The local Sunset Country Ford Mustangs ‘AA’ Atoms finished fourth at a 32-team hockey tournament in Fargo, N.D. last weekend, losing 5-1 to West Valley, Cal. in the third-place game. Josh Sigurdson had put the Mustangs up 1-0 in the first period but West Valley stormed back with five unanswered […]
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Despite battling injury and the ’flu in preparation for last weekend’s Minnesota State Powerlifting Championships in Duluth, Dean Patrow combined to lift 1,700 pounds to lead the 48-person field. Patrow, 43, of Fort Frances–now setting his sights on the Canadian championships in Taber, Alta. in May–stole the show at the […]
Trailing 6-0 after just two ends to Dorothy Holmgren, the odds of Lois Tabak winning her first-ever ladies’ curling bonspiel definitely weren’t in her favour. True, she managed to score three in the third end to cut the lead in half but then gave up one in the fourth and […]
The local trio of Don Smeeth, Annelise Hawrylak, and Geoffrey Smeeth bowled over the competition at the Master/Bantam tournament here Sunday, earning a berth to the provincial showdown March 11-12 in Thunder Bay. They combined to finish a whopping +403 over their average in the six-game roll-off–well ahead of the […]
The local KC ‘AA’ PeeWees breezed through the field at a tournament in Sioux Lookout last weekend–often winning in lopsided fashion. That is, until they reached the championship game. The KCs fell just short of the tourney title, losing 2-1 in overtime to the Dryden Apollos, who avenged a 5-2 […]
The local Canadian Tire Bantam ‘A’ team lost 4-2 to Red Lake in the ‘B’ semi-finals of a tournament in Dryden on Sunday. Jamie Krukoski and Dave Starling each scored in the loss. Canadian Tire finished the round-robin with a 2-2 record, opening action Friday morning with a 3-0 shutout […]
Mary Beth Tkachuk fought back from a 2-0 deficit Sunday to beat Connee Badiuk in the best-of-five final of the women’s ‘B’ division at the 13th-annual La Place Rendez-Vous squash tournament here. Tkachuk trailed 7-2 in the third game of the match before charging back. She then won the next […]
The Sioux Hawks ‘AAA’ Bantam team salvaged a split of their weekend series with the Atikokan Voyageurs ‘AA’ thanks to a 9-4 win Sunday. A.J. Tucker, who plays locally for the B•Macs, scored three times to lead the Hawks to victory. Matt Miller and Adam Clark each added a pair […]
West End Motors captured the title of a Tom Thumb tournament in Keewatin on Sunday, nipping Skates & Blades 4-3 in a shootout in an all-Fort Frances championship final. Ben Drazenovich netted the game-winner in the shootout after both teams failed to score in a 3-on-3 five-minute overtime. West End […]
Three local fighters picked up medals at the 2000 Inner City Judo Open at Tec Voc High School in Winnipeg last weekend. Jared Catholique-Bruyere, fighting in the orange/brown class, earned gold in the under-74 kg division after winning both of his fights. Black belt Billy Deschamps picked up silver in […]
It takes a lot of heart to go out and win a NorWOSSA cheerleading championship. So when Muskie coach Chantelle Johnson couldn’t make it to the NorWOSSA showdown in Kenora on Saturday, she decided to give the girls some inspiration–and a heart sticker–to put inside their uniforms. And it worked […]
The Emo Atom Selects could not keep pace with visiting Gillons’ (Fort Frances) in recent minor hockey action, coming out on the short end of a 3-1 score. Andrew Easton (two) and Chad Dustak scored for Gillons’ while Eric Soucy replied for the Selects. But the Emo Esso Leafs had […]
