Joey Payeur In Jenna Walsh’s own words, it was a collection of both moments of brilliance and frustration. So went the tale of the week for the Devlin native, who plays second for the Sudbury-based team skipped by Tracy Fleury, which recovered from an 0-2 start to reach the quarter-finals […]
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Joey Payeur It was back-to-back litmus tests for the Fort Frances Lakers over the weekend. The first one netted them an ‘F’ and a fast-paced post-game jaunt around the ’52 Canadians Arena. The second yielded better effort but no better final result. There remains a notable gap between the fifth-place […]
Staff Chris Silver and his rink has reached so many provincials, it must feel like old hat by now. Now they want a new feeling: that of standing on top of the mountain. The Fort Frances skip and his team of third Daniel Vandenbrand, second Jason Bazylewski, lead Davis Jackson, […]
Staff If this keeps up much longer in 2017, the Fort Frances Lakers will be among the few who actually miss 2016. Derek McPhail and Kristopher Hamlin each had a goal and two assists as the host Dryden GM Ice Dogs beat the Lakers 4-1 on Saturday night to keep […]
Staff Three days in and it already was an unhappy New Year for the Fort Frances Lakers. Clayton Brown beat Brandon Bodnar to finish an odd-man rush at 2:37 of overtime to give the Minnesota Iron Rangers a 5-4 win in SIJHL action Tuesday night at the Ice For Kids […]
Cameron Penney Despite finishing round-robin play with a 1-3 record and missing the playoffs, local curlers Hailey Beaudry and Erin Tomalty said they were proud of their efforts at the 2017 U21 women’s provincial championship in North Bay last week. “It was a good week,” said Beaudry, who skipped the […]
Joey Payeur Anika Alexander came upon not just one but a series of crossroads in her life all at the same time. She decided it was time to detour from the familiar and rediscover what she really wanted out of life when it came to both her sporting endeavours and […]
Joey Payeur When it comes to evaluating his team so far this season, the letter ‘C’ is a recurring theme for Wayne Strachan. The head coach and general manager of the Fort Frances Lakers would be much happier if his defending three-time SIJHL champs would stumble across another ‘C’—as in […]
Joey Payeur Keith “Huffer” Christiansen wasn’t turning cartwheels upon hearing the news of the honour being bestowed upon him by his alma mater. For one thing, it’s probably slightly hazardous for a 72-year-old to be turning cartwheels. But more likely it was the fact that, like his older brother, revelling […]
Staff Jordan Sinclair probably wished he was a football coach rather than a hockey one yesterday. Then he could have declined the penalties being given to his opposition, who proved much more dangerous one player down than his team was one player up. Sinclair watched helplessly as Aaron Myers notched […]
Joey Payeur It was a bonus “Battle of the Border” for the Muskie girls’ hockey team—and nearly a winning one this time. Fort High led twice but eventually fell 3-2 to the International Falls Broncos yesterday in the bronze-medal game of the Girls’ Bronze High School Division at the Schwan […]
By Joey Payeur Staff writer jpayeur@fortfrances.com The road to the Sunset Country Squash Club’s Boxing Day tournament has gone through Steve Boileau the past two years—a roadblock Jason Kabel has seen more than enough. After being eliminated in the semi-finals of the tournament’s ‘A’ Open division by Boileau last year, […]
