For two sets, Greg Ste. Croix was experiencing a depressing case of déja vu. Then his troops gave him something new to look at. The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team erased a 2-0 deficit to take a 3-2 decision over the host Kenora Broncos in NorWOSSA action last Thursday for […]
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It was 16 minutes of some of the best basketball the Muskie junior girls’ squad had played all season. Now, about that first 16 . . . “Everything they shot was going in and everything we shot didn’t,” summarized first-year guard Mackenzie Caul after the Muskies’ 54-29 loss to the […]
Take 309 public school students from across the district, turn them loose in the fields and bush around Devlin, and what do you get? Sometimes some remarkable achievements. That certainly was the case when the Rainy River District Athletic Association held its annual cross-country championships at Crossroads School last Thursday. […]
Some 160 anxious anglers will be hoping Lady Luck is on their side tonight when the random draw for the final 40 berths in the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship next July is held at La Place Rendez-Vous. That’s a record number of entrants in the draw—smashing the previous […]
Camille Villeneuve never met a curling rink he didn’t like. The 75-year-old Chicoutimi, Que. resident will bring his road show to the Fort Frances Curling Club this Saturday (Oct. 11) at 2 p.m. for an exhibition match against local curlers as he brushes his way towards a spot in the […]
It was a moment that would have made any mother teary-eyed. Joan Allison was more than glad to accept on behalf of her son, Mike, when the Fort Frances native and 11-year NHL veteran formally was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in Thunder Bay on Sept. […]
It was a celebratory evening for many local anglers who were awarded spots in the 2004 Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship during last night’s random draw at La Place Rendez-Vous Hotel. Pam Buttner of Fort Frances was the luckiest of all the record 160 draw entrants as she was selected […]
Local curlers will have to wait another two days to don their sliders as ice preparation delays at the Fort Frances Curling Club forced the postponement of this tonight’s originally-scheduled season opener. Club president Bill Gushulak said complications over the weekend in getting the ice ready led to the postponement. […]
The Muskie ‘A’ football team found out you can go home again, but that doesn’t necessarily mean old troubles won’t be following close behind. A lacklustre start put the blackand- gold in yet another first-half hole that they couldn’t climb out of as the Churchill Bulldogs—sitting at 4-1 in the […]
If you’ve got the curling bug but didn’t think there was still time to sign up with the Fort Frances Curling Club this season, club president Bill Gushulak has good news to share. “We could certainly use more teams for women’s, men’s, and mixed play,” Gushulak said after the club’s […]
Two heads may be better than one, but the four legs of Aracelli Vasquez and Heather Dutton of Fort Frances were better than the rest last weekend at the 21st-annual Walker North Country Marathon/Team Relay/10-km event in Walker, Mn. Vasquez and Dutton paired up to win the team relay in […]
With 10 days between games, the Borderland Thunder had plenty of time to rest up their trigger fingers. Now, they’ll spend the next 10 days adjusting their rifle scopes. The defending SIJHL champion Thunder (1-2) fired 55 shots at Dryden Ice Dogs goalie Liam Johnston in their first game since […]
