The Muskie varsity ‘A’ football team lost 44-0 to the host Sisler Spartans on Friday to fall to 1-4 in the ‘AA’ conference of the Winnipeg High School Football League. Fort High has scored just 38 points over their five games so far while allowing 145. They next will play […]
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The Borderland Thunder came home with a 1-1-1 record from the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s “showcase” tournament over the Thanksgiving weekend. The Thunder, still undefeated (4-0-1) in SIJHL play, scored four unanswered goals to earn a 5-3 win over the Waywayseecappo Wolverines in their tourney opener Friday. On Saturday, the […]
The final berths for the 2005 Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship will be selected by lottery tonight at La Place Rendez-Vous starting at 6:30. Doug Cain, the outgoing director of angler services for the FFCBC, said this morning that 46 names will be drawn from 142 hopefuls to complete the […]
Football can be described as orchestrated chaos. With every down, each player is given an assignment, with a starting point and a destination. And when they work together, a football team can be as precise as an orchestra performing a Mozart classic. But when they aren’t, they can be as […]
If you were given one chance to live out your childhood dream, would you take it or let it pass you by? When that situation arose for Sean Douglas, it didn’t take long for the former Fort Frances resident to contemplate the question, and in the end, he chose to […]
How does it sound when you’re told that you are still undefeated after five games? “It sounds so good to hear that,” Andrew Dault said after the Borderland Thunder beat the Dryden Ice Dogs 6-3 last night at the Ice for Kids Arena, which extended the team’s unbeaten streak to […]
Just an exhibition game? Don’t tell that to the Manitoba Moose and Hamilton Bulldogs, who will be squaring off in a so-called “exhibition game” here Friday night. The Moose and Bulldogs, who play in the North Division of the American Hockey League, still are in the process of finalizing their […]
The Borderland Thunder will try to extend their unbeaten streak to four games tonight when they face the Dryden Ice Dogs at the Ice for Kids Arena. The puck drops at 7:30 p.m. The Thunder (3-0-1) are coming off a sweep of the K&A Golden Hawks (Thunder Bay) here Friday […]
The Muskie varsity ‘A’ football team lost 29-3 to the St. Paul’s Crusaders in Winnipeg on Friday. The loss leaves the black-and-gold with a 1-3 record in the ‘AA’ conference of the Winnipeg High School Football League, scoring 38 points over those four games while allowing 101. The Muskies’ next […]
The Borderland Thunder are still undefeated four games into the SIJHL season after posting 4-2 victories over the K&A Golden Hawks here Friday and Saturday. The Golden Hawks led 1-0 after the first period Friday night even though the Thunder outshot the visitors 12-6. But David Gooch squared things up […]
A miscommunication in game times caused the Kenora Broncos to arrive late here yesterday, forcing the senior girls’ basketball game to be cancelled because the Muskies had to leave for a tournament in Thunder Bay. But the other three games went head (albeit three hours after their scheduled start time), […]
The Borderland Thunder will play their home-opener tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Ice for Kids Arena against the K&A Golden Hawks. The two-game series wraps up Saturday at 5 p.m. The Thunder were able to stave off a late charge by the Golden Hawks there last Sunday, gaining a […]
