Joey Payeur The Memorial Sports Centre staff that maintains the Ice For Kids Arena might have some extra work to do today to repair the well-worn path to the penalty box. Some two dozen minors (12 to each team) were handed out in Game 1 of the NorWOSSA boys’ hockey […]
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Staff Read all about it! As part of the Rainy River Future Development Corp.’s Customer Service Celebration this month, stories of exemplary customer service now can be viewed online at www.rrfdc.on.ca/customer-service-celebration All “Customer Service Champions” also will be recognized in a large ad in this week’s Fort Frances Times. A […]
Joey Payeur The top line for the Muskie girls’ hockey team was a threat all night–both to the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints and their own chances. In the end, everything worked out for the best for the black-and-gold, who earned a 4-2 win Friday night at the Ice For Kids […]
Staff Two matches down, but their spirits are still up. The 16th-ranked Muskies put up a good fight early but couldn’t sustain the pressure and lost 2-0 (25-21/25-10) to the sixth-seeded St. Mary’s Crusaders (Hamilton) in their opening match at the OFSAA ‘AA’ girls’ volleyball championship this morning in Belleville. […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers took it on their collective chins twice over the weekend–virtually ensuring the squad will open the SIJHL playoffs on the road as the fifth seed. First, the last-place Minnesota Iron Rangers (7-44-2) snapped a 22-game losing streak by doubling the Lakers 4-2 down in Hoyt […]
Joey Payeur A funny thing happened on the way to the inevitable NorWOSSA girls’ hockey final. It didn’t turn out to be so inevitable after all. The Muskie girls’ hockey team will go for its fourth-straight league crown beginning tonight at 7:15 at the Ice For Kids Arena. But for […]
Staff They’re not “Ahead by a Century” but they’re the first team to hit the century mark this season. How I Set Your Mother earned the maximum six points last night for the second-straight week in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action. That gave the league leaders and defending champs […]
Staff It’s a good thing Katie Beninger continues to score at a torrid pace because her responsibilities on Kicker Instinct just multiplied exponentially. Beninger notched her second-straight hat trick to help carry the first-place squad to a 5-2 win over Goal Diggers in Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League action last […]
Conrad DueckSubmitted by The opening game of the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League on Tuesday night featured a hard-fought battle that saw all 10 guys give their best effort playing a full 40 minutes. In the end, John Sivonen’s 22 points led Revco (9-8) to a 54-48 victory over Arctic […]
Joey Payeur Amy Wilson-Hands always has wanted to expedite her team’s development process by playing the best competition available. She and her troops literally are going to get that chance. The reigning NorWOSSA and NWOSSAA champion Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team has been seeded 16th in the 20-team field at […]
Staff Forrest Gump once said sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks. Such was the story for the Muskie boys’ curling rink, which ran out of rocks–and time–against the Hammarskjold Vikings (Thunder Bay) on Tuesday in Longlac in a bid to win its second-straight NWOSSAA crown. Fort High, the defending OFSAA […]
Staff It probably was much closer than it should have been. The Fort Frances Lakers were taken to the limit by the woeful Minnesota Iron Rangers but still managed to leave Hoyt Lakes with a 5-4 victory last night. Minnesota (6-43-2) put up a furious fight but still suffered its […]
