Last year, Aaron Loken won the Kitchen Creek Classic almost by default after the second and final round was washed out by thunderstorms. This time around, the International Falls golfer, 22, wanted to make sure no one thought last year’s victory was just a fluke. And he did just that, […]
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It will take more than hard work on the football field to crack the lineup on the Muskie football teams this season. “It’s important what you do out here,” said Bob Swing, head coach for the ‘A/B’ teams, as he pointed to the field during the opening night of training […]
It wasn’t a big fish as sturgeon go but it was large enough for Brian Bakken to win capture the annual North American Sturgeon Championship last Saturday in Birchdale, Mn. Bakken, a resident of Roseau, Mn., reeled in a 50.25-inch sturgeon from Rainy River with only 20 minutes left in […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team hasn’t been officially selected yet, and assistant coach Ken Christiansen noted nobody’s spot on the roster is secure. “Tryouts aren’t over. We just hold tryouts now so we can cut the team down to workable numbers,” he explained. “We do it in the summer because […]
The “underdogs” hung tough most of the way but they eventually fell 10-4 to Team #1 in the annual Rainy River District Fastball League’s all-star game last Thursday in Barwick. “They were tied for most of the game,” noted organizer George Oltsher, who also managed Team #1. “In the bottom […]
Allison Hyatt recently discovered the Ontario Summer Games aren’t about winning the gold, they’re about what you learn along the way. Hyatt, 15, of Mine Centre was a member of the regional girls’ volleyball team that competed at the Games held Aug. 11-13 in Durham Region, where they finished fifth […]
Local Ministry of Natural Resources biologist Darryl McLeod won’t know all the figures until as late as January but early indicators show the Rainy Lake bass fishery is as healthy as it’s ever been. After sampling 501 fish caught during last month’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, the total, average, […]
The AA Developmental hockey camp had a successful year with some growing pains but it will run again next summer–possibly with a few changes. “It was a real big success,” co-owner and instructor Mike Allison noted Tuesday. “There were some growing pains we had to work out the first week […]
Wayne Both and Sheldon Mose led the pack during the second-annual Barwick canoe race Saturday on Rainy River, which was held in conjunction with Chapple Day 2000. The pair finished the roughly six-km route from the Manitou Rapids landing to the Barwick dock in 43 minutes, which also include a […]
Caring for and reviving the fish caught during the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship–which had been taken from live wells, weighed, displayed to audience, held in tanks, and then measured and aged before taking them back to Rainy Lake–requires much effort and a great number of volunteers. According to Leo […]
The Border Figure Skating Club needs higher numbers to successfully run its summer programs–and right now they are so close. “As it is right now, we are just under the break even point,” said Marla Bekesi, public relations rep for the BFSC. “We are still hoping to get the numbers […]
Seeded as the top team to beat in the Minnesota Sports Federation 15 and under state baseball tournament on the weekend of July 22, Eden Prairie sparkled in the games they had won but fizzled in the two games they should have had tucked under their belts. During the regular […]
