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Staff The Red Gut Babes have come back from the dead countless times over the past five seasons. But the grave they dug themselves Monday evening was too deep even for them to escape. The sixth-ranked Dawson Tigers, meanwhile, confirmed they were no one-hit wonder–beating the second-seeded Babes on their […]

Joey Payeur Chelsea Kabatay hasn’t even played an official point with the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs women’s volleyball team but she already is predicting good things ahead. The former Muskie spiker is ready to take on the challenge of post-secondary athletics as she and the rest of the Voyageurs […]

Staff Kyle Turgeon and Dave Byrnes thought they had hit one out of the park. But the Day 1 leaders reached out and stole a certain victory away from the Fort Frances tandem. Scott Anderson and Tim Donaghue of Bemidji, Mn. went wire-to-wire in winning the 2017 Morson Bass International […]

Staff Life at the Rea Memorial has been very good to Jamie Davis. The Devlin native, who now lives in Fort Frances, captured the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds division of the annual two-day stock car extravaganza held in conjunction with the Emo Fair. Davis nabbed the checkered flag in Saturday’s feature […]

Joey Payeur Hustle is a valuable asset to have on a tennis court. It’s a pretty good characteristic to have when you’re trying to build one, too. The hard work and dedication of those commissioned to make the Fort Frances Multi-Use Courts a reality had an opportunity to bask in […]

Staff The NW Braves didn’t roll out the welcome mat for the Sight & Sound Wolves. Sight & Sound closed out it stay at the North American Fastpitch Association (NAFA) ‘A’ Division World Series in Fargo, N.D. with a 6-4 loss to the Oregon-based Braves on Saturday. Game stats were […]

Staff Trevor Croswell was rewarded for playing “Fair.” The Emo resident took a pass on the final Superior Dirt Riders Northern Ontario motocross event of the season in Kakabeka Falls on Saturday–despite leading the MX-3 Beginner division in points in his rookie campaign. The reason? So he could focus on […]

Staff Their 20/20 vision gave Trevor Zimak and Glenn Leroux a clear view of what being champions looks like. The Thunder Bay tandem were the only ones in the 110-team field to record 20 pounds or more on each of the two days of the Atikokan Bass Classic over the […]

Staff The Muskie football team is in full swing with its main training camp–and there’s plenty of room to join the fun. Practices are running all this week and on Monday from 4-6 p.m., then will go from 3:30-6 p.m. starting Tuesday with the beginning of the new school year. […]

Staff It was not their weekend to howl. The Sight & Sound Wolves had their stay at the North American Fastpitch Association (NAFA) ‘A’ Division World Series in Fargo, N.D. end Saturday with a 6-4 loss to Oregon’s NW Braves in a Losers’ Bracket elimination game. That left the Wolves […]

Staff An inning after an insect attack, Kayla Windego delivered a sting of her own that proved fatal to the Northwest Bay Beavers’ season. Windego tripled home the tying run with two out, then wound up scoring on the play after the Beavers’ second error of the inning gave the […]