Joey Payeur It’s been lurking in the shadows all season. Now it’s time to step into the glare of the spotlight. The fact Fort Frances is hosting the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ boys’ hockey championship beginning Tuesday and running through Thursday has been comparable to waiting for Christmas morning to arrive for […]
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Staff Jared Virtanen and Dylan Kooner were the only Lakers to get consideration for the SIJHL’s year-end awards. Virtanen, who still leads the league in assists with 52 and is fourth in points with 74, is up for the Mallon’s Corporate Impressions/Play It Again Sports Most Valuable Player award against […]
Joey Payeur Anika Alexander took her opponents to court but came away guilty of overconfidence in her own mind. The Fort Frances native captured the bronze medal in the women’s Open division with a 3-2 record at the 2017 Harrow Canadian University and College Championships held March 3-5 in Waterloo. […]
Staff The Thunder Bay North Stars figured the best way to fix their Fort Frances Lakers’ problem was come out with both barrels blazing. But they found out by the third period that quality was more important than quantity. After just scoring once in 20 shots in the first period, […]
Staff If the Muskie girls’ hockey team wanted to settle some scores, it is going to get the chance. The pools and game schedule were announced Friday for the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ girls’ hockey championship being held March 22-24 in Stratford. Fort High is seeded 11th in the 16-team field and […]
Conrad DueckSubmitted by In a game between the top two offensive teams in the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League, with each having one of the top two offensive players, this time it was Sam Soderman and his RRFN team that came out on top in a 78-61 victory over Sunset […]
Joey Payeur The ice surface of the Kenora Recreation Centre has been the hottest spot in Northwestern Ontario for Muskie victory dance parties this week. One night after Fort High claimed the NorWOSSA girls’ hockey crown there against the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints, the Muskie boys repeated the feat with […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Aquanauts had much more company than usual over the weekend. A recent Swim Canada rule change limiting the window for athletes to qualify for national championship events meant more than 500 swimmers congregated in Winnipeg for the Prairie Winter Invitational. “Because Swim Canada now says […]
Joey Payeur Amy Wilson-Hands refuses to believe her team had any reason to take a backseat to anyone it faced this past week when it comes to talent. Rather, it was the psychology of the big stage that led to her squad’s demise. The co-coach of the 16th-ranked Muskie senior […]
Staff The freshman phenom is ready to take on all comers in the U.S. college diving ranks. Fort Frances native Molly Carlson placed fifth in the 3m event for the Florida State Seminoles at the Zone ‘B’ Qualifier on Monday at Auburn, Ala. That result was good enough to earn […]
Staff The Borderland Judo Club respectfully opened its doors to out-of-towners, then proceeded to wipe the competition mats with them for much of the day. Local fighters took gold in nine of 17 divisions at the club’s second-annual shiai held Feb. 25 at the Couchiching multi-use facility. Several of them […]
Joey Payeur Even a first-year head coach knows top-flight special teams’ work can win hockey games. Jordan Sinclair now is extra glad he kept that in mind preparing for the NorWOSSA boys’ hockey final. The Muskies scored three times with the man-advantage in the first period, and also killed 10-of-12 […]
