Jamie Mountain For any local sports league to run smoothly, a set of rules must be enforced and adhered to by its players. Such is the story for the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League, which runs every Tuesday night in the Fort High gym. League co-ordinator Conrad Dueck has been […]
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Jamie Mountain It was a tough day Saturday for a pair of Fort Frances rinks at the U21 provincial playdowns held at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Tory Beaudry’s rink, consisting of Katrina Slomke (third), Ashley Payne (second), and Andrea Schram (lead), finished double round-robin play with a 3-3 record […]
Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Lakers (6-19-1-1) are hoping better days lie ahead. Given the squad ended the first half of the SIJHL regular season mired in a 10-game losing streak, any type of good fortune early on in 2018 would be a welcome gift. Head coach and general manager […]
Jamie Mountain Former Muskie Hailey Beaudry and Tanner Horgan of Sudbury came out on top at the U21 provincial curling playdowns that wrapped up Saturday afternoon at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Hailey Beaudry first had to win a tie-breaker that morning against her younger sister, Tory, after both rinks […]
Jamie Mountain It was an up-and-down day for local curlers yesterday at the U21 provincial playdowns being held at the Fort Frances Curling Club. The day didn’t start out so well for Chris Silver’s rink but the ending was a sight to behold. After having the bye in the first […]
Jamie Mountain A six-point performance by captain Annalise (‘CC’) Hayes sparked the Muskie girls’ hockey team to a 6-3 win over the Minot Majettes (North Dakota) yesterday afternoon in their final game at the Hockeytown Holiday Classic in Warroad, Mn. Hayes scored her first of three goals just 3:57 into […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie boys’ hockey team opened the annual Ralph Engelstad Classic in Thief River Falls, Mn. yesterday with a hard-fought 2-2 tie against the Fargo North Spartans. Fargo North opened the scoring with 6:43 to go in the first period. Cole Allan gave the Muskies some life when […]
Staff Both Beaudry rinks got off to good starts last night at the U21 provincial curling playdowns at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Tori Beaudry, representing Fort Frances, opened play by rallying for a 6-5, extra-end victory over the Kira Brunton rink (Sudbury). Beaudry’s team includes Katrina Slomke (third), Ashley […]
Bob TkachukSubmitted by The past two years, the Sunset Country Squash Club’s Boxing Day ‘A’ champion has been Steve Boileau, with wins over Anniss Seid in 2015 and then Jason Kabel last year. But the tables were turned this time around with Seid ousting Boileau 3-1 in the best-of-five final […]
Staff Local curling fans are in for a treat over the next few days. The Fort Frances Curling Club is hosting the U21 men’s and women’s provincial playdowns tonight through Saturday–and club president Ron Silver is expecting some top-notch play. The Tanner Horgan rink (Sudbury), which won silver at the […]
Press Release Ontario is protecting consumers from losing reward points based only on the amount of time passed since they were earned. Beginning Jan. 1, consumers will be protected against losing reward points they have been saving up for larger purchases, and the change will be retroactive to Oct. 1, […]
Press Release The FFGWHA Novice Ice Devils and Novice Heat, along with the host Emo Express, all went 2-1 in the round-robin portion of a recent tournament there. A tie-breaker put the Ice Devils in the gold-medal final against Emo while the Heat dropped down to the bronze-final versus Kenora. […]
