Staff Close but no cigar. The Minnesota Iron Rangers nearly pulled off their first win at the Ice For Kids Arena this season Saturday night. Instead, it was heartbreak for the visitors, who fell 3-2 in a shootout to the host Fort Frances Lakers as Nolan Ross scored the only […]
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The Associated PressBarry Wilner CHARLOTTE, N.C—Superman is bringing his cape and his pen to Super Bowl 50. He’s leaving behind his camera. “Yeah, we are going to the Super Bowl. We are not going just to take pictures,” Cam Newton said yesterday after leading the Carolina Panthers into the big […]
Staff The SIJHL family appears to have added another member. The league announced Friday it has awarded a conditional expansion franchise to Thief River Falls, Mn. that, once confirmed, will join the SIJHL starting next season. The league’s board of governors voted unanimously to award the franchise—contingent on approval by […]
Staff Raymond Roy will hope to become more masterful by later today. The Fort Frances skip and his team of third Don DeBenedet, second Brent Taylor (Atikokan), and lead Ian McLennan fell 5-4 to Gord Williams (Thunder Bay) in their first game of the 2016 Masters men’s provincial curling championship […]
Staff Scared Hitless is getting serious. They were the only team to garner the maximum six points in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action last night. Scared Hitless is tied with league-leading How I Set Your Mother for the most points in the season’s second half with 17—and have 62 […]
Staff Wake up, Maggie, I think I’ve got something to say to you—you’ve got a pretty amazing scoring touch. Maggie Jean netted six goals in a 7-2 win for the Wright Physiotherapy Rockettes over the Boston Pizza Ball Blasters in Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League play last night at Fort […]
Staff Happy early birthday to “The Marine Machine”. Two days before turning 18, Fort Frances native Megan Carlson notched two victories for the Lynn University Fighting Knights (Boca Raton, Fla.) in their dual meet against the host Rollins University Tars (Winter Park, Fla.) on Saturday. Carlson was first in the […]
Staff It’s been lights out for anyone trying to dim Team Black’s ambitions of victory so far this season in the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League. Josh Mastin netted 41 points to carry Team Black to a 97-75 win over Team Red on Tuesday at J.W. Walker School. John Sivonen […]
Staff The Fort Frances Bantam Leafs needed either two more goals or one less two-player crash. Ava Miller scored 10 seconds into overtime to give the Minneapolis Storm a 3-2 win in the Leafs’ last game in the 15UB bracket at the St. Luke’s Icebreaker Invitational tournament in Duluth on […]
Staff It’s not like they don’t see each other enough on home ice. But the hockey gods have a strange sense of humour sometimes. The Fort Frances Midget ‘A’ #1 and #2 teams took their in-town rivalry on the road over the weekend at the Robin’s Minor Hockey Classic Tournament […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lions were the queens of the jungle this past week in Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association action. Marissa Kenny had both goals as the Lions edged the Emo Express 2-1 on Friday. The next day, Kenny again netted a pair, while Jersey Rose got the other […]
Staff If anyone was uncertain who the team to beat was, that was cleared up in a hurry yesterday. Defending champ Tracy Fleury (formerly Horgan) of Sudbury, with Devlin native Jenna Walsh (formerly Enge) at second, dumped Gale Wiseman of the host Timmins club 13-2 in eight ends in last […]
