Staff Sarah Glover wasn’t going to stop running until someone told her to. It turned out nobody did. Glover scored the game-winning run on the most unexpected of throwing errors to cap a six-run comeback and give the Fort Frances Mud Dogs a 13-12 win over the Sabaskong Tebinaak in […]
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Staff Game on. The post-season began in earnest last night in the Rainy River District Fastball League with three games each in both the East and West Divisions. With the Fort Frances Braves getting the top seed and a bye in the East after finishing with a league-best 18-1 record, […]
Staff Brody Strachan was feeling a little claustrophobic so he put some breathing room between himself and Jeff Davis. Strachan nabbed his second WISSOTA Modifieds feature win of the season Saturday night as the Emo driver extended his lead over Davis in the standings in Borderland Racing Association action at […]
Joey Payeur With their energy and spirit, the youngest members of the Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club will be firing on all cylinders before too long. Club member Sydney Chalifoux has taken the initiative–and the reins–in creating the group’s first program geared exclusively towards youths this season. “I got the […]
Staff The Northern Storm raged through its opposition before being silenced by a pack of Terriers. Fort Frances residents Piper Miller, Kiera Fairnington, and Eva Gerstner helped the Storm regional team reach the final in the 10U Tier 1 division of the USA International Hockey Cup ‘AAA’ Tournament in Blaine, […]
Joey Payeur At the end of it all, Marie-Mai Langevin was too good for her own good. The 12-year-old Fort Frances resident returned from the 80th running of the FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby world championships in Akron, Ohio on July 16-22 with a pair of trophies in the Super […]
Staff Two more new faces will be looking to win over local hockey hearts this coming season, but at least they’ll be familiar to each other. The Fort Frances Lakers announced last Wednesday the signing of forward Mitch Kocsis, a 20-year-old out of Martensville, Sask., who played the past two […]
Staff Everybody’s so excited for the Borderland Soccer League playoffs, they decided to skip the rest of the regular season. First-place Centra Pipelines and third-place Manitou Forest Products played what turned out to be the men’s division regular-season finale Monday, with Manitou earning a 3-0 decision. Connor Nelson, Colton Spicer, […]
Staff It’s been a rookie season to remember for Trevor Croswell. The Emo resident placed third in the MX3 Beginner division behind the Ignace duo of Jonathon Szyszka and Cody Colby at the second-last tour stop of the year for the Northern Ontario Superior Dirt Riders motocross circuit Saturday in […]
From the MNRF The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is seeking the public’s help in identifying the individual(s) responsible for abandoning an ice hut on Lake of the Woods near Kenora. Back in the spring, conservation officers received complaints of an ice hut floating in open water on the […]
Joey Payeur The impact of the sporting triumph of a group of fresh-faced Fort Frances curlers shook the foundations of youth curling in a whole other province. Back in 1958, the curling quartet of skip Peter McLeod, third Leonard McQuarrie, second Art Berglund, and lead Bob Gratton turned amateur athletics […]
Staff The memory of the Fort Frances Her-icanes was just long enough to remember they didn’t want to repeat their early stumble in last year’s post-season. Marissa Kerry earned the win in her playoff debut as the defending champion ‘Canes beat the eighth-ranked Emo Renegades 12-5 last night at VanJura […]
