The 51st-annual ladies’ bonspiel, featuring primarily local rinks as well as a few from places such as Thunder Bay, will take to the sheets here this weekend. The theme for this year’s event, for those getting sick of the wintery weather, is “If you can’t go to Mexico, it will […]
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Two local swimmers are on their way to Vancouver for the Western Junior Nationals. Alex Parent, 14, and Heather Dutton, 17, along with Aquanaut head coach Roman Ramirez, left today. Parent will be swimming in six events there while Dutton is racing in five. Ramirez believes Parent has a good […]
The popularity of girls’ hockey has been rising across Canada in the past few years and the Fort Frances area is no exception. In six years, the annual girls’ hockey tournament here has grown steadily, according to organizers. This year, 23 teams took part in the first half of the […]
The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team took third place in a seven-team tournament at Churchill High School in Winnipeg last weekend. “We were supposed to have played a tournament in Thunder Bay at the end of the month but it was cancelled,” noted Muskie head coach Paul Noonan. “[Fort High […]
The local Senior boys’ bowling team has qualified for the provincials in Timmins on March 13-14 after capturing gold at the zone round of the “4 Steps to Stardom” tournament last weekend in Dryden. The team, coached by Rick Stamarski, features Jonathon Wood, Sheldon Legaree, Andrew Stamarski, Jeff Watts, and […]
Two big periods changed the Borderland Thunder’s fate versus the KC Bulldogs over the weekend in Thunder Bay. Leading 4-1 on Friday night, Thunder goalie Dan Hoehne surrendered three goals in the third as the Bulldogs salvaged a 4-4 tie. Kyle Schroder, Justin Green (Kevin Webb), Aaron Boyer (Steve McLeod/Kurt […]
The Fort Frances Pinewood Blades Bantams and Emo Esso PeeWees prevailed as the girls took over the Memorial Sports Centre here over the weekend for the first half of the local association’s sixthannual tournament. PeeWee, Bantam, and Midget girls’ teams from around the region—23 in total—participated in the tourney as […]
The Fort Frances Atom ‘AA’ Mustangs hosted their annual tournament last weekend, which also included the local Taggs Atom affiliate as well as squads from Dryden, Kenora, Sioux Lookout, and International Falls. The Mustangs opened play against the Falls on Friday afternoon with a 4-3 win. Cody Vangel (from Jeff […]
The Borderland Thunder made it two in a row over the Dryden Ice Dogs, this time winning a 4-1 decision up there last night. The Thunder had nipped the Ice Dogs 1-0 in overtime here last Tuesday. After a scoreless first period, Borderland jumped on the scoreboard with a pair […]
The Diehards sit alone in first place atop the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League standings after weekly action last Thursday night. The squad sports 26 points to hold a slim two-point margin over second-place Gillons’ (the longtime defending league champs) and the Wildcats. Scared Hitless sits in fourth place with […]
The conditions were perfect. It was sunny, calm, and not too cold—a perfect day to get out on a snowmobile and travel the network of trails carefully cut and groomed by the Sunset Country Snowmobile Club while raising some money to keep those trails in shape. And for the first […]
In recent tournaments, Muskie goals have been hard to come by at times. But that certainly wasn’t the case last weekend in NorWOSSA action as the black-and-gold romped to 14-0 and 17-0 wins over the visiting Sioux Lookout Warriors. On Friday night at the Memorial Sports Centre, veteran defenceman Jake […]
