Like the old saying goes: the higher you are, the harder you fall. That statement certainly can resonate with the Muskie boys’ hockey team after last night’s 4-1 exhibition loss to the Baudette Bears here. After a lacklustre showing early in the season, including an 0-2 start to the NorWOSSA […]
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As Kim Pacarenuk was being interviewed at the Ice for Kids Arena here last week, it was fitting that the P.A. system started playing an orchestral piece from the epic movie, “Gladiator.” It was the synapse-firing music heard when Maximus Meridius (played by Russell Crowe) left the Coliseum after beating […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team will square off against the Baudette Bears tonight in exhibition action tonight at the Ice for Kids Arena. Game time is slated for 7:30 p.m. The black-and-gold have begun to find their way of late after going losing their first four games of the season, […]
It took the Borderland Thunder 11 tries to beat the Fort William North Stars last season. This year, it took them just four after a 7-3 victory here Friday night. But the North Stars avenged the loss with a 6-2 win on Saturday to remain atop the SIJHL standings with […]
The top two teams in the SIJHL will go head-to-head tonight and tomorrow as the Borderland Thunder host the Fort William First Nation North Stars at the Ice for Kids Arena. The Thunder—in second place with a 15-3-1 record—will be looking at avenge 9-1 and 9-0 losses to the front-running […]
Several swimmers with the Fort Frances Aquanauts and one from the Cyclone Swim Club are competing in the annual Prairie Winter International swim meet in Winnipeg. Aquanauts Heather Dutton, 18, Rachel Dutton, 14, Nichole Lowey, 13, and Tahsha Schabler, 14, are scheduled to compete in the 800m free event, which […]
As the Ice Dogs left the ice following the warm-ups Tuesday night, a Thunder fan shouted, “You’re in our house now, Dryden!” And the Thunder defended their house with a gruelling but convincing 4-2 win to give them a 16-3-1 record on the season—good enough for second place in the […]
It had been an exhaustingly long two weeks. Two weeks had passed since the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team last played and it seemed like an eternity. All the waiting, all the anxiety—they couldn’t wait to unleash it all. And when the best-of-three NWOSSAA final finally arrived here Friday afternoon, […]
FORT FRANCES—Though it may not show in the scores, the Borderland Thunder dominated play in a pair of narrow victories over the K&A Variety Golden Hawks in Thunder Bay over the weekend. The wins gave the second-place Thunder a 15-3-1 record, just two points behind the first-place Fort William First […]
Head coach Shane Bliss repeatedly has referred to the Muskie boys’ hockey team as being a growing snowball ever since their 3-0 exhibition win over International Falls here last Tuesday night. Well, that snowball grew last Thursday with a dominating 7-0 shutout over the host Kenora Broncos for their first […]
The host Dryden Eagles scored a pair of late goals to earn a narrow 4-2 win over the Muskie girls’ hockey team in NorWOSSA action last night. Katie McTavish and Sarah O’Sullivan tallied in the losing cause. What had started out so promising ended in another heartache (the black-and-gold lost […]
Though it may not show in the scores, the Borderland Thunder dominated play in a pair of narrow victories over the K&A Variety Golden Hawks in Thunder Bay over the weekend. The wins gave the second-place Thunder a 15-3-1 record, just two points behind the first-place Fort William First Nation […]
