Forget two front teeth or an X-Box—all the Borderland Thunder wanted for Christmas was four points. And if that meant opening their present early, so be it. The Thunder (9-13-1-1) went into their holiday break making a joyful noise as they captured an important pair of victories against the K&A […]
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The local K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ hockey team continued its dazzling run this season by claiming the Morden Hawks tournament in Morden, Man. over the weekend. The Knights, who have won all three tournaments they’ve entered this season, have not lost to a Canadian PeeWee team yet. Fort […]
‘X’ marked the spot where Rob Gavel put together one of his best results of the sno-cross racing season. The youngest member of the Gavel racing family based in Stratton, the 15-year-old zoomed to a fifth-place finish in the Junior 14-15 age group at a World Snowmobile Association nationals event […]
As far as Peter Spuzak’s concerned, the Kitchen Creek Golf Club is the author of its own troubles. One of the landowners adjacent to the golf course a short drive west of town, Spuzak said claims that people like himself are not being co-operative with the club’s efforts to improve […]
With only two wins in 29 games, you would think Jared Catholique-Bruyere would rather be anywhere else than manning the blueline for the SIJHL’s worst team. So, why is this kid smiling? “It’s a real professional organization and I’m really having fun there,” Catholique-Bruyere, 16, said about his stay this […]
The Springfield IceHawks had a severe case of bus legs Sunday afternoon, but sympathy was not forthcoming from their hosts. The Fort Frances Midget ‘AA’ Canadians took advantage of their weary visitors and waltzed to a 7-1 victory to improve to 3-0 in the ‘A’ Division of the Eastman Midget […]
Ho-ho-home ice was exactly what the Borderland Thunder needed to receive some pre- Christmas joy. The fourth-place Thunder (9-13- 1-1) hit the halfway point of the SIJHL’s regular season on a muchneeded positive note, snapping a five-game losing streak with a 6-5 win here Friday night and an 8-3 victory […]
Dan Hoehne’s return to health left Thomas Dombrowski feeling under the weather. Dombrowski’s tenure in goal with the Borderland Thunder is over after just three games as head coach Dave Allison announced yesterday the netminder had been given his release. “[Hoehne], for all intents and purposes, is going to play […]
The laws of physics dictate two objects cannot occupy the same space. So consider Gillons’ and the Wildcats temporary law-breakers. Gillons’, the 10-time defending league champs, and the upstart Wildcats both are perched atop the weekly Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League standings with 18 points apiece. The Die Hards are […]
They couldn’t play for real, but the local K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ team caused some real trouble across the river. Because of the rule limiting the number of tournaments they can take part in during a season, the Knights decided to play against teams participating in a tournament […]
An eight-game schedule doesn’t leave a team much time to get their engines warm if they want to take a run at top spot. But, then, wasting time has never been big on Paul Noonan’s priority list. Noonan and co-coach Mike Busch have the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team off […]
It was a play that had never been successfully executed. So, of course, it was exactly the call coach Mike Busch wanted to make. Kevin Gemmell, who had 22 points in the game, came off a double screen to swish a threepointer at the final buzzer of regulation time, then […]
