Kevin Webb was pretty special, but special teams proved to be the Borderland Thunder’s undoing here Friday night. Webb had a highlight-reel goal and added an assist, but the OCN Blizzard used a shorthanded goal and a power-play marker in the third period to fight their way past the Thunder […]
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It wasn’t a dazzling debut, but the Muskie ‘B’ football squad left their coaches with a favourable impression on opening day. While at first blush the 22-0 score in favour of the visiting Warroad Warriors yesterday wasn’t overly complimentary to the Muskies, head coach Lou Gauthier wasn’t short on praise […]
Plans for tonight’s championship final in the Fort Frances adult slopitch league have landed foul. League co-ordinator Megan Ross said this morning that the scheduled final between the league’s ‘A’ bracket champion Rural Reps and ‘B’ bracket titleists Little Rascals would not go ahead—and that there would be no overall […]
Every Borderland Thunder fan may want to put their money aside now, because investing in a program will certainly be a necessity this season. There will be a bevy of new faces in the lineup for the defending SIJHL champions, who will see their first competitive action Friday night when […]
If a segment of First Nations citizens in the area have their way, the money-losing ways of the Borderland Thunder will be a thing of the past—because the Thunder itself may also be yesterday’s news. The team accumulated losses totalling $122,127.81 as of Mar. 31. The numbers are taken from […]
The rink may not be big enough to hold this clash of the titans. The defending SIJHL champion Borderland Thunder will get a significant early-season test when the OCN Blizzard, the five-time defending Manitoba Junior Hockey League titleholders, come to the Ice for Kids Arena for an exhibition tilt Friday […]
They were the few, the proud, and the almost playoff contenders. A lightly-manned squad of just 11 men travelled from Fort Frances to compete this past weekend in the second division of the Thunder Bay Invitational soccer tournament, posting a 1-2 mark. The squad knocked off the Thunder Bay VP […]
One game, one shot, one championship. A season full of home runs, great catches, and plenty of excitement comes to a head Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Francis Sportsfield south diamond, when the Little Rascals and the Rural Reps meet in the championship final of the Fort […]
Beethoven’s Fifth was something to remember. Rainy Lake’s fifth was one they wish they could forget. Sight & Sound broke open a close affair with a six-run explosion in the fifth, aided by three Rainy Lake errors, to earn a 9-1 decision and capture the Rainy River District Fastball League […]
Day-old pastries are difficult enough for the human stomach to entertain, never mind one from 12 months ago. But it’s not so much indigestion as it is anticipation that the Fort Frances Muskies varsity football squad is feeling inside, as they prepare to chew on the toughest part of last […]
Sight and Sound has its sights set on grabbing the brass ring. The season-long leaders in the Rainy River District Fastball League need only to defeat Rainy River in tonight’s 8 p.m. match-up at Vanjura Field to secure the championship. But if Rainy River manages to pull out the victory, […]
The sun and fun of Florida was only two strokes away. Kitchen Creek Golf Club head pro Steve Wood and his team of Steve Pruys, Shawn O’Donnell, Charlie Windego, and Jason Kuorikoski were mostly steady from tee to green, but came in tied for sixth in the gross division with […]
