Unfortunately, the third time wasn’t a charm for the Muskie girls’ curling team. Competing at NWOSSAA for the third time in four years, the Amy Nielson rink once again fell short of a berth to the all-Ontarios—winding up in second place after winning a tie-breaker yesterday afternoon. “This is our […]
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And the Oscar goes to . . . Okay, okay, so it wasn’t quite the Academy Awards, but the Borderland Thunder’s awards banquet Sunday night at the local Legion was meaningful nonetheless. And when all was said and done, Kurt Hogard was the big winner, collecting the trophies for top […]
While the Tim Hortons Brier was being shown on two TV screens upstairs in the curling club over the weekend, Fort Frances’ equivalent was being held on the sheets down below. Thirty-two rinks took part in the annual men’s bonspiel this year, and it was the Scott Gobeil foursome who […]
A few weeks before she was to board a plane for Nagano, Japan, Joyce Gosselin spoke these words: “I want the gold really bad. That’s what I’m hoping for,” she had said. “I want to come back with something, and not just a ribbon.” She made good on her aspirations […]
Like Batman watching over Gotham City, Dave Allison had the best seat in the house last night as he was perched above the zamboni entrance at the Ice for Kids Arena. Allison was there, and not on the Borderland Thunder bench, because he was serving the last of his six-game […]
Like the Jeffersons, the Muskie boys’ hockey team is movin’ on up—to the all-Ontarios, that is. The black-and-gold stamped themselves a ticket to Windsor last night with a dramatic 2-1 win over the host Dryden Eagles to take the best-of-three NorWOSSA final two games to one. After losing the opening […]
The Muskie girls’ rink will finish in either second or third place at the NWOSSAA curling championships which wrap up today at the Nipigon and Red Rock Curling Club. Amy Nielson, whose rink includes third Jenna Enge, second Kate Bondett, and lead Courtney Beadle, were 3-2 heading into this afternoon’s […]
The Borderland Thunder will close out their regular-season schedule here tonight against the Dryden Ice Dogs. Game time is slated for 7:30 p.m. at the Ice for Kids Arena. The game means nothing for the Thunder in terms of the standings, having already locked up second place. But it’s an […]
Just how dominating were the Borderland Thunder in their weekend series against the visiting KC Bulldogs. They took 171 shots—and sounded the horn on 18 of them. “What was good is that it didn’t turn into a one-man show where one guy was trying to dangle and take the show,” […]
Three Muskie swimmers had qualified for the OFSAA swimming championships, which wrapped up yesterday at the Etobicoke Olympium in Toronto. Heather Dutton, competing in the senior girls’ division, finished fifth in the 200m free with a time of 2:14.72 and came eighth in the 100m Open fly with a time […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team will be in Dryden tonight to open their best-of-three NorWOSSA final against the Eagles. Game 2 is slated here Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Ice for Kids Arena, with Game 3, if necessary, back in Dryden on Tuesday night. The winner advances to the […]
Joyce Gosselin captured another medal at the 2005 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, earning a silver today in the 4x100m snowshoe relay. She and teammates Josee Camire, Sara Jane Daigle, and Corrie Anne Carlile finished the relay in 4:32.74—second behind the American team that won in a […]
