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 […]
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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 […]
Staff That is not the way they like it. It wasn’t KC and the Sunshine Band but the KC Indios of Kansas who played a troublesome tune for the Sight & Sound Wolves yesterday in an 11-1 romp in the Wolves’ opening game of the North American Fastpitch Association ‘A’ […]
Staff The dramatic elements of the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League playoffs were pushed to the background by Mother Nature. Last night’s scheduled Losers’ Side semi-final at Red Gut Bay between the second-ranked Babes and fifth-seeded Northwest Bay Beavers was rained out. The two teams had not set a […]
Staff The kings are dead–and the Couchiching Raiders hope to be the next to wear the crown. A four-homer assault by the second-ranked Raiders fuelled an 8-1 win over the third-seeded Sight & Sound Wolves in the East Division semi-final of the Rainy River District Fastball League on Tuesday evening […]
Staff In 22 days, the boys of winter will be back while it’s still summer. The Fort Frances Lakers announced their pre-season schedule Tuesday, which will feature two home-and-home series against a pair of SIJHL rivals. Action gets underway Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. when the Lakers host the Minnesota […]
Staff Rainy River First Nation wants to slam dunk alcoholism among youths–and is bringing in a renowned roundballer to help do so. The Youth for Sobriety 3-on-3 basketball tournament and skills clinic runs today through Saturday at the outdoor courts located near the RRFN gymnasium. Lending a celebrity presence to […]
Staff It looked for two innings as though the Fort Frances Her-icanes were going to need to swing a redwood tree to get any piece of Shelby Nosan’s flurry of fastballs. But a series of miscues in the third frame left the Dawson Tigers stumped as to how to defeat […]
Staff Steve Arpin went gambling in Atlantic City and drew a pair of threes. The Fort Frances native placed third both Saturday and Sunday at the Red Bull Global Rallycross doubleheader there. Racing for Loenbro Motorsports, Arpin finished Saturday’s 10-lap feature in 8:24.710 to finish just under nine seconds behind […]
Staff Nobody was going to outrace Raice on this night. Fort Frances resident Raice Westover claimed his second feature win of the season during Borderland Racing Association action Saturday at the Emo Speedway. Westover zipped across the finish line ahead of Jesse Thompson (Emo) and Dean Kellar (Devlin). Street Stocks […]
