It’s not how you start a season but how you finish it. After stumbling through the regular season with a 1-7 mark, the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team almost pulled off the upset of the day in the NorWOSSA final against favoured Dryden here last Friday. The black-and-gold took the […]
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It’s a rematch they’ve waited for all season. With the memory of a 70-38 pasting at the hands of the Hammarskjold Vikings earlier this season, the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team would love nothing better than to turn the tables on their Thunder Bay rivals in the best-of-three NWOSSAA showdown […]
The Muskies expect Dryden to use a physical style of game when the two teams open the best-of-three NorWOSSA final here Friday night. But it remains to be seen whether the Eagles will have any more success than the Kenora Broncos did against the black-and-gold in the semi-finals over the […]
Playing together at the high school level for the last time, the Rainy River Owl rink–skipped by Angela Lee–would have liked to have finished on a winning note. But their season screeched to a halt yesterday afternoon at the NWOSSAA playdowns in Marathon with a 7-6 loss to Nipigon-Red Rock, […]
The local B•Macs ‘AA’ Bantam hockey team lost 8-2 to Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Minneapolis) in the semi-finals of a tournament in Brandon on Sunday. Shattuck, a private school coached by former NHL’er J.P. Parise, jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Clayton Windigo and Jordan Wilson got the B•Macs back in […]
The senior girls’ bowling team, representing Plaza Lanes at the 4-Steps to Stardom zone competition in Dryden last weekend, won the gold medal and now will represent Sunset Country at the provincials March 18-19 in Thunder Bay. They finished with a 2,804 pin total–just 34 ahead of Timber Lanes (Dryden). […]
Hillary Morgan received the top mark at the women’s provincial level in the qualifier last weekend at the Confederation College “Bubble” with an overall score of 53.1 for the total of her optional and compulsory routines. She received the 2000 gold medal award competing against seven other prov. 2 athletes […]
The Aquanauts had an excellent meet at the regionals in Thunder Bay last weekend, breaking three club records and finishing with several medals en route to a third-place finish overall. “It was probably our best finish at a meet in a long time,” head coach Debbie Murray said, admitting she […]
Westfort NAPA skated away with an impressive 5-1 win over Kenora Red Esso to capture the Emo Legion ‘A’ event at an Atom tournament last weekend in Emo. Leading 2-1 after two, Westfort iced the victory with three unanswered goals in the third. Joseph Zewiec and Jeremy Puhalski each scored […]
Despite the unusually mild weather that’s melted all the snow and weakened the ice on area lakes, the first-annual Canadian Kitty Cat championships are still slated to run here Saturday. The event–which is part of the KC Pro East Racing Club circuit–will go on Sand Bay in front of Rusty […]
Although the sixth-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is still more than four months away, the committee already is looking for volunteers–the veritable backbone of the event. “We’re kicking into high gear now,” said Ray Engelbertink, director of media relations. “You hear about 400 volunteers helping out last year. Well, […]
Council passed the town’s 2000 budget with no levy increases but it did include a $299,925 net reduction in municipal spending. Amendments to the “controllable” portion of the budget were in the form of cuts and fee increases. These were needed to compensate for higher “non-controllable” costs, which account for […]
