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 […]
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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 […]
Staff They were missing their ‘Tom’-boys, but it didn’t matter. The top-ranked Fort Frances Braves pulled out a 3-1 win over the defending champion and No. 3-rated Sight & Sound Wolves in Winner’s Bracket action in the East Divison of the Rainy River District Fastball League playoffs this past Tuesday […]
Staff With main training camp looming in just over three weeks, the Fort Frances Lakers have fortified their ranks with a three-pack of front-line contributors, two from right here at home. The SIJHL franchise announced the signings of forwards Ian Tookenay, Noah Loveday and Ian Jarvis this past week. Fort […]
A tradition 30 years in the making is set to kick off on Thursday morning as bass anglers hit Lake of the Woods for day one of the 2017 Kenora Bass International. Started back in 1988, the KBI has always taken place over the second weekend in August and over […]
Staff Good thing Al Christiansen doesn’t smoke so that he won’t miss all the cigars he didn’t receive for coming close twice. The Fort Frances resident pulled down a pair of second-place finishes at a tennis tournament this past weekend held as part of Sioux Lookout’s Blueberry Festival. In the […]
Staff Pharmasave held the shoreline for as long as it could. But the Centra Pipelines waves eventually washed over them. Jeff Hyatt scored twice as Centra lived up to its regular-season championship hype with a 4-0 shutout of fourth-place Pharmasave in the first match of the two-leg semifinals in the […]
Staff The first half was about as good as La Place Rendez-Vous/Taggs could have hoped for. It was the second they could have done without, for it almost wiped away all their previous good work. An 8-2 first-half lead nearly evaporated completely in the face of a post-halftime charge by […]
Staff By the high standards of the Sight & Sound Wolves, it wasn’t a stellar regular season. But they’re used to bringing their best when the real shooting starts. John Desaulniers pitched a complete-game victory and the No. 3-ranked Wolves made their next step towards defending their championship with a […]
