Joey Payeur There were two common themes running through the winners of the four major honours at the annual Muskie athletic awards ceremony Thursday afternoon. The quartet of elite talents who walked onto the Townshend Theatre stage to accept their respective trophies all had their interscholastic sports beginnings rooted at […]
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Staff Pierce Dushenko and Christian Ripley once again will wear the same jersey this fall, but it will be with a different logo than last season. The former Fort Frances Lakers have committed to play for the Stevenson (Maryland) University Mustangs in their inaugural season in the West Conference of […]
Staff The town is on board to help sponsor the 69th-annual OFSAA boys’ hockey championships here next March. Council is expected to vote in favour of being a “platinum” sponsor at tonight’s regular meeting, contributing a grant of $5,000 towards the 16-team tourney. This donation will be used toward ice […]
Staff Ian Jodoin celebrated his earlier accomplishment by doing what he does best. The newly-crowned Muskie male athlete of the year netted his first goal of the season as the La Place Rendez-Vous U18 Voyageurs blanked International Travel Services 3-0 in Borderland Soccer League men’s division action last night. Jodoin, […]
Staff Cole Tymkin is London bound. The 17-year-old Fort Frances resident signed an OHL Standard Players Agreement with the defending Memorial Cup champion London Knights on Tuesday, with the team officially announcing the signing on its Twitter feed yesterday. “It’s pretty exciting,” enthused Tymkin. “I had a good feeling after […]
Staff The Fort Frances Mud Dogs needed to clear their heads after some early-game difficulties. So they decided to take a walk—plenty of them. The first-place Mud Dogs (8-0) drew 11 walks, including three-straight with the bases loaded in the third, en route to a 20-9 victory over the Emo […]
Staff Marlon Douglas is in mid-season form—and the season is barely underway. Douglas scored his league-leading fourth goal as the defending men’s division champion Manitou Forest Products blanked Pharmasave 1-0 in the lone game in the Borderland Soccer League last night. Douglas, who beat Pharmasave keeper Kamil Niemczyk, has scored […]
Staff Fort Frances Lakers’ forward A.J. Rupert is bound for the NCAA Division III after committing to the Aurora (Ill.) University Spartans of the NCHA. “We are extremely pleased as this now makes [six] of our graduating 20-year-olds that are now committed to furthering their academic and hockey goals,” Lakers’ […]
Joey Payeur 2012 Canadian Olympian Rosie Cossar visited Fort Frances last week to speak at the “Celebration of Inclusive Schools” conference at La Place Rendez-Vous to share the story of her gymnastics career and her struggle, as an individual and an athlete, to come to terms with her same-sex preferences. […]
Joey Payeur They scored at will during the NorWOSSA regular season and playoffs. But while there was a will, the Muskie boys’ soccer team could not find the breakthrough they were looking for against the best in the province. Fort High, which was seeded fourth in Pool ‘C’ going into […]
Joey Payeur Jess Caul was thrust into the OFSAA cauldron but confidently declared herself unscathed in the end despite her team not reaching its stated goal. The former Muskie female athlete-of-the-year was pressed into service as the lone coach to guide the Muskie girls’ soccer team through the all-Ontario ‘AA’ […]
Joey Payeur The deck may have been stacked against her but Shelby Nosan was all in from the start—and very nearly produced a winning hand. Despite not making the final cut at the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) open tryout in Chicago on May 29, the 23-year-old Baudette, Mn. native, who […]
