Staff Lisa Penner has at least one more game to play. That’s the only certainty after this morning’s draw at the 2017 Canadian senior women’s curling championship in Fredericton, N.B. The Fort Frances resident plays third for the Northern Ontario rink skipped by Peggy Taylor of Kenora, which rebounded from […]
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Staff Five ties and seemingly 500 changes in momentum. But in the end, it took just one shot to bring a painful end to another successful Muskie girls’ hockey season. The eighth-ranked All Saints Titans (Whitby) topped the 11th-seeded Muskies 6-5 yesterday afternoon in the quarter-finals at the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ […]
Staff The second season is calling and the defending champions can’t wait. How I Set Your Mother finished the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League’s regular season with a flourish last night, grabbing the maximum six points to finish in first place overall with 109 points. No Diggity, which spent most […]
Joey Payeur The one-night hometown favourites departed with a long-awaited trophy in tow but left behind some indelible memories with local hockey fans. Cody McFarlane had the only goal of a shootout to carry the fourth-ranked Belle River Nobles to a thrilling 3-2 win over the third-seeded St. Mary’s Crusaders […]
Conrad DueckSubmitted by Revco started down a man but still managed to take a lead at one point in the opening game of Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action Tuesday night. But a combination of missed free throws, bad passes, poor shot selection, and a stolen ball in the final […]
Staff The March Break was so good, apparently many of the players in the Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League would rather have had the regular season end than the break. It was an evening of inaction on what was supposed to be the final night of the regular season last […]
Staff A returning point-producing machine joined a red-hot goalie, an unsung forward trio, and an overtime hero in moving the Fort Frances Lakers to the cusp of the next round of the SIJHL playoffs. The Lakers made themselves right at home in the Ralph Engelstad Arena the past two nights–earning […]
Joey Payeur It wasn’t the preferred path into the quarter-finals but the Muskie girls’ hockey team will take it. The 11th-seeded Muskies lost 6-0 to the top-ranked and two-time defending champion St. Michael Warriors this morning in their final Pool ‘A’ game at the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ championship in Stratford. But […]
Staff Lisa Penner and her Northern Ontario rink need to take their rock-throwing skills to the next level immediately. Skip Peggy Taylor’s Kenora-based team, featuring Penner at third, were in a three-way tie for second place in the championship pool entering play today at the 2017 Everest senior women’s curling […]
Staff After winning a mother of a tie-breaker, Hailey Beaudry of Fort Frances and Erin Tomalty from Nestor Falls almost became children of destiny. The two former Muskie curlers, playing skip and lead, respectively, for the Lakehead University Thunderwolves, wound up with the silver medal following a 7-4 loss to […]
Staff It may be all over but the crying for the Muskie boys’ hockey team. Power-play goals by Matthew Mines in the second period and Saul Van Der Zalm in the third lifted the seventh-ranked Holy Cross Raiders (St. Catharines) to a 2-0 victory this morning over top-seeded and defending […]
Nicholas Donaldson The Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club held its annual general meeting Monday night at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre, which drew about 30 members and guests. Henry Miller gave the Zone ‘A’ report and also updated everyone on the elk herd reintroduction project in Northwestern Ontario. The […]
