Submitted byCaroline Spencer The 16U Fort Frances Vipers girls’ volleyball team travelled to Winnipeg on the weekend to compete in the Jr. Bisons’ tournament at the University of Manitoba. The first team they faced was the hosts, who came out swinging hard but the Vipers held their own. After giving […]
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Staff Four goals against the SIJHL’s best goalie this season should have been a sign it was the Fort Frances Lakers’ night. But the Dryden GM Ice Dogs weren’t paying attention to the sign language. Lakers’ nemesis Derek McPhail had two goals, and Kristopher Hamlin added three points, as the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Canadians will leave Thunder Bay today feeling like they were struck by lightning. With one game left, the Canadians were at the bottom of the standings with an 0-5 record at the 2017 Ontario Hockey Federation and Central Region Bantam ‘AAA’ Hockey Championship. They already have […]
Staff Four Fort Frances bowlers weren’t content with being below average. Mildred Bedard, Rita Bagacki, Evelyn Barker, and Gary Vittie captured the Club 55 Cup Sunset Country zone title at Plaza Lanes on Monday by being the only one of the four teams to end up on the plus side […]
Joey Payeur Kristen Streifel has three Canadian junior women’s curling championships to her credit, including the most recent one. But two former Muskies didn’t get the memo–or at least acted like they couldn’t care less. Skip Hailey Beaudry of Fort Frances and lead Erin Tomalty from Nestor Falls, along with […]
Joey Payeur It’s never easy to say goodbye. A five-pack of Muskie seniors likely bid farewell to their high school hockey tenures with a 6-5 loss to the All Saints Titans (Whitby) on Thursday afternoon in the quarter-finals of the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ girls’ hockey championship in Stratford. One of those […]
Joey Payeur Former world heavyweight boxing champ “Iron” Mike Tyson once said everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. The Fort Frances Lakers took another angle and came up with an effective plan Saturday after getting nailed by haymaker thrown the previous night by the Thief […]
Staff It was a morning of pinfalls and podium pictures over in International Falls. The third-annual Top of the Nation Folkstyle Wrestling Championship was held Sunday at Falls High School, with five Fort Frances-connected participants involved. Fort-born Hudson Mann, who now lives in the Falls, beat Nicholai Cottrell in two-straight […]
Staff Lisa Penner of Fort Frances and her Northern Ontario rinkmates saw their dreams of a national championship fall short. Mary Mattatall and her Nova Scotia rink from Halifax downed Kenora-based skip Peggy Taylor, with Penner at third, second Arleen Wilcox, and lead Tracy Stasiuk, 11-3 in six ends in […]
Joey Payeur There was just one story on most people’s minds the day before the final of the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ boys’ hockey tournament here: the fact the Muskie team wasn’t going to be in it (or any medal-round games for that matter). But there was no shortage of tales to […]
Staff The “Stars” weren’t quite aligned in the favour of the Fort Frances Competitive Atom Leafs. A red-hot goalie was the difference as Stars Purple (Winnipeg) blanked the Leafs 1-0 in their divisional championship game Sunday at the 2017 Stars Cup there. Fort Frances opened the tournament with a 2-0 […]
Joey Payeur Usually, it’s the older sibling that influences the younger one. In this case, though, it was the little brother who caught his big sister’s attention. Couchiching First Nation band member Brayton Levesque, who lives in Fort Frances, attended the 46th-annual Little Native Hockey League tournament in Moose Cree […]
