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 […]
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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 […]
Staff It’s time to get “rocking” in preparation for a major high school athletic competition coming here next year. The 2018 OFSAA boys’ and girls’ curling championships are coming to the Fort Frances Curling Club during the week of March 19. With no time to waste in getting ready for […]
Staff White Lightning discovered the “Wright” stuff when it needed to most. Evan Wright scored his fourth goal of the game 15 seconds into overtime to give White Lightning an 11-10 victory over Banana Splits in Game 2 of their best-of-three UNFC Champions Cup age seven-nine division lacrosse series Monday […]
Staff Offence was hard to come by for CJ Contracting in its first two games, but that seemed hard to believe Monday night. Five different goal scorers bulged the twine to help CJ (1-2) to a 5-3 win over Pharmasave in Borderland Soccer League men’s division action. Caleb Koomans, Kevin […]
Staff Tanner Smith has a chance to be at the top of his class someday. But the road between now and then is filled with hard lessons for the inexperienced. The young Northwest Bay Chieftains’ pitcher got one of those lessons Sunday from the visiting Barwick Blue Knights, who cruised […]
Staff The more they play together, the better they get–and they almost were good enough to beat the defending league champs. Just one bad inning prevented the Fort Frances Angels from pulling off an upset over the Fort Frances Her-icanes, who hung on for an 11-7 win in Rainy River […]
Joey Payeur Their elder siblings had left some big shoes to fill but the shoes ended up fitting just fine. A family tradition theme saturated the annual Muskie athletic awards banquet last Thursday at the local Legion. Tory Beaudry matched the accomplishment of older sister, Hailey, in 2014 by co-winning […]
Joey Payeur The two best parts for Brandon Croswell about having his dad sharing the motocross track with him this year as a competitor for the first time? “When he wipes out and when I pass him [in practice],” chuckled the 12-year-old about family patriarch Trevor Croswell. “I’m not racing […]
