The 51st-annual ladies’ bonspiel last weekend at the Fort Frances Curling Club was a tremendous success, club manager Rick Grenda said. Twenty-eight rinks participated in this year’s ’spiel, which involved lots of good curling and some good fun revolving around a Mexican theme. Diane Pattison skipped her Fort Frances rink […]
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The Muskie boys’ hockey team closed out the NorWOSSA regular season here yesterday afternoon with a 6-0 whitewash over the Kenora Broncos. Now the black-and-gold will be gunning to do the same thing in the playoffs. These same two teams will meet here again Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the […]
Both the boys’ and girls’ Muskie curling rinks are off to the NWOSSAA playdowns March 1-2 in Thunder Bay after their gold-medal performance in Kenora on Sunday and Monday. The girls’ rink, including Amy Nielsen, Jenna Enge, Kate Bondett, and Courtney Beadle, dominated the field, outscoring their opponents 57-5 en […]
The four Muskie court teams will be on the bus at 7 a.m. on Friday to start what they hope will be a “golden” day at the NorWOSSA playoffs in Dryden. Both the senior boys’ basketball team and junior girls’ volleyball squad earned byes to their respective finals, so those […]
District schools will have their work cut out for them if they hope to stop the St. Francis Sentinels at the regional basketball championship next weekend if last Saturday’s tune-up tourney was any indication. Fresh off winning a tournament in Atikokan earlier this month, the Sentinels showed they had no […]
A 15-year-old Stratton youth will be one of 12 biathletes representing Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario at the National Cadet Biathlon Competition on Feb. 29-March 4 at CFB Valcartier, Que. Austin Zin, a member of the #144 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps (Fort Frances), was selected as a member of the […]
Both the boys’ and girls’ Muskie curling rinks are off to the NWOSSAA playdowns March 1-2 in Thunder Bay after their goldmedal performance in Kenora on Sunday and Monday. The girls’ rink, including Amy Nielsen, Jenna Enge, Kate Bondett, and Courtney Beadle, dominated the field, outscoring their opponents 57-5 en […]
Two Muskie teams have earned byes to their respective NorWOSSA finals this Friday in Dryden. Even though the junior girls’ volleyball squad lost their regular-season finale here yesterday to the Dryden Eagles, the black-and-gold got the bye because they had won more sets during the eight-game season. A cheer went […]
Two Aquanauts are returning home from the Western Canadian Junior Nationals in Vancouver with very different results. Alex Parent and Heather Dutton each competed in several events there, but Parent captured second place in the 400m freestyle with a time of 4:57.46—and never placed lower than fifth in any of […]
Two exhibition women’s hockey games took place over the weekend at the Ice for Kids Arena here. First, the Thunder Bay Queens, a rep team out of Thunder Bay which plays mostly tournaments, played a team compiled from all the local girls’ teams on Saturday night. The Northwest Stars, as […]
The Borderland Thunder continued their winning ways over the weekend, sweeping the K&A Golden Hawks in Thunder Bay. Winning 5-2 on Friday and then 4-1 on Saturday saw the Thunder extend their current unbeaten streak to eight games heading into tomorrow night’s game here against the Dryden Ice Dogs. Andrew […]
The Borderland Thunder took hold early and never let go, dumping the Dryden Ice Dogs 7-2 up there last night. Justin Green (David Gooch) opened the scoring with his fifth of the season at 4:21 of the first before Rob Scales (Gooch/Josh McAndrew) made it 2-0 with his sixth less […]
