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 […]
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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 […]
Staff Ryan Gazich drilled the game-winner at 2:54 of overtime to give the Fort Frances Lakers a long-awaited 3-2 triumph over the visiting Thunder Bay North Stars on Friday night. Combined with Saturday night’s 6-5 win over host English River, the Lakers (16-14-2-3) have vaulted past the Miners (15-16-1-3) into […]
Press Release Solid defence by Revco (5-6), coupled with some poor shooting by Arctic Cat, resulted in a 53-32 win for the Renegades in Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action Tuesday night at Fort High. John Sivonen paced Revco with 13 points while Adrian Chapman added 10. Kobi Ward led […]
Staff They are the top two teams for a reason—and they made that reason clear last night. How I Set Your Mother and Kiss My Pass each garnered the maximum six points in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action to further widen the gap between themselves and the rest […]
Staff Coming off one of her roughest performances of the season, Kamryn Sandelovich put forth one of her best. The Grade 9 rookie goalie made 38 saves and was the big reason the Muskie girls’ hockey team was able to salvage a 1-1 tie with the host Bemidji Lumberjacks in […]
Staff When a team gets more first-place finishes than it has team members, it’s safe to say it had a successful outing. So it went for the nine-person contingent from the Border Skating Club, which glided to 16 gold medals and 26 top-three finishes at the “Icebox Days” figure skating […]
Staff They’re halfway home and halfway to St. Catharines all at once. The Sudbury-based rink skipped by Tracy Fleury, which includes second Jenna Walsh (née Enge) from Devlin, is riding high with a 3-0 record so far at the 2017 Scotties Northern Ontario provincial women’s curling championship in Nipigon. On […]
Staff It wasn’t often last season that Maggie Jean was held off the scoresheet. After being blanked last week, she wasn’t about to make it a habit. The reigning Golden Boot Award winner netted her first two goals of the new season to help Kicker Instinct take over first place […]
