There aren’t too many positives you can find after a 4-1 loss, but that’s what the Borderland Thunder will try to do after their disappointing defeat at the hands of the host Dryden Ice Dogs last night. “We’ve had slippage in our habits,” said head coach Dave Allison. “We’ve had […]
Local Sports
The annual M.E.C. bonspiel took place last weekend at the Fort Frances Curling Club, with the Ron Bridgeman rink winning the ‘A’ event. His team included Diane Ross, Gary Cousinear, and Ron Mondor. Taking second place in the ‘A’ event was the Ron McLeod rink (also including Becky Robinson, Joc […]
“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 […]
Fort Frances and Emo were the Canadian contingent of a four-team Bantam girls’ hockey tournament in International Falls last weekend. The local Pinewood Sports squad opened the tournament against Warroad, and Warroad showed why they were hailed as the favourites with a convincing 10-0 win. Warroad amassed 30 shots on […]
Never seen the look of frustration? Nor the eyes of disappointment? You could have seen both on the face of Anwar Cheblaoui after the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team fell in overtime to the Dryden Eagles here last Thursday afternoon in a game they wanted, had, and then lost. “This […]
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 […]
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 […]
