Staff It wasn’t the type of showing he had hoped for over the weekend. Fort Frances native Steve Arpin finished shy of advancing to the finals during the third round of the Americas Rallycross (ARX) at the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres held Saturday and Sunday. Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross’ (VARX) Scott […]
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Staff It looked like it could be over early but wound up turning into one of the most thrilling games so far in the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League’s playoffs. The 10th-seeded Sabaskong Tebinaak used a trio of multi-run innings to outlast the fifth-seeded Fort Frances Mud Dogs 24-19 […]
Staff With their perfect season on the line, the Sight & Sound Wolves decided to throw a wrench into the Fort Frances Braves’ plans. John Desaulniers homered twice, and pitched a complete game, to help the second-seeded Wolves hand the top-ranked Braves their first loss of the Rainy River District […]
Staff Talk about catching fire at the right time. The fifth-seeded Fort Frances Mud Dogs used a seven-run fourth inning to roll to a 12-7 win over the sixth-seeded Big Grassy Lynx in a Loser’s Side playoff matchup in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action Monday night at the […]
Press Release Four athletes and two builders, including one from Fort Frances, make up the 2018 slate of inductees that will enter the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame at the 37th-annual induction dinner and ceremonies on Sept. 29 at the Valhalla Inn in Thunder Bay. The 2018 inductees include: […]
Jamie Mountain A change to the schedule in the women’s division of the Borderland Soccer League will see Al’s Racquet Stringing and La Place Rendez-Vous facing each other twice more this week. The two squads were originally slated to begin their best-of-three playoff series to determine the winner of the […]
Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Lakers’ roster for the 2018-19 season continues to take shape. Head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan last week announced that four players had re-signed with the team while another had committed to go to school. Among those returning to Fort Frances next season is […]
Staff The Fort Frances Braves are looking like a well-oiled machine with championship aspirations on its mind. Travis Tom homered twice to pace the top-ranked Braves to a 11-3 romp over the second-seeded Sight & Sound Wolves in Rainy River District Fastball League third-round East Division playoff action at VanJura. […]
Staff It was time for a pair of new faces to shine at the Emo Speedway on Saturday night. Tyler Brown and Aaron Blacklance both nabbed their first checkered flags of the Borderland Racing Association season in the WISSOTA Modifieds and Midwest Modifieds divisions. Brown, from Rainy River, earned his […]
From the MNRF A Missouri man has been fined $5,500 for hunting offences under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. Gregory Evans of Crane pleaded guilty and was fined $2,500 for abandoning a black bear and allowing its flesh to spoil, $2,000 for hunting black bear without a licence, and […]
Staff After rolling to a league-best 14-1 record in the regular season, the Northwest Bay Beavers kept that momentum going in its first Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League playoff action of the year. Darcy Smith pitched brilliantly to pace the Beavers to a 22-2 rout of the ninth-ranked Manitou […]
Jamie Mountain If you would have told Bryan Gustafson and Brian McNanney at the beginning of last week that they would be the champions at the 24th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, they would have said you were dreaming. But sometimes dreams do come true–as the duo found out late […]
