The Borderland Thunder go into Dryden tomorrow night facing elimination, down 3-1 in their best-of-seven semi-final series after losing both games to the Ice Dogs here ice over the weekend. The Thunder had split the first two games in Dryden earlier this month. “It was a great game, best game […]
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The Scott Gobeil rink finished round-robin play at the 2004 Canadian Police Curling Championship in Hamilton with a 5-5 record, but that wasn’t good enough to qualify for the playoffs. Gobeil, representing Manitoba, wrapped up play with a 9-4 win over Nova Scotia yesterday afternoon, leaving them tied for fifth […]
The Scott Gobeil rink finished round-robin play at the 2004 Canadian Police Curling Championship in Hamilton with a 5-5 record, but that wasn’t good enough to qualify for the playoffs. Gobeil, representing Manitoba, wrapped up play with a 9-4 win over Nova Scotia yesterday afternoon, leaving them tied for fifth […]
The Scott Gobeil rink, representing Manitoba, lost 9-8 in an extra end to Newfoundland this morning to fall to 4-5 at the Canadian Police Curling Championships in Hamilton. Gobeil wrapped up round-robin play this afternoon against Nova Scotia (the outcome was not known by press time) because Manitoba has the […]
It was sensory overload on Sand Bay last weekend as 64 racers descended on Fort Frances for the fifth-annual Canadian Kitty Cat Championship. Gas was flowing, the engines were roaring, and six snowmobiles at a time blurred past spectators in an event that gets larger every year. “It was the […]
It’s now a best-of-five series. The Borderland Thunder split the first two games of their semi-final showdown in Dryden last weekend and now will be looking to gain a stranglehold over the Ice Dogs with a pair of wins here this Friday and Saturday night. The puck drops at 7:30 […]
The Thunder Bay Queens, featuring local player Sarah Barton, earned a silver medal in women’s hockey at the Ontario Winter Games in London last weekend. The Queens, who played two exhibition games here last month, represented Northwestern Ontario at the Games. “Sarah did good,” said her dad, Clint, who went […]
The Scott Gobeil rink was 3-3 heading into play today at the 2004 Canadian Police Curling Championship in Hamilton. The rink, representing Manitoba, was scheduled to play British Columbia this morning and then New Brunswick this afternoon. The bonspiel started Sunday and will wrap up Saturday. Gobeil, a local OPP […]
The Muskie cheerleaders won’t be participating in the provincial championship next month in Mississauga after all. Since placing first in the large (20+ members) all-girl event at the regional showdown in Thunder Bay late last month, the black-and-gold have lost three team members, making it to difficult to redesign their […]
Local players Megan Canfield, 18, and Steven Boileau, 14, helped Northwestern Ontario finish seventh in the squash competition at the Ontario Winter Games in London last weekend. The team had been ranked sixth out of eight heading into the Games, where scores were based on all eight-team members (i.e., one […]
There still was some Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association action at the Emo Arena this past week. In the PeeWee division, the Thunderbolts did not fare well, losing three of four games. The Emo Cobras got three first-period tallies and one more in the second en route to a 4-1 win […]
A dozen members of the Fort Frances K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ squad have joined three players from Kenora and another two from Red Lake to compete in the regional playoffs this weekend in Schreiber. The team, which also includes Knights coach Don McCool on its coaching staff, will […]
