Staff Nearly 100 years after the Stanley Cup final was cancelled, the same fate befell those aiming for what would have been a first-ever youth lacrosse championship. The inaugural UNFC Champions Cup in the age seven-nine and 10-14 divisions won’t be awarded after all after circumstances wiped out the two […]
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Staff Piper Miller tallied the game- and title-winning goal in the third period to give the Northern Storm a 3-1 triumph over Tommy Chicago Green in the final of the U10-‘AAA’ division at the Shock Doctor Shootout in Edina, Mn. back on June 11. Fellow Fort Frances teammate Eva Gerstner […]
Staff Rainy River Community College in International Falls will host two upcoming youth volleyball camps. The Up North elementary girls’ volleyball camp will run July 5-7, taking place each day from 9 a.m.-noon. It is open to girls in Grades 1-7 and costs $60 (U.S.), which includes a camp T-shirt. […]
Staff A superb Saturday gave way to a sobering Sunday for Steve Arpin. The Fort Frances native was on top of the world–and the standings–after winning his second-straight final during the Red Bull Global Rallycross circuit’s inaugural visit to Canada. After winning the feature on the second of two days […]
Staff Tara Allaire was running on empty but held firm to her place in the top five. The Emo resident put in a fantastic effort to finish fourth in her 31-runner division, and 12th out of 176 women overall, in the marathon division of the Manitoba Marathon on Sunday in […]
Staff “Bo” knows fastball. Jeffrey (Bo) Thomas was virtually unhittable Sunday–tossing a pair of complete-game shutouts in leading the Big Grassy Lightning to first place in the fifth-annual Sabaskong Lakers/Cubs Men’s Fastball Challenge Tournament. Thomas, a resident of Peguis First Nation in Manitoba and a friend of Lightning member Chris […]
Staff Jamie Davis hinted he might take this past Saturday off from the racetrack. Everyone in the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds division would have preferred he had taken his own hint. Instead, the Devlin native captured the feature race for the third-straight week in Borderland Racing Association action at the Emo […]
Staff Centra Pipelines finally gave up a goal. No worries–they made upfor it and then some. Max Williams netted his league-leading third goal as Centra beat Pharmasave 4-1 in Borderland Soccer League men’s division action last night. Jeff Hyatt, Zach Koomans, and Tyler Hamm had the other markers for first-place […]
Staff The Manitou T-Birdies could have been forgiven for thinking they spent the first inning in Florida rather than on their home field because they had to face one Her-icane after another. A mammoth 15-run opening frame was all the defending champion Fort Frances Heri-canes needed en route to a […]
