Staff Anyone who thinks they know how stubborn athletes can be may have seen nothing yet. Falls High School will host what should be a unique and entertaining fundraising event this Wednesday (Jan. 18) at 7 p.m. when “Dairyland Donkey Basketball” takes over the gym for a pair games. Fort […]
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Staff Todd Hamilton left town for one game and his team got itself in the middle of a Wild West shootout. The Muskie girls’ hockey team luckily had one more bullet in the chamber—the one Annalise (CC) Hayes fired home for the game-winner with 1:12 to go to lift Fort […]
Staff No matter in what place or at what time they crossed the finish line, the most important first of the day already belonged to the host contingent. The Muskie Nordic ski team welcomed four other schools to the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club trails on Rocky Inlet yesterday for […]
Staff A new scoring threat in the Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League announced her presence not with a booming voice but a trio of booming kicks last night. Bryanna Dustin netted a hat trick to guide D-Feeters to a 4-0 shutout of Tough Enough in the second game of the […]
Staff Wayne Strachan picked up two new players, then his team went out and picked up much-needed two points with everyone sharing the load. Eight different players tallied as the Fort Frances Lakers tied their season-high in goals with an 8-2 shellacking of the Minnesota Iron Rangers last night down […]
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 […]
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 […]
