Jamie Mountain The Dawson Tigers knew early on that Travis Tom was on his game. Tom was a wizard on the rubber and with the bat–tossing a no-hitter and clubbing a pair of homers–to help pace his squad to an 11-0 rout of the Dawson Tigers in the deciding game […]
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Staff Mother Nature decided to put the finishing touches on the Borderland Racing Association season a little earlier than most racers would have liked. A thunderstorm late Saturday afternoon forced the cancellation of the annual “Fan Appreciation Night” races in what would have been the final chance for racers to […]
Staff Gabe Mastromatteo was busy adding another gold medal to his extensive collection last week. The 16-year-old Kenora native struck gold in the men’s 100m breaststroke on Day 2 of the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championship in Fiji in a tightly contested race on Friday. Mastromatteo touched the wall […]
Staff The good times kept on rolling for Jeff “Gussy” Gustafson and Scott Dingwall over the weekend. Gustafson of Keewatin and Dingwall of Kenora claimed their fifth International Falls Bass Championship title on Saturday afternoon under a packed tent at Smokey Bear Park. “We only had two fish at noon,” […]
Jamie Mountain Get your rackets out and head on down to the Multi-Use Tennis Courts here this weekend (Sept. 1-2). The Fort Frances Multi-Use Tennis Courts committee will be hosting a tennis tournament on Saturday and Sunday for anyone interested. Men’s doubles will run on Saturday with singles going the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers will have a new face in the fold when they open their annual training camp next Thursday (Aug. 30). Head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan announced Tuesday that the club had acquired defenceman Presten Bobyk from the Cochrane Crunch (NOJHL) in exchange for forward […]
Staff It was Travis Tom who shone the brightest under the lights at Couchiching on Tuesday evening. The Fort Frances Braves’ pitcher was a double-threat, tossing a no-hitter and clubbing a pair of homers to help pace his squad to an 11-0 drubbing of the Dawson Tigers in the deciding […]
Jamie Mountain Scott Andersen and Tim Donaghue had such a good time at their first Morson Bass International last year that they thought they would repeat that success this past weekend. The Bemidji, Mn. natives captured the MBI title for the second-straight year Sunday with a two-day haul of 36.03 […]
Jamie Mountain Al’s Racquet Stringing proved last week that it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. After ending the regular season behind front-running La Place Rendez-Vous in the standings, it was second-place Al’s who had the last laugh in the Borderland Soccer League’s women’s division championship final last […]
Staff At this rate, the tournament soon will have to be named after them. The Thunder Bay duo of Glenn Leroux and Trevor Zimak successfully defended their title from last year in claiming the annual Atikokan Bass Classic held Friday and Saturday. It was the fifth such title for Leroux […]
Jamie Mountain That gust of wind you feel is from the Fort Frances Her-icanes cruising to another championship. Marissa Kerry pitched a complete-game five-hitter to pace the fourth-seeded Her-icanes to a 12-4 romp over the second-seeded Red Gut Babes to claim their third-straight Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League title. […]
Jamie Mountain For any aspiring hockey player, the opportunity to represent your country in a national tournament definitely is at the top of the list of dream experiences. That dream became a reality for Raygan Kirk when she suited up for Team Canada’s national U18 team in a best-of-three series […]
