It might be 20 degrees below zero outside, and high school football has been over for at least three months, but the Muskie Touchdown Club held its annual awards night last Wednesday. Many players and their parents gathered at the Little Beaver Snow Park for a spaghetti supper and an […]
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The Fort Frances Junior Sabres garnered four of a possible six points over the weekend as they went skate to skate with the Fort William North Stars Friday and Saturday nights, and the Schreiber Diesel yesterday afternoon. With the victories, the Sabres reached 42 points on the season, and opened […]
The Muskies boys earned a pair of convincing wins over the Red Lake Rams last weekend to claim top spot in NorWOSSA for the second-consecutive season. Backstopped by David Moen on Saturday afternoon and Justin Pryde on Friday night, the Muskies gave up just three goals, while pumping 16 past […]
The 10th-annual Fort Frances Girls Hockey Association Pee Wee and Bantam hockey tournament wrapped up yesterday, amid congratulations from those in attendance. The popular 17 team tournament, featured nine Pee Wee teams and eight Bantam squads from around the region, including International Falls, Baudette, and Greenway, Min. Locally, on the […]
The Muskie girls’ hockey team missed a chance to clinch first place in NorWOSSA hockey action last night, dropping a 6-4 decision to the host Dryden Eagles. The Eagles—still smarting from a 2-1 home loss to Kenora on Tuesday night—scored four times in the first period to take control of […]
The SIJHL has accepted “with regrets” the resignation of the Marathon Renegades franchise. The removal of the team from the rest of the SIJHL schedule stemmed from player concerns over their health and safety if they continued to play with a depleted roster brought about by some earlier defections and […]
The Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ hockey team continued its season of strong performances with a pair of road wins on the weekend. The Canadians skated in the Duluth Junior Gold Invitational Tournament last Friday and Saturday and just missed qualifying for the tournament’s “final four” playoff round. The 16-team […]
The Northwestern Ontario Region 1 and 2 boys’ and girls’ Bantam playdowns were hosted by the Stratton curling club this past weekend. Although a few games had been played earlier in the day, the official opening ceremonies were held Friday at 7 p.m. Morley Reeve Gary Gamsby welcomed the curlers […]
The chalet was a flurry of activity early Saturday morning as volunteers geared up for the first-annual Rocky Cup Race, held by the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club at its Rocky Inlet trail system. As the scheduled 11 a.m. race time drew near, and ski boots were snapped into their […]
The local 99ers Brockie.org Atom ‘AA’ hockey team hosted Dryden, Kenora, Red Lake, and two teams from Thunder Bay for a tournament over the weekend. The 99ers opened round-robin play by blanking the Westfort Rangers 9-0 and then crushed the Red Lake Rockets 14-1 in their second game. The Dryden […]
Bolen, Lee, Bonot, Shrumm. If you take down a few photo albums from the shelf on the back wall of the Stratton curling club, it doesn’t take long to realize the community has an impressive history of producing champion curlers. You might wonder why that is. Many will tell you […]
The 49th-annual Northern Ontario Provincial Fire Fighters Curling Championships will take place this weekend (Feb. 8-10) at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Hosted by the Alberton firefighters, 22 teams will battle for the right to represent Northern Ontario at the national showdown March 26-April 4 in Richmond, B.C. This national […]
