Joey Payeur When it was time to play, the Muskie girls’ hockey team decided playtime was over. With the sour taste of a 7-4 exhibition loss to the International Falls Broncos here Tuesday night still in their mouths, the black-and-gold came out snorting fire last night in routing the host […]
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SubmittedConrad Dueck Play continues to be fun to watch, and the competition is fierce, in the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League. In a closely-fought first half in Tuesday night’s opening game, Revco did a great job of shutting down RRFN scoring machine Sam Soderman by holding him to only seven […]
Staff One of the SIJHL’s best scorers cooled off the league’s hottest team. Nicholas Nigro had two goals and an assist last night as the host Thunder Bay North Stars snapped the Fort Frances Lakers’ five-game winning streak with a 5-3 victory. With the loss, combined with Thief River Falls’ […]
Joey Payeur Jenna Walsh had one of her best friends prove last week the size of the town one is from doesn’t matter when it comes to achieving curling greatness. The former Devlin resident was overjoyed when Stratton native Trevor Bonot, along with his sister, Jackie McCormick, and Thunder Bay’s […]
Joey Payeur More Fort Frances residents who climbed to elite status in the local sporting community will take their rightful historical place next summer. The latest group of inductees into the Fort Frances Sports Hall of Fame was announced this past week, with ceremonies slated to take place Aug. 12. […]
Staff In comes two, out goes three more. The tweaking of the Fort Frances Lakers’ roster continued yesterday with the announcement of two trades. Forward Austin Petrie was acquired from the Richmond (Va.) Generals of the United States Premier Hockey League Elite for a player development fee. Petrie, 19, is […]
Staff There will be half the hockey to watch than originally was planned for tonight at the Memorial Sports Centre. The NorWOSSA game between the Muskie boys’ hockey team and the Dryden Eagles—set for the ’52 Canadians Arena—was postponed due to poor weather conditions in the Dryden area. A make-up […]
Staff To those ready to bury the Fort Frances Lakers this season, it may be time to put the shovels away. The three-time defending SIJHL champs extended their season-high winning streak to five games with a pair of road victories over the weekend. The Lakers earned a wild 6-5 overtime […]
Staff The Fort Frances Atom Black Panthers captured their division at the “November Chill” tournament in Thunder Bay over the weekend, defeating the Thunder Bay Ice Cycles 3-0 in the final. Madison Bliss earned the shutout while Kiera Fairnington had the game-winning goal (the other goal scorers weren’t provided). The […]
Joey Payeur Two days, three games, 25 goals scores, none allowed. The bad news? That belongs to the rest of NorWOSSA because both Muskie hockey squads say they can play much better. The girls’ squad dumped the Kenora Broncos 8-0 in their regular-season home-opener Tuesday night at the Ice For […]
Staff The action was fast and furious, both here and away, the last couple of weeks for teams in the Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association. On Tuesday, the Fort Frances Atom Competitive Leafs blanked the Fort Frances PeeWee Fusion 4-0. Fairnington, Piper Miller, Courtney McCoy, and Julia Guertin all scored […]
Joey Payeur Erin Shikowsky professes to liking challenges—and she isn’t shying away from the big one that now faces her. Shikowsky recently was hired as the head coach for the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs women’s hockey team, replacing Jeff Wickstrom, who stepped down due to serious health issues involving […]
