A short bench made for a long weekend for the visiting Thunder Bay KC Bulldogs. With only 13 skaters at their disposal because of injuries, the Bulldogs (10-13-2-3) were swept by the Borderland Thunder (11-13-1- 1) by scores of 7-0 on Saturday night and 5-4 in overtime yesterday afternoon at […]
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Lorne Jackson almost waited too long. He got pushed to the cliff’s edge, but managed to dig in his heels to defeat fellow Fort Frances skip Kevin Busch 10-1 to capture the ‘C’ event at the Zone West bonspiel in Kenora yesterday. With the weekend event representing the last chance […]
To look at Jillian Gustafson, you’d think she is just a normal, happy eight-year-old girl. And in fact, she is, which raises the question—why would a normal, happy eight-year-old girl want to leave her cozy home in Fort Frances on a frosty New Year’s Day to jump through the ice […]
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 […]
When James Knopf finally got his foot in the door, everyone else wished they had changed the locks. The Winnipeg resident originally wasn’t part of the field of 16 at the annual Boxing Day men’s squash tournament at the Memorial Sports Centre last Friday. But after John Hazel couldn’t continue […]
A broken fuel line on the team bus was the only thing that could slow down the Muskie boys’ hockey squad last weekend as they went into the Christmas break with a pair of easy exhibition wins. Steven Sus and Greg Flewelling each scored twice to lead the Muskies over […]
If you were looking for big-time athletic thrills, you could have done much worse than be in Rainy River District the past 12 months. From high-profile hockey tournaments to another extremely exciting Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, and with a cornucopia of amateur sports mixed in, there was no shortage […]
Steve Boileau adopted the philosophy that if you win all your games, scoreboard watching becomes irrelevant. A round-robin event usually compels participants to keep a close eye on what’s going on around them—even if they’re not playing at a particular juncture. But Boileau eliminated all manner of doubt as to […]
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 […]
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 […]
