Joey Payeur It’s never easy to say goodbye. A five-pack of Muskie seniors likely bid farewell to their high school hockey tenures with a 6-5 loss to the All Saints Titans (Whitby) on Thursday afternoon in the quarter-finals of the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ girls’ hockey championship in Stratford. One of those […]
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Joey Payeur Former world heavyweight boxing champ “Iron” Mike Tyson once said everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. The Fort Frances Lakers took another angle and came up with an effective plan Saturday after getting nailed by haymaker thrown the previous night by the Thief […]
Joey Payeur There’s nothing like the first time for Keegan McGeen, right, and the rest of the Belle River Nobles as they won their school’s first-ever OFSAA ‘A/AA’ boys’ hockey crown with a 3-2 shootout victory over the St. Mary’s Crusaders (Hamilton) in the gold-medal game last Thursday night at […]
Staff It was a morning of pinfalls and podium pictures over in International Falls. The third-annual Top of the Nation Folkstyle Wrestling Championship was held Sunday at Falls High School, with five Fort Frances-connected participants involved. Fort-born Hudson Mann, who now lives in the Falls, beat Nicholai Cottrell in two-straight […]
Joey Payeur Zayne Basaraba of Fort Frances had the eye of the tiger as he prepared to lock horns with Mighty Mustangs’ teammate Teagan Green during action in the Kindergarten division as part of the Top of the Nation Folkstyle Wrestling Championship on Sunday at Falls High School.
Submitted Hailey Beaudry of Fort Frances was instrumental in leading her Lakehead University Thunderwolves to a huge semi-final upset over the University of Alberta Pandas’ Kristen Streifel (background) at the 2017 U-Sports/Curling Canada University Championships last Wednesday in Thunder Bay.
Joey Payeur Defenceman Mark Richter, left, sent Thief River Falls Norskies’ forward Alec Daman an obvious message he was unwelcome in goalie Jessie Heisz’s crease during the second period of the Lakers’ 6-0 loss in Game 3 of their “Survivor Series” on Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena.
Staff Lisa Penner of Fort Frances and her Northern Ontario rinkmates saw their dreams of a national championship fall short. Mary Mattatall and her Nova Scotia rink from Halifax downed Kenora-based skip Peggy Taylor, with Penner at third, second Arleen Wilcox, and lead Tracy Stasiuk, 11-3 in six ends in […]
Joey Payeur There was just one story on most people’s minds the day before the final of the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ boys’ hockey tournament here: the fact the Muskie team wasn’t going to be in it (or any medal-round games for that matter). But there was no shortage of tales to […]
Staff The “Stars” weren’t quite aligned in the favour of the Fort Frances Competitive Atom Leafs. A red-hot goalie was the difference as Stars Purple (Winnipeg) blanked the Leafs 1-0 in their divisional championship game Sunday at the 2017 Stars Cup there. Fort Frances opened the tournament with a 2-0 […]
Joey Payeur Usually, it’s the older sibling that influences the younger one. In this case, though, it was the little brother who caught his big sister’s attention. Couchiching First Nation band member Brayton Levesque, who lives in Fort Frances, attended the 46th-annual Little Native Hockey League tournament in Moose Cree […]
Staff Like father, like son–and the rest of the team was pretty likable, too. Steve Gushulak, with his dad, Bill, at lead, claimed the ‘A’-event title at the annual Fort Frances men’s bonspiel with a 7-6, extra-end victory over fellow Fort skip Mark Broman in Sunday’s final. The Gushulaks, along […]
