Mark Buist pulled double duty last weekend. The Fort Frances Midget ‘AA’ Canadians goalie was a last-minute call-up by the Borderland Thunder on Friday, and saw his first SIJHL action that night as he relieved starter Joe Bergman in the third period. Then after sitting on the bench behind Bergman […]
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It’s not a gusher yet, but the Borderland Thunder are searching for ways to stop the bleeding. The defending SIJHL champs are in the unfamiliar position of looking up at almost the entire league—sitting in fourth place after last weekend’s sweep on the road by the Thunder Bay KC Bulldogs […]
The Fort Frances Aquanauts Swim Team wasn’t trying to start something. They were just trying to start—period. Aquanauts coach Roman Ramirez was counting on somewhat better results than his 31-member team delivered at the Kenora Swimming Sharks fall invitational last weekend. But he was not bothered so much by the […]
Kenora’s cream of the squash crop proved that less sometimes is more. The visiting contingent was outmanned seven players to five by the host team, but overcame the odds to win 24 games to 18 at the annual Fort Frances/Kenora Squash Challenge here Saturday. Kenora’s Mark Norton was especially dominant, […]
The top of the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League is in a holding pattern. Gillons’ continues to lead the pack after last Thursday night’s action, putting a little more distance between themselves and their pursuers as their 11 points finds them two ahead of the second-place Wildcats. The Die Hards […]
The annual Gord Savoy volleyball tournament—for boys’ and girls’ teams in Grades 7 and 8—was held Nov. 1 in Atikokan. Teams came from Dryden, Rainy River, Stratton, Fort Frances, Devlin, Mine Centre, Whitefish Bay, and host Atikokan. The Grade 8 girls’ team from Our Lady of the Way School (Stratton) […]
A local high-ranking snowmobiling official believes the future of the sport in the province is in doubt—not because of a lack of snow, but rather an overabundance of legal entanglements. District 17 operations director Vic Alberts said a rash of lawsuits levelled at snowmobile associations across Ontario in recent years—by […]
Nobody promised that life was fair, and Sarah Noonan’s learning that lesson in spades. The sophomore midfielder/forward for the University of Minnesota-Duluth women’s soccer team just went through a glorious season that saw the Bulldogs go 8-0 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) regular season—and 14-3-3 overall counting non-conference […]
The Muskie senior girls’ basketball squad is going to the all-Ontarios. Any attempt to tell Carley McCormick otherwise will be instantly dismissed as worthless propaganda. “We can do it,” an optimistic McCormick stressed not long after the Muskies completed a tour de force NorWOSSA campaign with a 36-24 win over […]
The ending could have used a little work, but the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball season ended up being a real page-turner after all. Coach Greg Ste. Croix guided his charges to another exciting victory in the NorWOSSA semi-final in Kenora last Friday, rallying from a 2-1 deficit to win the […]
That’s more like it. The Muskies took the first step towards exorcising the demons of a sub-par post-season last year by whipping the Kenora Broncos 6-2 in their NorWOSSA season-opener last night at the Ice for Kids Arena. Muskie newcomers Jordan Bale (power play) and Brock Benjamin sandwiched goals around […]
Whatever Justin Larson is eating these days, Shane Bliss may want to add it to the team menu. Bliss coached the Muskie boys’ hockey team to the consolation title at a pre-season tournament in Dryden last weekend, but it was Larson—a second-year forward—who wielded the big stick with eight goals […]
