Local golfer wins $10,000 cheque for sinking hole-in-one
Imagine winning $10,000 just by getting a hole-in-one. This was the experience Matt Maurice had over the weekend, getting a hole-in-one on the first hole at the shoot-out tournament over the weekend at the Hay River Golf Course. Over 80 people were registered in the tournament this past weekend, looking for a chance to win, [...]
Ptarmigan Ptrappers come out on ptop
A team from Hay River helped one Northern community make history outside of town boundaries. The Ptarmigan Ptrappers slo-pitch team, with help of the Hay River Slo-pitch Association, was able to attend the inaugural slo-pitch tournament in Fort Resolution. This was the first tournament in the community in more than 20 years and according to [...]
A taste of the tropics at the golf course last weekend
It may not have been tropical temperatures this past Saturday, not going by Hay River standards. But a roasting pig, colourful props and a wildly printed shirt or two may have given Saturday at the Hay River Golf Club a bit of a different flavour. This year’s August Best Ball fundraising tournament has been taken [...]
First time jitters not lost on experience for NWT ladies at Softball Nationals
It was a first for softball in Canada, and the privilege was given to the ladies. Or it should be said that it was earned. After winning big at the Territorial Slo-pitch Championships in Yelllowknife last year, the Hay River Brew Jays ladies slo-pitch team earned the chance to attend the Canadian National Championships in [...]
Bullets beat out Brewsers in Friday night game
It was the return to the regular season for the Hay River slo-pitch league after the massive Coors tournament on the August long weekend. By the time last Friday’s game reached the bottom of the sixth, the score was 8-4 for the Junior Bullets against the Brewsers. “You’ve gotta stay together,” yelled one very involved [...]
Wacky weather thrown at teams for Coors weekend
The weird weather this weekend didn’t prevent the territory’s avid slo-pitch players from competing in this year’s Coors tournament. After two team dropped out, 11 teams from across the North competed with strong winds, hot sun and thunder as their backdrop. A fast-approaching thunderstorm soaked teams on Sunday afternoon, and repeated showers on Monday hit [...]
Women take to the fairways for this year’s 60s themed Norland Open
Let’s do the time warp again. That was the song sung by the ladies at the Hay River Golf Course this past weekend. The Norland sixth annual Lynette Storoz Memorial Ladies Golf tournament went off without a hitch from July 23-24, with the highlight event being a 60s inspired dinner where all participants dug in [...]
Equal opportunity ball: first NWT Ladies team at Softball Championship, 2011
In the movie A League of Their Own, women were given the chance to discover their talents, strengths, and sportsmanship in a way they never could before. Although the depiction of this more local story is almost half a century in the future, it’s still one that has a bunch of female softball players just [...]
DeBeers Charity Classic had golfers shooting for diamonds
They would say it’s strictly a fundraising tournament, but somewhere in there, organizers are pushing the idea that it was a fun-raising tournament. Silly puns aside, one of the many enjoyable golf tournaments that will be taking place was held at the Hay River Golf Course, but this was a tournament with other things in [...]
Racing, rushing, zooming: Town erupts as the World Jet Boat Races touch down in Hay River
It was one of the few times you may see a checkered flag over the water. But when the first leg of the 2011 Outlaw Eagle World Jet Boat Marathon was completed, that flag was the gavel for each teams’ final time as they rounded the bend to reach the finish line at Fisherman’s Wharf [...]
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