It’s a rematch they’ve waited for all season. With the memory of a 70-38 pasting at the hands of the Hammarskjold Vikings earlier this season, the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team would love nothing better than to turn the tables on their Thunder Bay rivals in the best-of-three NWOSSAA showdown […]
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The Muskies expect Dryden to use a physical style of game when the two teams open the best-of-three NorWOSSA final here Friday night. But it remains to be seen whether the Eagles will have any more success than the Kenora Broncos did against the black-and-gold in the semi-finals over the […]
Playing together at the high school level for the last time, the Rainy River Owl rink–skipped by Angela Lee–would have liked to have finished on a winning note. But their season screeched to a halt yesterday afternoon at the NWOSSAA playdowns in Marathon with a 7-6 loss to Nipigon-Red Rock, […]
The local B•Macs ‘AA’ Bantam hockey team lost 8-2 to Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minneapolis) in the semi-finals of a tournament in Brandon on Sunday. Shattuck, a private school coached by former NHL’er J.P. Parise, jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Clayton Windigo and Jordan Wilson got the B•Macs back in […]
The senior girls’ bowling team, representing Plaza Lanes at the 4-Steps to Stardom zone competition in Dryden last weekend, won the gold medal and now will represent Sunset Country at the provincials March 18-19 in Thunder Bay. They finished with a 2,804 pin total–just 34 ahead of Timber Lanes (Dryden). […]
Hillary Morgan received the top mark at the women’s provincial level in the qualifier last weekend at the Confederation College “Bubble” with an overall score of 53.1 for the total of her optional and compulsory routines. She received the 2000 gold medal award competing against seven other prov. 2 athletes […]
The Aquanauts had an excellent meet at the regionals in Thunder Bay last weekend, breaking three club records and finishing with several medals en route to a third-place finish overall. “It was probably our best finish at a meet in a long time,” head coach Debbie Murray said, admitting she […]
Westfort NAPA skated away with an impressive 5-1 win over Kenora Red Esso to capture the Emo Legion ‘A’ event at an Atom tournament last weekend in Emo. Leading 2-1 after two, Westfort iced the victory with three unanswered goals in the third. Joseph Zewiec and Jeremy Puhalski each scored […]
Despite the unusually mild weather that’s melted all the snow and weakened the ice on area lakes, the first-annual Canadian Kitty Cat championships are still slated to run here Saturday. The event–which is part of the KC Pro East Racing Club circuit–will go on Sand Bay in front of Rusty […]
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 […]
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 […]
