The Muskie hockey team will be holding its tryout camp for the 1997-98 season Aug. 18-23 at Memorial Arena–two months earlier than in past years. The training camp, which usually begins in the last week of October, is a break from tradition, said head coach Terry Ogden, adding this year’s […]
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Winnipeg is busily preparing to host more than 7,000 athletes, coaches and media from more than 40 countries for the 1999 Pan American Games, and one of the chief organizers once made her home right here in Fort Frances. Laurie Nealin, a Thunder Bay native who lived here for eight […]
Peter Leek took the checkered flag in the modified feature race last Friday at the Emo Speedway, finishing as the top points driver on the night with 55. Leek, who also finished second in the second heat, was followed in the feature by Rick Roche, Greg Ferris and Tom Jackson. […]
Borderland Ball Blast ’97, which features a men’s soccer tournament and an adult mixed slo-pitch one, goes for the first time this weekend at the St. Francis Sports Field. The three-day event is offering $3,000 in cash prizes altogether, and 10 free tickets per team for the social slated Saturday […]
Sarah McComb, 10, and Shane Katona, 14, both members of the Border Figure Skating Club here, have been invited to participate in the Northern Ontario Section Skaters Development Camp in North Bay on Aug. 25-27. The camp, organized to select about 60 of the most promising skaters from various regions […]
Emo Speedway promoter Sonny Ferris admitted they have experienced attendance problems this season, forcing him to slice drivers’ payouts. With an average decrease of “around 75 to 100” spectators each Friday night of racing, Ferris was forced to slice the top payout to the drivers in each division in order […]
The Sunset Merchants finished out of playoff contention at the Intermediate ‘A’ fastball championship last weekend in Steinbach, Man., winding up with a 2-2 record. The Merchants, representing the Rainy River District Fastball League, won the provincial crown last season after finishing the tournament with a perfect 8-0 record. The […]
Eadie Stephenson of Winnipeg needed a playoff hole to beat local golfer Carol Livingston by one stroke at the annual ladies tournament Saturday at Kitchen Creek. Both carded 77 after 18 holes, setting the stage for Stephenson’s victory on the first sudden-death playoff hole. She managed to par the 10th […]
While the other twosomes carried their fish across the stage to be weighed Sunday afternoon, the teams of Dave and Norm Lindsay, Frank and Terry McClymont, Mike Salvador and Ken Wright, Gary Lake and Randy Amenrud, and Rick Savage and Steven Green waited on the dock. These five teams were […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources reported a “significant” increase in the average weight of the 492 bass caught and tagged during this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. Darryl McLeod, area biologist with the MNR here, said they found the average weight of this year’s bass hauled in by the […]
“Anyone in the top 20 can win this tournament tomorrow,” Dave Lindsay said during Saturday afternoon’s weigh-in at the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. “I hate to be in first place for the first two days of fishing.” On Sunday, the Lindsay brothers were far down on the third dock […]
The Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is definitely making a name for itself in the fishing world. And in the eyes of the anglers, it’s one of the best bass tournaments around. But what is it that sets this derby apart from the others? According to Phil Killeen of Winnipeg, […]
