Staff One of the core members of the Fort Frances Lakers’ defence will be back in black and red again this fall. Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan announced today that defenceman Brandon Zajicek will rejoin the team for the upcoming season. “Brandon returns after playing a top-four […]
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Staff The La Place Rendez-Vous U18 Voyageurs had two different kinds of victories the past two nights to vault them into first place in the men’s division of the Borderland Soccer League. It was three points the easy way yesterday evening as the Voyageurs (4-1) claimed a 1-0 forfeit win […]
Staff If every game is as good as the first one, the second half of the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League is going to be a thrill ride. Jen Singleton slid home with the winning run in the bottom of the eighth as the host Couchiching Lady Raiders battled […]
Joey Payeur For 15 years, the organizing committee has been the heartbeat behind the Emo Walleye Classic and Lincoln Dunn was its pulse. The torch will be passed come next spring, though, as Dunn recently announced his resignation as chair of the tournament following his decade-and-a-half of involvement. “The memory […]
Joey Payeur Extra sessions should be extra fun for SIJHL fans this season. The league voted to adopt the 3-on-3 overtime format beginning this fall during its annual meeting in Dryden over the weekend. The concept has earned widespread praise after the NHL instituted it this past season in an […]
Joey Payeur The “dragons” are ready to set fire to the waters of the upper Rainy River. Both professionals and amateurs will gather at the Sorting Gap Marina this Saturday (June 25) for the fifth-annual Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Festival. Eight teams will square off to see whose collection of […]
Joey Payeur The Muskie boys’ hockey team will have to make do defending its OFSAA ‘AA’ boys’ championship on home ice next spring without two—and possibly three—of its brightest young prospects from this past season. Forwards Cooper Witherspoon, Nick Hahkala, and Ethan Jourdain all successfully tried out for the Thunder […]
Staff Steve Arpin watched the lightning, then drove like it. The Fort Frances native captured his first-ever checkered flag on the Red Bull Global Rallycross auto racing circuit Saturday during a doubleheader weekend at Daytona International Speedway. Arpin, who now makes his home in Cornelius, N.C., tasted victory for the […]
Staff The Red Gut Babes are back in the win column. Alyssa Windego went the distance while the Babes found just enough offence to top the visiting Sabaskong Tebinaak 13-12 in the lone Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League game last night. It was the first of what will be […]
Staff Cassandra Moffitt is holding court quite well—even if she’s not currently playing on a court. The accomplished high school and college volleyball and basketball player continued her strong rookie season in the Borderland Soccer League’s women’s division with a pair of goals to pace Al’s Racquet Stringing to a […]
The Associated Press PITTSBURGH—The Pittsburgh Penguins turned around a once-disappointing season and fired a coach before winning a fourth Stanley Cup—adversity that seemed to make yesterday’s city-wide celebration that much sweeter. Fans lined the victory parade route more than 10 deep as the players, coaches, their families, and support staff […]
Staff The rest of the Borderland Soccer League finds themselves “aprés Vous” for the moment. The Bujold brothers teamed up to help the La Place Rendez-Vous U18 Voyageurs blank Manitou Forest Products 3-0 in men’s division action last night. Aaron Bujold was unbeatable in net while older sibling, Connor, notched […]
