Press Release The Fort Frances PeeWee ‘AA’ hockey team only has ever been known to the local fans as the K of C PeeWees. But after 73 years of dedication and sponsorship to the Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association and the PeeWee ‘AA’ squad, the Knights of Columbus have turned […]
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Press Release The local Boston Pizza Royals PeeWee ‘AA’ team headed to Thunder Bay over the weekend to participate in the Pizza Hut Wing Street Fall Classic hockey tournament. During round-robin play, the team held the North End Flames to a 1-1 tie on Friday, then went on to defeat […]
Staff It was a tale of two very different hockey games. After trading goals at a breakneck pace with Dryden in their preliminary-round match-up, the Fort Frances Atom ‘AA’ Snipers had only one bullet pierce the host squad’s armour with the championship on the line. Thankfully for them, it was […]
Staff Kermit the Frog once sang “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” But a group of PeeWee pucksters showed this past weekend it’s pretty sweet being Green’s. Matt Cheetham netted the lone goal of the shootout to give Green’s a 4-3 win Sunday over the Current River Ice Comets (Thunder Bay) […]
Staff Now will host Vikings for OFSAA berth Defence, indeed, wins championships. The senior Muskie girls’ basketball team punched their ticket to the best-of-three NWOSSAA playoffs by playing stifling defence in a 28-12 win over the host Kenora Broncos in the NorWOSSA final last Thursday. The Broncos were on a […]
Staff Fort Frances Thunderhawks’ fans have been sent a clear message: there’s no guarantee of success for the newly-formed senior men’s hockey team this season, but the squad won’t be lacking when it comes to providing excitement. A furious comeback from a three-goal deficit in their season-opener against visiting Kenora […]
Staff Duane Roen said earlier this month he wasn’t going to assume his Muskie squad was the best junior boys’ volleyball outfit in NorWOSSA until he had the championship trophy in his hands. Alas, his sense of foreshadowing was all too accurate for his tastes. The Muskies watched defending champion […]
Staff Church was not in session, at least as far as the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team was concerned. The Muskies frustrated Morgan Church, the Dryden Eagles’ leading scorer, for most of the game and used overwhelming first- and third-quarter performances to emerge with a 36-25 victory in the NorWOSSA […]
Staff Any hockey coach worth their salt is a firm believer in the concept that playing good hockey for only parts of a game more often than will not lead to bad news on the scoreboard at the final buzzer. Wayne Strachan most likely subscribed to that theory before last […]
Staff Hunting season is in full force in Rainy River District, but deer and moose are not Shane Bliss’ target—it’s a head football coach. The Fort High athletic director is putting out a public appeal in hopes of snaring a viable candidate to become the new man in charge along […]
Staff Coming off a pre-season which included a silver medal at their home tournament and a consolation championship in Winnipeg, the Muskie girls’ hockey team were licking their chops at the prospect of a high-octane start to the NorWOSSA regular season. Instead, their engine failed to click on all cylinders, […]
Staff It’s a childhood fantasy played out on thousands of backyard rinks and frozen ponds across Canada by innumerable young hockey players every year—scoring the game-winning goal in a big game in the dying seconds. Matt DePiero lived the dream in Morden, Man. on the weekend. DePiero was handed the […]
