While their past accomplishments are quite impressive, Raymond Roy’s rink knows full well that you can throw all that out the window as they prepare for the provincial mixed curling playdowns here this weekend. The team’s second, Wayne Beacham, was runner-up at the national mixed playdowns in 1988 while Roy […]
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Aquanauts Karli McKinnon, 10, and Boyd Badiuk, nine, combined for three silver medals and a bronze in their age group at the 18th-annual Prairie Winter Invitational meet in Winnipeg last weekend. McKinnon raced to second-place finishes in the 200m free and 50m free events while also taking third in the […]
While playing at the provincial level is nothing new for Angela Lee, what has changed for the new Northwestern Ontario junior ladies’ champ is her responsibility on the ice. Having played at the past two junior provincial playdowns for the Jackie Bonot rink, Lee got the chance to skip her […]
Tom Grant scored three goals to pace the Dryden Hornets to a 4-2 win over the Fort Frances B•Macs “AA” hockey team in the championship game of the Pizza Hut tournament in Thunder Bay on Sunday. The Hornets jumped out to a 3-0 first-period lead before Kevin Webb, assisted by […]
In Novice action, visiting Rainy River nipped the Emo Wings 3-2, scoring twice in the third period to steal the win. Bryce Marmus (two) and Kalan Ewald tallied for Rainy River while Tristan Mose and Jordan Davis replied for Emo. The Emo OPP fared a little better against the Times […]
St. Francis School captured the Region 1 Bantam volleyball crown here Saturday with a 15-9 and 15-13 win over Mine Centre and earned a berth to the all-Ontario showdown. St. Francis finished the four-team, double round-robin with a 4-2 record to earn a bye into the final. Thomas Aquinas, which […]
If there was any question the Muskies would be one of the dominant teams in NorWOSSA this season, that question was answered with an exclamation mark after a weekend series against Sioux Lookout here. The black-and-gold cruised to a 11-2 victory Friday night, then followed that up with a 10-3 […]
Calling it a “communication breakdown” between OFSAA and the Fort High athletic department, the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team did not compete in last week’s all-Ontario showdown in Barrie even though they qualified for it by winning the NorWOSSA crown. The Muskies earned that right with a 3-0 sweep over […]
After finishing with a 3-4 record at the senior men’s “Northwestern” curling playdowns, Terry Lee’s rink came away feeling they could have advanced to the provincials quite easily. But an 0-2 start, which saw the local rink lose 13-5 to Marathon and then 6-5 to Dryden (on last rock), left […]
After losing their round-robin game to Derek Jackson at the Zone 7 bonspiel here last weekend, Don DeBenedet’s rink had the unenviable task of having to beat him twice in the final to advance to the “Northwesterns.” But DeBenedet’s crew did just that Sunday afternoon, stunning Jackson 7-6 and then […]
Given their rash of early-season injuries, the Muskies would have been content with a split against the Red Lake Rams up there last weekend. But after winning the opener 4-2 on Friday night, the black-and-gold capped off the weekend when Jesse Rodrigues scored with four minutes left in overtime for […]
When Jackie Bonot’s rink jumped out to a 5-0 start in the Husky Oil Women’s Major Curling League in Thunder Bay, a few people on the circuit were surprised at their success. Bonot didn’t think it was a surprise at all. In fact, winning on the curling sheet is nothing […]
