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: […]
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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 […]
Jamie Mountain The difficult road to get back atop the SIJHL standings already has begun for the Fort Frances Lakers. But head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan is hopeful a slew of local players will help make that trip back up the mountain an easier one. Last week, Strachan […]
Staff The tide is starting to turn for Manitou Forest Products in the Borderland Soccer League. After snapping a six-game losing streak last Wednesday with a 1-0 win over Centra Pipelines, they battled top-ranked CJ Contracting to a 1-1 tie in men’s division action Monday night. Jeremy Nussbaumer netted Manitou’s […]
Staff The Race of Champions Mid-season Shootout was the perfect time for Gavin Paull to shine once again. The Fort Frances native claimed his third feature win of the year in the WISSOTA Modifieds division, and also took the lead in the points standings, in Borderland Racing Association action Saturday […]
Staff No matter the opponent, the Fort Frances Braves only know one thing: winning. Brett Mann crushed a three-run homer in the third inning to pace the top-ranked Braves to a 13-2 drubbing of fourth-seeded Windey’s Warriors last Thursday evening at VanJura in the second round of the six-team, double-elimination […]
