Joey Payeur Early-game misery, mid-game heroics, late-inning drama. The Fort Frances Her-icanes followed the same path two games in a row—and both times it worked. A five-run fifth inning proved to be the difference last night as the top-ranked ’Canes beat the sixth-seeded Red Gut Babes 9-7 last night at […]
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Staff A bleary-eyed team of Northern Ontario Selects went down to defeat knowing they couldn’t have performed much better. The Selects, composed of players from the Rainy River District Fastball League, fought their way out of the losers’ bracket of the ‘A’ Division of the 2016 North American Fastpitch Association […]
Staff It was bad news times two for the pair of Rainy River District teams competing at the North American Fastpitch Association World Series yesterday in North Mankato, Mn. The Northern Ontario Selects fell 8-7 in eight innings to Len’s Automotive (St. Paul, Mn.) in their first-round game in the […]
Staff Rainy River District will have three teams in action at the 2016 North American Fastpitch Association World Series in North Mankato, Mn., which starts today. The Northern Ontario Selects will take on Len’s Automotive at 2:30 p.m. in a first-round game in the ‘A’ winners’ bracket. The Pinewood Expos, […]
Staff The ball left Stacy Patey’s bat bound for a place far, far away. Now the Fort Frances Her-icanes get to try and win their first-ever Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League crown on home turf. Patey’s second-inning inside-the-park grand slam broke a 3-3 tie and propelled the top-seeded ’Canes […]
Joey Payeur From third place to second place to no place at all. The Rainy River Community College Voyageurs women’s hockey team, which reached the podium at the past two ACHA Division II national championships, will be shelved for at least this season, it was announced Monday. Five of the […]
Joey Payeur A Big Island teenager acted like quite the big shot—but in a good way. Julianna Indian would have made Robin Hood envious with her gold medal-winning display in the advanced level division of compound archery at the Ontario Aboriginal Summer Games in Brantford and Six Nations last month. […]
Joey Payeur Getting to host the OFSAA ‘AA’ boys’ hockey championship normally would be looked at as a compelling reason to stay in a certain area. But with every passing week, and with the high school season just weeks away from training camp, the Muskies continue to see an exodus […]
Staff Abby Sanders, Myla Angus, and Max Williams all know a thing or two about winning. Sanders and Angus each scored twice as the La Place Rendez-Vous U18 Voyageurs capped a sensational season with a 4-0 victory over Taggs in the women’s division final of the Borderland Soccer League last […]
Staff It all comes down to this. The Borderland Soccer League will crown its season champs in the women’s and men’s divisions tonight, with both finals beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Struchan Gilson Memorial Soccer Pitch. In women’s play, the heavily-favoured La Place Rendez-Vous U18 Voyageurs will face Taggs. […]
Staff There will be a new top gun in the Rainy River District Fastball League this season. Amy Penner scored from third on an error in the bottom of the seventh to give the top-ranked Fort Frances Her-icanes a 10-9 win over the defending champion Northwest Bay Beavers in the […]
Joey Payeur The gauntlet has been thrown down and Amy Wilson-Hands’ troops are ready to pick it up and smack someone upside the head with it. Leading the Region 1 girls volleyball as head coach along with assistant coach Terry McMahon, Wilson-Hands has heard ad nauseum the history of the […]
