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 […]
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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 […]
Circumstances forced Shirley Jensson out of her comfort zone—and probably not a single person noticed. Personal commitments left the Fort Frances bowler with no choice but to compete in the Saturday morning shift at the zone P.O.A. (pins over average) tournament in Atikokan. But in the end, Jensson not only […]
For a two-game series just before the holiday break between the two lowest-ranked teams in the league, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. The defending SIJHL champion Borderland Thunder (7-13-1-1)—currently mired in fourth place—will look to stifle any playoff hopes of the last-place K&A Variety Golden Hawks (2-22-2) at […]
The airline company that Vicki Stinson dealt with during her trans-Pacific journey probably oversold their plane by one seat. She quite possibly could have floated on air all the way to the “Land of the Rising Sun” and back again. The local rhythmic gymnastics coach accompanied International Falls gymnast Scott […]
The Emo Novice, Tween, and Belle ringette teams hosted their annual tournament at the Emo Arena earlier this month. In the Novice final, Emo faced a much-improved Dryden squad, who jumped out to a quick 6-3 lead in the first half on goals by Gregory Olson (two), Rikki Shields (two), […]
