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 […]
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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’ […]
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 […]
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, […]
