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 […]
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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 […]
Staff Like father, like son–and the rest of the team was pretty likable, too. Steve Gushulak, with his dad, Bill, at lead, claimed the ‘A’-event title at the annual Fort Frances men’s bonspiel with a 7-6, extra-end victory over fellow Fort skip Mark Broman in Sunday’s final. The Gushulaks, along […]
Staff Izzy Smith will get to carve up some ice on a national stage. The local defenceman was selected this past week to Team Ontario for the 2017 National Aboriginal Hockey Championship. The event will take place May 1-6 in Lake Cowichan, B.C. • • • The date is now […]
Joey Payeur Ron Silver went looking for ways he could expand his coaching repertoire. He most certainly found it in the form of a Canadian curling legend and one of the country’s best female curlers, both with Northwestern Ontario roots. Silver, the Muskie boys’ coach and mixed co-coach, as well […]
Joey Payeur Jordan Sinclair dismissed the seedings before the start of the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ boys’ hockey championship as irrelevant. His belief was–sadly for the home team–proven to be rife with wisdom. The defending champion Muskies carried the No. 1 seed into the tournament last week, but were carried out on […]
