They’re at the edge of a deep hole. Not inside the hole, just at the edge. The Borderland Thunder enter Game 3 of the best-of-seven SIJHL final tonight at the Dryden Recrea-tion Centre down 2-0—seemingly left for dead against a confident and streaking Ice Dogs team. But the team knows […]
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The Northwest Stars are taking their bumps in the early going of the Ontario PeeWee ‘AAA’ championships in Thunder Bay. The Stars—a team of 19 area PeeWee standouts, including seven players from the local KC ‘AA’ rep team—were blanked twice yesterday in opening play of the seven-team event. They lost […]
The Borderland Thunder matched their home loss total on the season in two days. And it couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Thunder dropped the first two games of the best-of-seven SIJHL final—4-3 and 3-0—to the Dryden Ice Dogs at the Ice for Kids Arena over Easter weekend. […]
The Borderland Thunder are getting set to rekindle their season-long rivalry with the Dryden Ice Dogs for all the marbles—the inaugural SIJHL crown. The best-of-seven series opens here Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Game 2, originally scheduled for Sunday afternoon, now will be played at 7:30 p.m. instead Games 3 and […]
Nettie Monasterski prefers the balanced attack. The 46-year-old skip scored often and consistently to blank Lois Tabak 9-0 in just the six ends here Sunday afternoon to capture her first ‘A’ crown at the annual ladies’ bonspiel. “Actually, there were no big scores in the game,” said Monasterski, whose rink […]
The sudden departure of coaches Alex Rosalina and Adriana Ota has the Fort Frances Gymnastics Academy scrambling—yet hopeful—to finish the season on a strong note. The pair stepped down March 9, citing general unhappiness with the direction of the club. In their place, part-time coaches Vicki Stinson, Wendy Kellar, and […]
The Fort Frances Badminton Club’s annual tournament saw a lot of matches between local junior players and those from Winnipeg given the 56 registrations were split evenly between the two. Simone Desjardins fared the best among local club members, winning the combined under-19/under-16 girls’ singles title by beating Caroline Flett […]
The local Bantam house league held its annual wind-up Monday night and announced the following award winners for the three teams: •Canadian Tire (coaches Rick Pruys and Ralph Lahti)—Ryan York (Most Improved), Steven Pruys (Most Dedicated), and Kevin Tysz (Most Sportsmanlike); •Holmlund Financial Maple Leafs (coaches John Pierce, Myrna Romaniuk, […]
Good times ran wild at the “Battle of the Badges” charity hockey game here last Friday night. Almost 800 people filled the Ice for Kids Arena to watch guest referee Eddie Shack and celebrity player Marcel Dionne skate with local law enforcement players in an exhibition game. When the dust […]
Three local Atom house league teams made a splash at their last tournament of the season at the Elks Classic in Thunder Bay last weekend. The Firemen Flames captured the tourney title while the Causeway Cougars and Green’s Predators came home with third- and fourth-place, respectively. “It was a great […]
Unsure whether it was their last tournament of the season, the local Sunset Country Ford Atom ‘AA’ Mustangs had fun at the Elks 82s Classic in Thunder Bay last weekend. They didn’t reach a ‘A’ or ‘B’ final—but it didn’t matter. “On Saturday, we had more fun as a team […]
Minutes after guiding the Borderland Thunder to their biggest win in the team’s young history, head coach Wayne Strachan finally had a chance to loosen his tie. His team picked the perfect time to deliver their best game of the semi-final series in shutting down the persistent Thunder Bay KC […]
