Joey Payeur Facing the unseemly prospect of heading on the road down two games, the Fort Frances Lakers chose to partake in a little R&R on Sunday. That would stand for Roshen (Jaswal) and Robertson (as in Dylan), who netted crucial third-period goals to lift the two-time defending league champions […]
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Joey Payeur Every long journey begins with one step. The district began its path towards more economic viability with a sports tourism planning session hosted by the Rainy River Future Development Corp. last Wednesday evening at the Copper River Inn here. Tara Allaire, the RRFDC’s development co-ordinator for marketing and […]
Joey Payeur Head coach Wayne Strachan called Game 1 of the SIJHL final the Fort Frances Lakers’ worst outing of the season. In just three days, the two-time defending champs came quite a long way in his eyes. Roshen Jaswal and Dylan Robertson had third-period goals, while Pierce Dushenko made […]
Staff There won’t be one shade of grey, never mind 50, in what literally will be a “Black” and “White” affair. Kevin Gemmell led the way with 16 points as Team White beat Team Red 58-46 in the semi-final of the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League on Monday at Fort […]
Staff The OFSAA champion of a year ago doesn’t feel like he’s in mid-season form. His medal count says otherwise. Sekina Scheibler led the Muskies’ 17-member track-and-field team with six podium finishes in six events at the season-opening Bronco Booster Invite at Falls High School yesterday. Scheibler, who won the […]
Staff Setting goals is important. Aaron Bujold makes reaching those goals look easy. The Grade 10 member of the Muskie badminton team claimed his second-straight senior boys’ singles title at the NorWOSSA finals Wednesday in Atikokan. “My goal was to go undefeated,” said Bujold, who went 4-0 to earn the […]
Staff That 12-game winning streak for the Lakers? That season-long mastery of the Dryden GM Ice Dogs? That home-ice advantage for the entire SIJHL playoffs? Forget about all of it—just like the Lakers need to forget about last night as quickly as possible. Josh Oberg and Tanner Watt each scored […]
The Associated PressBrian Mahoney NEW YORK—With Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan not around, a rookie was one of the most experienced players for the Toronto Raptors. Norman Powell may be carrying a Disney “Princess” backpack as a first-year player’s initiation, but he’s got 24 starts in the NBA. And he […]
Staff Yenta Davidson apparently was just biding her time offensively. Having not scored all season, she exploded for a hat trick to lead the Wright Physiotherapy Rockettes to a 5-0 shutout over the La Place Rendez-Vous Rage last night in Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League action at Fort High. It […]
Staff They were the best two teams during the regular season—now they’ll get to see who is the best of the post-season. The two-time defending SIJHL champion Fort Frances Lakers will face the Dryden GM Ice Dogs in the final for a second-straight year after Dryden beat the host Thunder […]
Joey Payeur It’s a win for the environmental lobbyists. But the president of the North Western Ontario Tourism Association said the cancellation of a Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry proposal to loosen restrictions on wolf and coyote hunting in Northern Ontario won’t be a shot-in-the-arm for local resort owners. […]
Joey Payeur One went all the way to OFSAA last year; the other hasn’t played competitively in four years. Aaron Bujold and Jacob Jack are the Muskie badminton version of “The Odd Couple,” but they will gladly go together to Atikokan today as the lone black-and-gold players to advance to […]
