Staff Florida State Seminoles’ diver Molly Carlson booked a ticket to her third-straight NCAA championships after placing sixth on platform with a score of 510.85 at the Zone B qualifier last week. The junior, who was born in Fort Frances, will dive a full event list at the NCAAs for […]
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Staff The Fort Frances Lakers honoured the cream of this year’s crop at the team’s annual awards banquet held Saturday afternoon at La Place Rendez-Vous. To no one’s surprise, goalie Jacob Gnidziejko took home the trophy as most valuable player. The 21-year-old has been steady between the pipes for the […]
Staff A pair of local Sunset Country Squash Club players participated in the recent Winnipeg Pro-Am Annual Manitoba Open. Both junior Ryley Booth and Mike Canfield entered the ‘D’ division and who knew they would meet in the semi-finals? Canfield had a bye in the first round before defeating Denis […]
Press Release The SIJHL announced Friday the finalists for each of its individual awards for the 2018-19 regular season. Voting for these honours was completed by each of the league’s six-member clubs. Out of these finalists, the winner of each individual honour will be announced over the course of the […]
Sam Odrowski The Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club now will be able to better maintain and groom its trails at Rocky Inlet since receiving a sizeable grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. A group of club members held a breakfast at the trails Thursday morning to celebrate the announcement. The […]
Staff The Sunset Country Métis is offering the Canadian Firearms Safety Course and the Ontario Hunter Education Program free of charge to its citizens, with a special focus on youths aged 12 and up. Instructor Peter Van Drunen will teach the Canadian Firearm Safety Course on March 28-30 at the […]
Jamie Mountain It was a tough outing for the Confederation College Thunderhawks’ men’s curling rink at the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association national curling championships that were held Friday through yesterday in Fredericton, N.B. The rink, which includes former Muskies Kurtwood McGuire (skip) and Jason Bazylewski (second), went 0-7 to finish […]
Staff A group of Treaty #3 First Nations’ girls came together to form a PeeWee Warriors hockey team that recently competed at the Little Native Hockey League held March 11-14 in Mississauga. Nine of the girls were from Treaty #3 territory (Couchiching, Nigigoonsiminikaaning, Big Grassy, Dalles, Rainy River First Nations, […]
Jamie Mountain It’s probably starting to feel a little like déjà vu for the Fort Frances Lakers when it comes to the SIJHL playoffs. Each year, the squad’s road seemingly leads them to the Dryden GM Ice Dogs–and that’s the case once again as the Lakers will square off against […]
Staff The Fort Frances PeeWee ‘AA’ Canadians went 5-1 en route to claiming the HNO Branch championship title for a third-straight year. Held March 8-10, the Canadians opened tourney play on the Friday morning with a narrow 2-1 shootout loss to the KC Sabres. After a scoreless first period, Dakota […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers will be heading into the SIJHL playoffs with a little more confidence after splitting their final regular-season games over the weekend at the Ice For Kids Arena. In what was a preview of their first-round playoff match-up, the fifth-place Lakers eked out a tough 6-5 […]
Staff Keighan Gerrie, Jacob Brown, and Kyle Auger combined for nine points to pace the league-leading Thunder Bay North Stars to a 9-1 romp over the visiting Fort Frances Lakers on Tuesday night. Thunder Bay (47-4-1-1) roared out to a 3-0 lead in the first period on goals by Maxime […]
