The women’s soccer season wrapped up last week with MEC putting the bow on the league title, their first since 1996. MEC defeated Gillons’ 4-1 last Thursday in the one-game final at St. Francis Sportsfields. Keira Main scored two goals and Jodi Johnson and Liz Leischman added the other markers. […]
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Steve Arpin put on two breathtaking performances during the Borderland racing season’s biggest two nights at last weekend’s Rainy River District Fall Fair. The 17-year old Fort native captured feature wins in both Friday and Saturday’s feature, fighting through the 22-car field, a bevy of out-of-town drivers looking to take […]
Tony Marinaro can’t help it. He can’t help but wince every time his son, T.J., turns a fast corner on the go-kart track at the Emo Speedway. You can’t blame dad. After all, this is the younger Marinaro’s first experience on the go-kart circuit this year. “Before I couldn’t even […]
The task ahead of Glen Edwards is nothing new. All the 22-year veteran coach of the Muskies’ hockey team has to do is take a very young hockey team, see them through a tryout camp, make the necessary cuts and have them ready to begin defence of their ‘AA’ all-Ontario […]
Heading into the annual Kitchen Creek Ladies Open, Carol Livingston had very little confidence in her game. It took a successful practice round of golf with two-time defending champion Christin Thomson on Thursday to convince her to go ahead and register. “I told Chrissy somewhere on the front nine [on […]
The Borderland Thunder of the Superior International Junior Hockey League (SIJHL) will hold another tryout camp this Friday–one which should help narrow down their roster before their first season starts next month. Two weeks ago, the Thunder had signed 12 players and had six or eight yet undecided after their […]
Tensions ran high as last Saturday’s annual Kitchen Creek Ladies Open boiled down to playoff between the town’s premiere junior and the town’s saaviest of veterans. And the vet won. Fifty-eight year-old Carol Livington beat two-time defending champion Christin Thomson in two holes of sudden death golf to capture her […]
Last night marked the opening of the Rainy River District Fastball League playoffs, with Sight and Sound (Fort Frances) falling 8-3 to the defending champion Emo Bulldogs. Bulldog veterans Shane Bliss and Don Copenace set the tone early, each belting home runs in the early innings to give Emo a […]
The annual Kitchen Creek Ladies Open tomorrow should be an interesting 18 holes as defending champ Christin Thomson faces a handful of contenders looking to snap her two-year reign. While Thomson, who fired a nine-over par 81 to win last year, has been looking to improve her game in out-of-town […]
The board of directors of the inaugural Superior International Junior Hockey League and representatives from the seven teams nixed the idea of putting a two-fight rule into effect this season, citing costs and reputation as the major reasons. Instead, players automatically will be ejected from games after one fight. The […]
Even though Christin Thomson’s fourth and final trip to the Canadian Junior National girls’ golf tournament last week saw her on the outside looking in, she’s happy to have competed with the best in the country. The Fort Frances native, 18, carded a three-round total of 252 (87-84-81) to finish […]
Oliver and Jason Gibbons of Sleeman earned top honours–and the $20,000 first prize–with a 44.17-pound total weight at the annual Kenora Bass International derby on Lake of the Woods last weekend. They posted catches of 11.76, 16.98, and 15.43 pounds–the latter two “big catches” of the day (each worth $750). […]
