey team will go right down to the wire. The team’s coaching staff held a three-day tryout sessions almost two weeks ago but admitted the roster choices made then–and ones still going to made–have been extremely tough. So […]
The Muskie ‘A’ football team erased a six-point halftime deficit to beat the Grant Park Pirates 32-18 last Friday in Winnipeg. Two big runs helped the Muskies rally to victory. Down 18-14 in the third quarter, tailback Dan Hettinga scampered 60 yards to make it 21-14 for the black-and-gold. Then […]
The Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association will hold a coaching clinic next Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Sports Centre for anyone interested in trying their hand at heading a house league team. The clinic, run roughly once every two years here, will deal with the more philosophical aspects of […]
