Joey Payeur Grace Petsnick went from southern Ontario to Quebec to exhaustion. But it’s a trip she believes will help her go even further down the road to success in her martial arts endeavours. The 14-year-old member of the local Borderland Judo Club recently spent two gruelling weeks developing her […]
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Joey Payeur Claire Sobkowicz missed the Game 1 goalfest, so she decided she had some catching up to do. Sobkowicz tallied twice, including the decisive goal in the second half, to give La Place Rendez-Vous/Taggs a 4-3 victory over Al’s Racquet Stringing in Game 2 of the best-of-three Borderland Soccer […]
Staff The Northern O Selects ran into more than a peck of trouble Saturday. More specifically, it was three Pecks. The Fleetwood Marlins (B.C.) cruised past the Rainy River District-based Selects 7-0 in the loser’s bracket of the ‘A-Major’ division at the North American Fastpitch Association (NAFA) World Series in […]
Staff One more Fort Frances Lakers’ player is confirmed to be coming back while another is on his way out of town. The SIJHL club today announced two moves in advance of its main training camp beginning Aug. 31 at the Ice For Kids Arena. Defenceman Mark Richter will be […]
Staff They swung for the fences but ran into some walls. The Northern O Selects and the Northern Extremes, both representing Rainy River District, came away from the North American Fastpitch Association (NAFA) World Series in Fargo, N.D. over the weekend with lots of good memories but no titles in […]
Staff The effort was there but the victories were not. Team Ontario’s female indoor volleyball team, with Fort Frances resident Amy Wilson-Hands along as an apprentice coach, finished in fourth place at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg over weekend. After going 4-1 during the preliminary round, then beating Saskatchewan […]
Staff By the end of the frame, the Elanco Blackahawks weren’t pleading the fifth–they were pleading for the fifth to end. The Northern O Selects, representing the Rainy River District, chalked up a seven-run fifth inning to lay the foundation for a 10-3 win in six innings over the Pennsylvania-based […]
Staff Two more wins will mean one gold medal. Team Ontario, with Fort Frances resident Amy Wilson-Hands on board as an apprentice coach, brushed past Saskatchewan 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-17) in the quarterfinals of the female indoor volleyball competition at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg yesterday. The squad has […]
Staff The ballpark just wasn’t big enough for the two of them, so one of them had to go. Faron Morrisseau drilled a home run to provide the biggest blast for the Couchiching Raiders, who won the all-Couchiching showdown with Windey’s Warriors in a 5-1 triumph in the Rainy River […]
Staff Fargo wasn’t too far to go for a pair of Rainy River District fastball teams looking to rule the world. The North American Fastpitch Association ‘A’ Major World Series begins today in Fargo, N.D., wrapping up on Sunday. Representing the local area will be the Northern O Selects, featuring […]
Staff It could be double title night at the Struchan Gilson Memorial Soccer Pitch this evening. The Borderland Soccer League men’s division champion will be crowned when Centra Pipelines takes on CJ Contracting at 6:30 p.m. Top-seeded Centra advanced to the title match after a 1-0 victory over fourth-ranked Pharmasave […]
Staff Four and looking for more. Team Ontario’s 19U women’s volleyball remained flawless yesterday, improving to 4-0 with a 3-0 victory (25-18, 25-20, 25-18) over Quebec at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg. With Fort Frances resident Amy Wilson-Hands on board as an apprentice coach, Ontario has yet to drop […]
