The Aquanauts are looking to use their largest grant to date to improve their development. The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) announced Tuesday that communities in the Northwest region, including the local swim club, will benefit from grants totalling $796,700. Several grants support initiatives that will improve local sports organizations and […]
Local Sports
In a tight Rainy River District Fastball League all-star game, Team One used a two-run fifth inning to nip Team Two 6-4 Thursday night at Big Grassy First Nation. Will Handorgan (Big Island) earned game MVP honours for Team One after getting two key lead-off hits in the bottom of […]
With the bass freshly deposited back in the water, Emo’s Walleye Classic is gearing up for a bigger and better second-annual tournament on May 30 and 31, 2003. Organizers decided to expand the field to 60 teams next year, up from the 50 available spots in this year’s tournament. “Everyone […]
The road to Norm Lindsay’s record third Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship win didn’t include improving on his deep water technique. Nor was it catching onto Rainy Lake’s tricky patterns. For a lifelong angler, this particular road went beyond fishing. Victory came on the heels of recovering from two cracked […]
Greg Madill was named the newest member of the Borderland Thunder coaching staff yesterday. Madill will join carryovers Sean Taggart and Neil Cooper behind the bench to assist head coach Dave Allison. The new-look staff met with Thunder officials last night. “I’m excited. It’s a great opportunity for me to […]
The big hitters came out to play this weekend with the biggest of them delivering large when it counted. Norm Lindsay and Jess Swenson (Team #39) of Sioux Narrows overcame a 2.44 pound deficit heading into Day Three Saturday, bagging 20.74 pounds to finish with a 55.72 total to win […]
If Day One was any indication, this year’s Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship title is Mark Raveling and Mike Luhman’s to lose. The Deer Park, Wis. duo (Team #6) bagged a one-day derby record 22.28 pounds Thursday to grab an almost three-pound lead heading into the final two rounds of […]
Robert Atatise needed an extra hole to claim his first Kitchen Creek Junior Open title Tuesday. After failing to make the cut at the Manitoba junior championship two weeks ago, the local golfer captured the 16-18 year-old title by sinking a 35-foot birdie putt on the par-four first hole to […]
The battle for top spot in the Borderland women’s soccer league is turning out to be a two-horse race. With just three weeks left in the regular season, Gillons’ (9-2-1) and Curves (7-3-1) have proven to be the top two teams. Curves blanked MEC 4-0 but lost 1-0 to Tagg’s […]
Gord Pyzer is anxious to put his world-renowned fishing smarts to the test at the eighth-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Champ-ionship, which gets underway tomorrow. Pyzer, the former Kenora district manager for the Ministry of Natural Resources, currently is co-host of the popular syndicated radio show “Real Fishing” and is […]
It took a mere five hours for Ryan Wood to sound like his angling mentors. When asked how and where he and teammates Frank and Terry McClymont caught their five-pound smallmouth enroute to capturing the fifth-annual Kid/Pro Tournament here Sunday, the 11-year-old played it safe. “I don’t think we could […]
The Rainy River District Fastball League’s annual all-star game will be played tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Big Grassy. Rosters for the two teams were unavailable as of press time. In league play last week, teams have been making up rain-outs by playing “double-win” games. The Bulldogs made the most […]
