Room 134 at Fort Frances High School, which is the Social Science work room, was the place of choice. That’s where the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team met after a disheartening straight-set loss to the Dryden Eagles here last Thursday afternoon. They enclosed themselves in the room for about 20 […]
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It’s simple arithmetic, really. You had 16 teams vying for three available spots, which equalled about a 20 percent chance for a team to advance to the provincials heading into the Northwestern Ontario men’s playdowns last Thursday. Those were the odds facing the Lorne Jackson rink which represented Fort Frances […]
“I live this life until this life won’t let me live here anymore.”—Big & Rich (Live This Life) Tyler Gordon held a puck in his hand. Nothing fancy, just a $1 piece of rubber polymer. But this one was special. This one was different. After a horribly exhausting few weeks […]
The Borderland Thunder head to Dryden tomorrow night for what will be their last game before a 10-day break. The Thunder currently sit in second place in the SIJHL with a 24-6-3 record, behind the front-running Fort William First Nation North Stars, while the Ice Dogs are in third with […]
There’s nothing like a Friday night in Eveleth, Mn. to restore your shooting eye, ambush your coach with snowballs, and send a local restaurant into a frenzy. The Muskie girls’ hockey team delivered a scintillating performance Friday night at the Eveleth Hippodrome, firing 50 shots on goal en route to […]
Entering their series against the Fort William First Nation North Stars here over the weekend, the Borderland Thunder were looking to put some doubt in the minds of the SIJHL’s top team. And after a 0-0 overtime tie on Friday night, the Thunder accomplished just that. “If we get past […]
The Lorne Jackson rink of Fort Frances failed to advance to the provincial playdowns after finishing with a 2-3 record at the Northwestern Ontario men’s showdown in Terrace Bay last week. Jackson’s rink, which included Don DeBenedet, Derek Jackson, and Mike Kjerulf, began play Thursday with an 11-3 loss to […]
Once again it was a junior team that prevented the Muskies from being swept. This time, the Muskie junior boys’ basketball team came away with a 49-26 victory over the Dryden Eagles in NorWOSSA action here yesterday afternoon, boosting their record to 2-4 with only two games left before the […]
The Lorne Jackson rink of Fort Frances faced a must-win situation in their draw which started at noon (EST) today in order to stay alive at the Northwestern Ontario men’s curling playdowns in Terrace Bay. They were up against Wayne Hampson of Red Lake (the outcome wasn’t known by press […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team was not able to close the gap with the first-place Dryden Eagles, falling by a 2-1 score there last night. Brian White had the lone goal for the black-and-gold, which came unassisted on the power play in the third period. “It wasn’t such a bad […]
It wasn’t just cold, it was freakin’ cold. Forgive the language, but if you attended the 25th-annual “Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run” at Rainy River Community College in International Falls on Saturday afternoon, then you probably would have been using language much cruder than that. “Why? It’s probably the same […]
Coulda-woulda-shouda. These three words may have been used to distinguish a popular “Sex in the City” episode, but they also can describe the Borderland Thunder’s performance in Thunder Bay last weekend. Sure, they won two of the three games, but against inferior competition they coulda-woulda-shouda played much better. And, of […]
