In an attempt to bring senior football back to Thunder Bay, the newly-formed Thunder Bay Storm is looking to attract players from Northwestern Ontario to suit up in the new Central Senior Football League this season. The CSFL is looking for players who have graduated from NorWOSSA football and would […]
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With eight teams set to compete for this year’s “Borderland Ball Blast” men’s soccer tournament, organizers are starting to get a feel of the tournament’s potential. The tournament has attracted four teams from the local Borderland League, but more importantly, four out-of-town teams–Dryden Drillers, Horst Lang Falcons (Dryden), last year’s […]
Dave Mitchell powered his way to a first-place finish in his division–and second overall–at the Canadian Powerlifting Championships in Okotoks, Alta. (near Calgary) last weekend. The Fort Frances resident recorded a high lift of 584 pounds in the squat, 292 in bench press, and 562 in the deadlift en route […]
The average weight of the 497 bass caught over the three days of this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship jumped by nearly a quarter of a pound compared to the 1997 tournament, the area biologist for the local Ministry of Natural Resources office reported Tuesday. Darryl McLeod said the […]
When the first-annual Kid-Pro Am fishing tournament wrapped up last Thursday, organizers were elated to find the idea was just as big a hit with the pros as it was with the youngsters. In fact, Rick Socholotuk, who helped organize the tournament with Bill Morgenstern, said the three-hour, catch-and-release event […]
With most anglers grumbling under the tent the night before the derby began about the trouble they were having catching smallmouth bass while pre-fishing, Joe Thrun said he couldn’t believe they weren’t catching fish. Thrun and his partner, Jim Moynagh, both from the Minneapolis area, enjoyed an impressive pre-fish on […]
Jack Thompson fired a 75 to earn a two-stroke victory over Tom Bennett in a seniors’ tournament last Wednesday at Kitchen Creek Golf Course. Bennett’s 77 was the low gross score in the championship flight, one stroke better than Freddie Beck and Grant Green. Dick Burnett had the low net […]
“Teaching the art of diving since 1978,” the Blue H20 Sports Inc. was back in Fort Frances last week to train a new batch of scuba diving enthusiasts. The Northern Ontario unit of the Port Coquitlam-based company was offering a scuba diving course here for the fifth year. The other […]
The Thunder Bay Flyers yesterday announced local scout Shane Baker will be part of their full-time staff for the upcoming season. Baker, who will be responsible for players in the Northwestern Ontario region, joins Mark Pugliese (Thunder Bay), Rod McKenzie (Terrace Bay), Dwight Degiacomo (Minneapolis), Alan Young (Winnipeg), and Scott […]
The Emo Bulldogs used the long ball behind the two-hit pitching of Gus Copenace to dump the Thunder Bay Mariners 7-1 in the ‘A’-final Sunday at a fastball tournament in Kakabeka Falls. Dennis Mounk, Sean Taggart, and Sheldon Kelly all homered for the Bulldogs, who finished the tournament with a […]
He sits relaxed this afternoon. He has just finished up with a win on the Silverado, and earlier this month with a high finish at the Dennys tournament. Ted Capra is on a roll–although in his eyes, he isn’t doing as well as he had last year. Fishing tournaments throughout […]
The Sunset Merchants blew a three-run lead in the last inning of the championship game Sunday to fall 6-5 to the Gladstone Whips at the Intermediate ‘A’ Manitoba provincial fastball tournament in Winnipeg. Holding a comfortable 5-2 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh, the Merchants’ hopes of winning […]
