A difficult season has made for lower expectations for the Borderland Thunder. Coming off of last year’s SIJHL championship, the Thunder were hoping to repeat as regular-season champs in their quest for a second-straight title. But at 12-13-1-2 through their first 28 games, Borderland finds itself more than 20 points […]
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In the spirit of the tournament sponsor, T.J. Pocock concluded a wonderful weekend by feeding a great big doughnut to the Volunteer Pool Bearcats (Thunder Bay). Pocock took every thing the Bearcats could throw at him—and more—as he backstopped the Fort Frances K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ team to […]
There was no shortage of local teams at the Robin’s Donuts Minor Hockey Classic in Thunder Bay last weekend as nine tested themselves against Northwestern Ontario’s best at the 108-team extravaganza. While the Fort Frances K of C PeeWee Knights were the only team to bring home gold, some others […]
Sandi Elliott could have been promoted to head of the “service” department after turning the Kenora Broncos’ hope of an upset on its ear. Elliott erased a 20-14 deficit in the fourth set with nine-straight points from behind the service line, including a pair of aces, to clinch a 25-22 […]
Sandi Elliott could have been promoted to head of the “service” department after turning the Kenora Broncos’ hope of an upset on its ear. Elliott erased a 20-14 deficit in the fourth set with nine-straight points from behind the service line, including a pair of aces, to clinch a 25-22 […]
On Feb. 19, 2002, Kristin Roehrig never would have guessed that she had just seen her team record its last NorWOSSA point for some time to come. On Friday night, the captain of the Muskie girls’ hockey team finally got her chance to speak about something other than a regular-season […]
The Muskie junior boys’ basketball squad turned their season around so quickly, they may have suffered whiplash. After losing their first two games of the NorWOSSA campaign by a combined 46 points, the black-and-gold (1-2) battled to an impressive 55-46 victory over the visiting Kenora Broncos last Thursday at “The […]
For coming so close to getting a shot at the title, Muskie boys’ hockey head coach Shane Bliss wasn’t exactly doing handsprings. “We could have played better,” a disappointed Bliss said after the black-and-gold finished with a 3-2 loss to the Oak Park Raiders in Sunday’s bronze-medal game of the […]
Without his normal rinkmates around him, Lorne Jackson’s goal last weekend was to hone his own game for the bigger challenge to come. Bringing home a championship was just an added bonus. Jackson teamed up with his wife, Kathie Jackson, at third, along with the husband-and-wife team of second Rory […]
A ladies’ volleyball tournament is in the planning stages for Feb. 14-15, with action to be held at Fort Frances High School. The entry fee is $200 per team, and the registration deadline is Jan. 22. For more information or to register, contact Candy Greengrass at 483-1252 or via e-mail […]
Brett Perreault scored twice to help the Fort Frances Midget ‘AA’ Canadians earn a 6-2 victory over the first-place Portage Terriers in Eastman Midget League action Sunday afternoon at the ’52 Canadians Arena. After the Canadians survived the bruising, penalty-riddled contest to improve their second-half regular-season record to 5-0, Canadians […]
There was ample opportunity for the Fort Frances Taggs Bantam ‘AA’ hockey team to clean up at the Steel City International Tournament in Sault Ste. Marie. But a series of close-but-no-cigar situations left Taggs on the outside looking in when it came to advancing to the tournament playoffs—by a mere […]
