The Canada Cup of Curling opens today with three draws. Women take to the ice for the morning draw, with Marie-France Larouche taking on Michelle Englot, Colleen Jones doing battle with Anne Merklinger, Shannon Kleibrink going up against Heather Smith-Dacey, Jo-Ann Rizzo playing Cheryl Bernard, and Jan Betker taking on […]
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As a tune-up for their trip to the all-Ontarios in Windsor later this month, the Muskie boys’ hockey team will play an exhibition game against the Western District Taggs Bantam ‘AAA’ team tomorrow night. Game time is set for 6:45 p.m. at the Ice for Kids Arena. The black-and-gold also […]
Farewell to Nova Scotia at the 2005 Tim Hortons Brier—Randy Ferbey of Alberta has regained the Canadian men’s curling championship. The powerhouse Edmonton rink beat Shawn Adams 5-4 in yesterday’s final on Dave Nedohin’s 10th-end draw—avenging a loss to Nova Scotia’s Mark Dacey in last year’s title match. “It is […]
With a $30,000 (U.S.) bonus tucked inside his pocket, Jimmie Johnson headed to the casino to celebrate his latest victory. If he can run the tables the same way he’s running the Nextel Cup series, he might just break the bank. Johnson ended the Roush Racing stranglehold at Las Vegas […]
Scott Gobeil of Fort Frances and his Team Manitoba rink went 1-1 on the opening day of the Canadian Police Curling Championships yesterday at the Granite Curling Club in Winnipeg. Gobeil, whose rink includes third Tom Norton, second Rob Newman, and lead Pete LeDrew, started out well in romping to […]
The Canadian Police Curling Championship gets underway this weekend in Winnipeg and Scott Gobeil once again will be taking part. Gobeil will be skipping Team Manitoba at the Granite Curling Club, with this being his 10th appearance at the police nationals. His rink, which includes third Tom Norton, second Rob […]
The Fort Frances Midget ‘AA’ Canadians found themselves playing three games in three days here over the weekend, but managed to win two of them. “We do a lot of conditioning with the boys all the time, so the boys have been training for this the whole season,” noted coach […]
The eighth-annual “Silver Fox” Master squash tournament, for those aged 35 and older, was held in Thunder Bay last weekend, which saw three ladies from the local Sunset Country Squash Club attend. Donna Main, competing in the ‘D’ event, eventually lost to John Kolic of Thunder Bay by a score […]
The local KFC Colonels captured the ‘B’ crown at a PeeWee ‘A’ hockey tournament in Emo last weekend, beating the Fort Frances Lions 4-1 in the final. Jacob Smith netted a hat trick to lead the Colonels while Timothy Metke got their other goal. Assists went to Justin Anderson, Braedon […]
Peter Jensen, 12, and Donovan Taylor, 10, were in Winnipeg last weekend for the St. James Seal Program II long course meet. It was the first long course meet (50m pool) of the season for the Cyclone Swim Club members, who were competing against 200 12-and-under swimmers from 14 other […]
Local swimmer Alex Parent, 15, has been named to Team Ontario. This means the member of the Fort Frances Aquanauts will represent the province at the Canada Games in Regina in August in the Paralympic division. Parent competed with two other clubmates, Jessica Lowey and Nichole Lowey, at the Junior […]
Jen Grozelle finished with a +481 to capture top spot in the women’s division at the provincial P.O.A. championships in Timmins last weekend. The Fort Frances bowler also qualified for the Northern Ontario team that will compete at the national championships in Saskatoon in May. Grozelle, a first-time bowler who […]
