Staff Callum McCormick wasn’t going to stop shooting until the puck started going in. After being denied on two golden scoring chances early, McCormick came come through with two goals to spark the Emo Express White to a 5-3 victory over the Causeway Cougars in Sunday’s final of the Fort […]
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Staff Three local bowlers have advanced to the provincial Open championships coming up April 12-15 in Dryden. Jeff Watts topped the field of 36 men vying for the nine provincial berths at the two-day, 20-game zone qualifier held over the weekend in Dryden–finishing with a 5,328 total pinfall (266 average). […]
Joey Payeur Jordan Sinclair wavered somewhere between pleased and. . . . Well, he couldn’t quite pin down the other extreme he was feeling. “I don’t know if I’d really say disappointed,” the head coach of the Muskie boys’ hockey team remarked after the squad’s 3-2 win over the Sturgeon […]
Staff The weather already was milder than it usually is for the annual “Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run” on Saturday over in International Falls. Lori Green added some extra heat by burning up the course. Green clocked in at 50:14 to lead a 1-2 Fort Frances finish in the female […]
Joey Payeur Grace Petsnick’s propensity for throwing her competition for a loop is crossing all kinds of borders. The Borderland Judo Club member added to her eye-popping list of achievements by capturing the gold medal in the U16 female-57kg division of the Sask Open judo meet in Regina over the […]
Staff There’s been little to stop Molly Carlson from making waves in her freshman season with the Florida State Seminoles’ women’s diving team. Some tainted southern cuisine did the trick. The Fort Frances native was forced into a cheerleading role after being unable to compete at a dual meet against […]
Staff Jared Virtanen and Dylan Kooner are moving north in the SIJHL scoring race which, not coincidentally, is aiding their team’s cause of moving the same direction in the standings. The Fort Frances Lakers’ “Duo of Destruction” garnered nine points as the three-time defending SIJHL champs won a pair of […]
Joey Payeur Outsiders with no sense of recent history would consider the men’s provincial curling championship merely a coronation ceremony for Brad Jacobs. But don’t count Travis Showalter among that group because he and his rinkmates are proof positive that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. The Nestor Falls […]
Joey Payeur Heavy described both Tracy Fleury’s last shot and Jenna Walsh’s heart. Fleury’s try at drawing behind cover slid too far to give Thunder Bay’s Krista McCarville a 10-6 win over the Sudbury-based skip Saturday in the final of the 2017 Scotties provincial women’s championship in Nipigon. McCarville successfully […]
Staff Ending up in the third-place game would be a disappointment to most good teams. It’s how one deals with the disappointment that counts. The Muskie boys’ hockey team shook off its semi-final loss to earn a 3-2 win over the Sturgeon Heights Huskies of Winnipeg yesterday to claim the […]
Staff Rainy River District will have two representatives at the men’s provincial curling championship next month. Third Mike Badiuk (Devlin) and lead Travis Showalter (Nestor Falls) helped the Dylan Johnston rink of Thunder Bay to a 4-0 record and top spot at the West regional qualifier held over the weekend […]
Staff Jenna Walsh’s third provincial women’s curling title will have to wait at least one more year. The Devlin native played second for Sudbury’s Tracy Fleury at the Scotties provincials in Nipigon, who wound up losing 10-7 to defending champ Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay) in Saturday’s final. McCarville led 7-3 […]
