Staff There was nothing weak about Nick Minerva’s week. The Fort Frances Lakers’ defenceman yesterday was chosen as the SIJHL’s final regular-season winner of the Amyotte’s Awards & Promotions player-of-the-week honour. Minerva, a 20-year-old from New Brunswick, N.J., is a repeat winner of the award after also being recognized back […]
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Staff It’s all about team accomplishments, not individual awards. So goes the mantra of the Fort Frances Lakers. But the SIJHL clearly wasn’t listening. The league announced the finalists for each of its year-end awards, with a Laker being nominated in all seven categories. Forward Dylan Robertson, the SIJHL scoring […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers reached their goal by scoring plenty of goals. Dylan Robertson converted Nick Minerva’s between-the-legs feed for a power-play goal at 2:05 of overtime to cap a 5-4 victory over the visiting English River Miners as the Lakers wrapped their regular-season schedule yesterday afternoon. Coupled […]
Press Release The Borderland Judo Club recently hosted the first judo tournament in the Fort Frances area in decades. Competitors from as far west as Portage La Prairie, Man., and as far east as Marathon, showed up at the local Shiai to compete for a custom-made medal. Early in the […]
The Associated PressJonah Bronstein BUFFALO, N.Y.—The Montreal Canadiens took advantage of fortunate bounces to bounce back from a two-game losing streak. Two of Montreal’s goals went in off the stick of a Buffalo defender, including Paul Byron’s winner at 3:15 of overtime, as the Canadiens nipped the Sabres 3-2 last […]
Joey Payeur Jackie McCormick will get to play for a national championship again—and this time she gets to take her brother along. The Stratton native played third for skip Trevor Bonot, who now lives in Thunder Bay, as the rink captured the mixed provincial crown yesterday at the Fort Frances […]
Joey Payeur Chris Silver’s crew wasn’t completely satisfied with how they etched their name in Muskie curling lore. But they weren’t wallowing in tears of disappointment, either, despite falling just one point short of becoming the most accomplished Fort High rink ever. Silver and his team of third Daniel Vandenbrand, […]
Joey Payeur Shilo Beck said she felt like a kid on Christmas Eve the night before the biggest game of her hockey career. Then Santa Claus showed up in the form of Katherine Johnson—leaving a most unwanted lump of coal in the stocking of the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs […]
Joey Payeur In Jamie Davis’ mind, there was never a doubt. “They always seem to find a way to do it,” said the head coach of the newly-crowned OFSAA ‘A/AA’ boys’ hockey champion Muskies after they captured the program’s fourth provincial title with a 5-3 win over the Silverthorn Spartans […]
Joey Payeur The man who’s been referred to as “the Wayne Gretzky of fastball” will be bringing his immeasurable wealth of pitching wisdom to share with players here in Rainy River District. International Softball Congress Hall of Fame inductee Darren Zack, originally from Garden River First Nation east of Sault […]
Cameron Penney OTTAWA—Although no one knew it at the time, the game between the fifth-ranked Muskie boys’ hockey team and the No. 18 Frontenac Falcons (Kingston) on the opening morning of the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ championship in Ottawa last week proved to be a battle of juggernauts. The Falcons seemingly upset […]
Staff Christian Ripley’s latest work has the top of the SIJHL point production board starting to look like a roll call for the Fort Frances Lakers. The 20-year-old forward from Duluth collected eight points in three games to be named the Amyotte’s Awards & Promotions Corp. player-of-the-week yesterday. Ripley’s efforts, […]
