The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team lost 76-50 to the host International Falls Broncos on Tuesday night. The black-and-gold played the game shorthanded as they were without starters Morgan Anderson and DJ Howells, who were out of the lineup due to injury and personal reasons, respectively. Jeremy Strain led the […]
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The most valuable lessons often are learned from failure. Adam Bolen’s junior men’s rink and Jenna Enge’s junior women’s rink, representing the Fort Frances Curling Club, struggled at the provincial championships last week in Sault Ste. Marie—each winning just one game. However, despite the poor win-loss records, both teams’ coaches […]
NESTOR FALLS—The Nestor Falls Curling Club is celebrating a golden anniversary. This weekend (Jan. 19-21) marks the 50th year curlers from across Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba will compete at the club’s annual open bonspiel. In the half-century the event has been held, one local family has played an integral role […]
The three sheets of ice and coloured rocks make for a different sort of classroom, but the kids are just as eager to learn. Like a teacher would educate in school, curling instructor Candy Teeple educates the children on the rules, methods, and techniques of the game. “Who can tell […]
The Fort Frances Sportsmen’s “Get Outdoors” Club hiked through the boreal forest near Wasaw Lake last weekend. With the temperature at minus-21 C, they celebrated the first real wintry weather of the year. As they hiked, they practised their compass skills as they found their way to a frozen swamp […]
It’s one of the oldest scenarios in hockey. One team fails to take advantage of a golden opportunity at one end of the ice, only to have the opposition gain possession of the puck and capitalize on a chance at the other end moments later. Leading 1-0 in the third […]
Injuries are an inevitable part of tournament hockey. More often than not, the team that manages to avoid being bitten by the injury bug also is the one that hoists the trophy as tournament champion late Sunday afternoon. Despite a gutsy effort, the Fort Frances Legion hockey team could not […]
The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team began the second half of its season with a third-place finish at the Westwood Collegiate tournament over the weekend in Winnipeg. The six-team competition—also featuring the host Warriors, Murdoch McKay, Louis Riel, Kelvin, and Sturgeon Creek—marked the first game action the Muskies had seen […]
Former Muskie Luke Judson, now a member of the Thunder Bay Minor Midget Kings, was named the top forward at the Winnipeg ‘AAA’ Hockey City Midget all-star game last weekend. Judson scored two goals and added two assists to help Team East to an easy 9-1 victory. • • • Thunder Bay […]
It pays to stick to the plan. The Holmlund Leafs had a game plan going into the all-Fort Frances ‘B’ final of the local Bantam ‘A’ tournament and executed it to perfection en route to a 4-2 victory over the Canadian Tire Sabres on Sunday afternoon at the Ice for […]
It’s a long-standing sports adage—defence wins championships. Well, the Fort Frances Canadians struggled with their defensive zone coverage and, as a result, were eliminated in the semi-finals of the consolation bracket at a 16-team tournament in Wayzata, Mn. over the weekend. “Basically we struggled in our own end,” Canadians’ head […]
Vianets (6-1) saw their bid for an undefeated season fall by the wayside Monday night when they lost 73-65 to La Place Rendez-Vous (5-2) in Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action at Fort High. The league’s previously only undefeated squad squandered a 22-point advantage en route to their first loss. […]
