Apparently losing the Mark Hopkins Memorial Tournament final isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a team. The host Hopper’s Bruins lost 5-3 at the ’52 Canadians Arena to the Thunder Bay Lumber Kings on Saturday night, headed to their locker-room, and took as much time as possible to […]
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The Muskie girls’ hockey team started out strong but then dropped both playoff games to finish fourth overall at the Sturgeon Heights Huskies 2007 Female Invitational Hockey Classic in Winnipeg over the weekend. The Muskies topped the Sanford Sabres 3-1 on Friday night, then battled the Dryden Eagles to a […]
What started as a Muskie boys’ invitational hockey tournament turned into a pair of exhibition losses as the black-and-gold lost a pair of games to the visiting Shattuck St. Mary’s Sabres by 4-2 scores over the weekend. While the losses weren’t easy to take, they were easy to believe coming […]
The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres went 0-3 on a road trip over the weekend, losing a pair of games to the Schreiber Diesels by 7-5 scores before falling 3-2 in overtime to the Thunder Bay Bearcats. Sunday’s loss in Thunder Bay marked the Sabres’ sixth in a row—and their eighth […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team’s first games of the season are two they’d likely rather forget after losing to the visiting Shattuck St. Mary’s Sabres by identical 4-2 scores over the weekend. While the exhibition losses weren’t easy to take, they were easy to believe coming against a tough ‘AAA’ […]
The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres were throttled with three-straight losses over the weekend—the first two at the hands of the Schreiber Diesels and last night to the Thunder Bay Bearcats. The Sabres lost by a pair of 7-5 margins to the Diesels, then fell 3-2 in overtime in Thunder Bay […]
In their first road trip of the season, the Muskie girls’ hockey team fought but came up short of a medal, finishing fourth at the Sturgeon Heights Huskies 2007 Female Invitational Hockey Classic in Winnipeg. The Muskies topped the Sanford Sabres 3-1 on Friday night, then tied the Dryden Eagles […]
The Muskie court teams wrapped up regular-season action here yesterday in a fashion that mirrored most of the NorWOSSA campaign—with a few key battles but the junior boys’ volleyball team as the lone shining light. The junior spikers beat the visiting Dryden Eagles in four sets, splitting the first two […]
The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team improved to 5-2 on the season after beating the host Kenora Broncos in four sets on Tuesday. The Muskies took the first two sets by scores of 25-19 and 25-18. The Broncos fought back for a 25-16 victory in the third set before falling […]
Recently, 191 chess players from all over Northern Ontario converged on Thunder Bay to battle it out in the Northern Ontario Schools’ Chess Championship finals. From Iroquois Falls to Rainy River, the players came to test their skill and strategy. For some of our players, it was a new experience […]
The first-annual “Run For Recovery,” hosted by the Parents Against Illicit Narcotics and the Borderland Bicycle Club to promote the awareness of youth substance abuse issues and the need for youth treatment services locally, was a great success Sunday. “We’re really pleased with the turnout,” said lead organizer Jeff Tilbury. […]
Local swimmers headed to Dryden on the weekend to open their season at the Monster Bash Invitational meet—and scared up a collection of medals just in time for Hallowe’en. “It went really good! Really good,” enthused Aquanauts’ coach Dawnn Taylor. “Everybody ended up with best times except for one, so […]
