The Muskie football team is gearing up for their first game of the season against Sturgeon Heights after an afternoon of exhibition matches last Thursday that were equal parts humbling and educating. “It was a good learning experience for all our young players. They showed lots of promise,” said Muskie […]
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The Barwick Blue Knights are known for putting away the Sight & Sound Wolves when it counts—cementing that reputation with an exciting 3-2 comeback victory in extra innings of the Rainy River District Fastball League final last Thursday evening. The key play behind the Knights’ repeating as league champs was […]
FORT FRANCES—The Fort Frances Gymnastics Club may be shutting its doors for good and almost certainly will sell its building next to The Beer Store, according to board members. The move to mothball the club is one no one is happy with, said president Diane Boustead, but faced with a […]
Hockey fans hoping to get some golf in this weekend should head to Kitchen Creek for a best ball-format tournament hosted by the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres starting at 11 a.m. tomorrow. The tournament, in which golfers aim for the best drive from the white tees on each of the […]
The Barwick Blue Knights are two-time champions of the Rainy River District Fastball League following a thrilling 3-2 victory over the Sight & Sound Wolves in extra innings last night in which shortstop Vaughn Wilson scored the winning run by stealing home. Wilson reached second on an error in the […]
Three athletes, two builders, and a national championship team will make up this year’s slate of Inductees to enter the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. The 26th-annual induction dinner and ceremonies are set for the Valhalla Inn ballroom in Thunder Bay on Saturday, Sept. 29. < *c>Athletes Thunder Bay’s […]
The Rendezvous Yacht Club held a new race back on Saturday, Aug. 18 with Colin Hewitt taking top honours. Traditionally, the mid-August race has been held in Ranier, Mn. in conjunction with Founder’s Day or the Ranier Summer Festival. This year, the club decided to run the race out of […]
The Sight & Sound Wolves are headed for the Rainy River District Fastball League championship against rival Barwick after a close 3-2 victory against the Stratton Eagles. While Stratton looked masterful in the field, the deciding factor in the win was Sight & Sounds home runs, hit by manager and […]
Dale LaBelle of Devlin and Karl Howells of Fort Frances did what seemed inevitable at the third-annual International Falls Bass Championship last weekend. After finishing third and second, respectively, in the first two tournaments, they captured top spot this time around thanks to a record 18.68-pound bag on Saturday. The […]
The Sight & Sound Wolves are headed for the Rainy River District Fastball League championship against rival Barwick after a close 3-2 victory against the Stratton Eagles. While Stratton looked masterful in the field, the deciding factor in the win was Sight & Sounds home runs, hit by manager and […]
The Muskie football team, practising each afternoon for the past week-and-a-half, will get its first taste of game action in 2007 tomorrow when the squad plays a quartet of half-hour scrimmages in Winnipeg starting at 4 p.m. “We’re still assessing everyone. All the positions are still open,” head coach Vince […]
The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres wrapped up their final camp Sunday, leaving with a 17-man roster that will serve as the template for the SIJHL expansion franchise’s first season. Head coach Wayne Strachan said he’s “a lot happier now than after the last camp,” when his out-of-town veterans had yet […]
