Staff They were makeup games but No Diggity’s effort wasn’t just cosmetic. With the Fort High gym unavailable due to exams, St. Michael’s School last night hosted to a quartet of postponed games from Dec. 8 in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League. Third-place No Diggity reigned supreme in its […]
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Staff Ryan Faragher’s roller-coaster season just went off the rails. The Fort Frances native was put on waivers yesterday by the Anaheim Ducks–possibly ending his affiliation with the only NHL team with which he has been associated. In 21 games this season with the Utah Grizzlies, the Ducks’ ECHL affiliate, […]
Staff Two weeks ago, the Fort Frances Lakers had lost three in a row and were wondering how to get out of fifth place in the SIJHL standings. Now they’ve won four-straight and look to be in fifth gear while having a more than realistic shot at second place. The […]
Submitted byJeremy Mann “Mighty Mustangs” wrestling is back at it for a new season in International Falls. Our youth wrestling has been around for about eight years. After a few years of losing kids, due to the Boise/Cascade paper mill cutting 300 jobs, our program is back on track. We […]
Staff Parting the Red Sea worked so well once for the Armstrong Crushers, they decided to play Moses twice. Parker Sisco and Landen Hanson scored almost carbon-copy goals 1:40 apart late in the third period to carry the Crushers past the red-clad Fine Foods Fury 5-4 in the final of […]
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 […]
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 […]
