The International Falls Broncos boys’ hockey team got a fair dose of revenge on home ice against the Muskies, handing them a 7-1 shellacking Tuesday night. The Broncos jumped out to a 2-0 lead after one period before Ryan Witherspoon scored the Muskies’ lone tally from George Halverson and Pat […]
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FORT FRANCES—Fort Frances will host the SIJHL’s best and brightest this weekend as six representatives from all seven teams will participate in the annual all-star game. In addition to the game between Team Regional and Team Thunder Bay on Saturday (Feb. 2) at 3:15 p.m., a skills competition featuring the […]
Short by almost half a team for one game, and facing a determined Thunder Bay Bulldogs’ squad, the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres earned a sweep over the weekend here and fulfilled their goal to attain at least a .500 record by the end of January. Friday night’s 4-2 win, coupled […]
High school sports is synonymous with pressure situations: the green quarterback throwing a “Hail Mary” pass; the inexperienced goalie staring down a hulking forward on a breakaway; the basketball team celebrating after draining a buzzer-beater before the long bus ride home. The pressure facing more high school athletes than any […]
The opponents changed but the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres kept rolling along, earning a pair of wins and fulfilling their goal of entering February with at least a .500 record. Friday’s 4-2 win and Saturday’s 6-4 victory over the visiting Thunder Bay Bulldogs gave the Sabres’ their second-consecutive sweep and […]
The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ last game before the SIJHL All-Star break has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 30. The home game against the Dryden Ice Dogs—erroneously listed in the Sabres program and elsewhere as a match against the Thunder Bay Bulldogs —originally slated for Jan. 29 will instead be […]
The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team downed the Lake of the Woods Bears (Baudette) 59-50 in an exhibition match Tuesday night. Travis Stromness led the black-and-gold with 17 points, with Garnett Cornell and Joey Theriault each netting 14. Due to exams, the squad doesn’t resume NorWOSSA season until Thursday, Feb. […]
The Coffee Landing Metro in International Falls provided the venue for the international duplicate bridge tournament held annually in conjunction with Icebox Days. The Thursday night winners were U.S. Rainy Lake residents Ralph and Cathy Awe (67 points), followed by Falls duo Rita Ruelle and Toni Shermoen (60 points) and […]
The local Lakewood Tire Eagles under-10 girls’ hockey team participated in a tournament in Hibbing over the weekend and came away with the consolation crown. The girls opened the tournament with a tough 3-0 loss to International Falls but rebounded that afternoon with a 11-1 win over Grand Rapids, Mn. […]
The Fort Frances Canadians had to settle for being the fourth-best team at the Wayzata Junior Gold ‘A’ Invitational hockey tournament over the weekend after the local Midget ‘AA’ team fell 3-2 in the consolation final. “When it’s all said and done, I thought we did pretty good. Out of […]
Craig Brockie, a Fort Frances native who now lives in British Columbia, still believes in the young hockey talent we have here in Fort Frances. Brockie and his business—Brockie.org—are the proud sponsors of the local Atom ‘AA’ hockey team which captured the gold medal at a tournament in Baudette, Mn. […]
Both Muskie boys’ basketball teams headed out for exhibition tournaments over the weekend and found some tough resistance in what otherwise have been very successful seasons so far. The junior boys ended up splitting their four games up in Dryden—despite starting out with a 38-33 win versus Churchill in overtime […]
