Joey Payeur The band may be getting back together—the one that was the SIJHL’s greatest hit-makers the past three seasons. Jaden Gustafson had his first two goals of the season, and his first two-goal game in Junior ‘A,’ as the Fort Frances Lakers doubled the expansion Thief River Falls Norskies […]
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Staff The Fort Frances Lakers finally may have turned a corner that didn’t have a locomotive coming from the other direction. Dylan Kooner made a successful return to the lineup by scoring the game-winning goal in the third period as the Lakers edged the host English River Miners 3-2 in […]
Staff Defending league champion How I Set Your Mother earned the maximum six points last night to surge atop the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League standings with 39 in all. Kiss My Pass dropped down to second place (37), followed by No Diggity (36) and Let’s Talk About Sets (29). […]
Staff Action is in full swing in the Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association. Here is a rundown of game results from the past few weeks: The Fort Frances PeeWee Lightning battled the Fort Frances PeeWee Fusion to a 4-4 tie. Savannah McGinnis and Jorja Pope scored for the Lightning while […]
SubmittedConrad Dueck Week 2 of the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League season saw more new players coming out, meaning most ever team had plenty of subs—and thus fresh legs—throughout the game. The added bodies didn’t equal up to more points on the board, however, as the scores were low once […]
Staff Dawson Waddell is a man on the move. The 18-year-old from Brandon, Man. was acquired late last night by the Fort Frances Lakers from the Steinbach Pistons (MJHL) in exchange for a player development fee. It was the Lakers’ first regular-season deal this season. Lakers’ head coach and general […]
Staff The four Muskie court teams were kept out of the winners’ circle Tuesday at the NorWOSSA playoffs in Dryden. Three of the four played in their respective finals but were denied gold by the host Eagles each time. The heavily-favoured senior and junior girls’ basketball teams both were upset […]
Joey Payeur “Silver Linings Playbook” not only is an Oscar-nominated movie but an accurate depiction of Jordan Sinclair’s end-of-the-weekend review. His Muskie boys’ hockey team was on the wrong end of a three-game sweep at the hands of the Thunder Bay Minor Midget ‘AAA’ Kings—losing 4-3 on Friday, followed by […]
Joey Payeur It’s been a while since Jackie McCormick had a shot at a Canadian title. But she has given a long look to the ceiling of her hometown Stratton Curling Club and has envisioned a shiny new decoration to join the two already hanging from it. “The last national […]
Staff There’s a time and a place for everything. In this instance, however, the time was more important than the place. The Muskie cross-country running team sent two reps to the OFSAA championships in Port Hope on Saturday, with Tori Toriseva coming in 164th out of 284 in the 3.2K […]
Staff It’s not possible to book the same team for an entire regular season, but the Fort Frances Lakers certainly wouldn’t turn down the chance when it comes to the Minnesota Iron Rangers. Ryan Wagner made 40 stops as the Lakers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-0 win […]
Staff Kiss My Pass have passed the former front-runner in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League. Thanks to a five-point haul last night, the Kiss crew vaulted into first place with 35 points. That puts them two up on No Diggity, who had a season-worst one-point showing last night to […]
