Staff The online play-by-play commentator compared goalie Sydney Swanson to Fort Knox. So Katie Sinclair and the Lakehead Thunderwolves broke in and grabbed all the gold. The Fort Frances resident set up the deciding goal by Olivia Carter in the second period as the Thunderwolves made history by beating the […]
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Staff It will be the three-time defending champs against the new kids on the block. But the Fort Frances Lakers begin their quest for a fourth-straight SIJHL crown in unfamiliar fashion after wrapping up their regular season with a 3-2 loss to the Dryden GM Ice Dogs on Friday night […]
Staff Katie Sinclair saw the rest of her team having fun so she decided to join in. The Fort Frances native had a goal and two assists in the third period to help the Lakehead Thunderwolves rout the Aquinas College Saints 10-0 yesterday in their opening game at the ACHA […]
Staff There’s no room for error in a 3-on-3 overtime and Matt Tustin’s misplay made that perfectly clear to the Fort Frances Lakers. Nicholas Nigro took the turnover and went the other way to start–and then finish–a 2-on-1 with 14 seconds left in the extra session to give the visiting […]
Staff Molly Carlson is a true triple threat. The Fort Frances native will have three tries to close out her freshman season with the Florida State Seminoles in golden fashion at the NCAA diving championships that got underway yesterday in Indianapolis. Carlson qualified in all three individual events for the […]
Joey Payeur A year without a badminton tournament gave the Fort Frances Badminton Club a year to reflect, reassess, and rejuvenate its efforts to resurrect its biggest event of the season. This year, the club isn’t waiting until the last minute to attract entries to the tournament, which is slated […]
Joey Payeur Pity the foe who takes these Muskies lightly for they are intent on proving last season was an aberration. Fort High carries the No. 11 seed into the 16-team field for the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ girls’ hockey championship that begins next Wednesday (March 22) in Stratford. And that suits […]
Joey Payeur It was the most awkward of injuries and the most frightening of moments. Katie Sinclair initially thought her hockey season was over. Now that it’s not, she has every intention of making her second chance count. The Fort Frances native will be back in the Lakehead Thunderwolves’ lineup […]
Joey Payeur It’s hard for a team to win consistently if it plays soft with the game on the line. Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan wasn’t enamoured with his squad’s grit quotient–missing a chance at a two-game sweep by giving up two goals in 1:40 […]
Joey Payeur The Border Skating Club participants stepped gracefully, soared mightily, and won plenty. And those weren’t even the biggest highlights of the event for them. The 14-member contingent garnered 40 medals during the Thunder Bay Open on March 3-5, which was their last competition of the season. But the […]
Joey Payeur The kid from the Fort is now the king of Minnesota. Hudson Mann, who was born in Fort Frances but now lives in International Falls, where he fights out of the Mighty Mustang Wrestling club, avenged an earlier loss this season by beating Tate Hermes (Medford) 7-6 in […]
Staff It’s good to be king. Three different versions of the Thunder Bay Kings ruled their hockey kingdoms with iron fists over the weekend, cleaning up on their opponents to capture the Hockey Northwestern Ontario ‘AAA’ branch championships–and not even losing a game in the process. In the Bantam ‘AAA’ […]
