Staff Hailey Beaudry’s crew couldn’t turn late-night excitement into early-morning rewards. The Fort Frances skip and her rink of third Nicole Hartlin, second Erin Tomalty, and co-leads Tory and Anika Beaudry were dumped 10-2 in six ends by Tiana Gaudry (Thunder Bay) in the second tie-breaker at the junior women’s […]
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Staff The Muskie girls’ hockey team stared defeat in the face and made it blink. Annalise Hayes netted the game-winner 3:28 into overtime as the sixth-seeded Muskies erased a 2-0 deficit in the third period to beat the fourth-ranked St. Francis/North Branch Fighting Saints 3-2 in the Red Division final […]
Staff Happy New Year, same old story. Pierce Dushenko was brilliant with 49 saves, and Roshen Jaswal had a goal and an assist, as the Fort Frances Lakers edged the host Dryden GM Ice Dogs 4-3 in SIJHL action last night. It marked the eighth victory in eight tries against […]
Staff It was nothing personal; just business that Hailey Beaudry had to take care of. Beaudry opened with a four-ender, then finished with a five-ender in a 16-2 rout of fellow Fort Frances skip Ashley Payne last night at the junior women’s provincial curling championships in Sioux Lookout. With the […]
Staff If the first period was nothing to write home about for the Muskie girls’ hockey team, the second was a literary masterpiece. The sixth-ranked Muskies erased a 1-0 deficit with a four-goal second period en route to a 5-2 victory yesterday over the second-seeded Duluth Marshall Hilltoppers in the […]
Staff With the black-and-gold dam springing leaks, Cooper Witherspoon stepped in to be the “little Dutch boy.” Witherspoon stifled an opposition rally by scoring what ended up being the decisive goal in a 6-4 win for the Muskie boys’ hockey team over the Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Cardinals yesterday in their […]
Staff The Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association crammed a few more action-packed games into their stocking before breaking for the holidays. Monika Ruppenstein, Jade Belluz, Elizabeth Cousineau, and Courtney McCoy as scored as the Fort Frances AtoMC Icebergs blanked the Emo Express 4-0 last Friday. Meanwhile, Marti Woods netted four […]
Joey Payeur And now for something completely different. One week after splitting a pair of home exhibition games against separate opponents, the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs women’s basketball team earned another split against the same two in Brainerd, Mn. on Saturday. Only this time around, the tables were turned […]
Joey Payeur Molly Carlson is warming up her vocal chords for a possible rendition of “I Go to Rio” when August rolls around. The Toronto resident, who was born in Fort Frances, placed seventh in the women’s open 3m springboard finals with a total of 267.90 points at Diving Canada’s […]
Staff Colton Bodnar was a catalyst for generosity on two fronts—first from the fans, then from his own team. Bodnar and the rest of the Muskie boys’ hockey team took it to a pair of Minnesota squads during two exhibition games over the weekend that closed the book on their […]
Joey Payeur Like a summer cloudburst, the storm brought on by the Minnesota Iron Rangers dissipated in an instant thanks to the Fort Frances Lakers’ brightest ray of sunshine of late breaking through. Nick Minerva stifled an Iron Rangers’ rally with his goal at 6:45 of the third period as […]
Joey Payeur Local tennis enthusiasts appear to be close to the reality of having a place to call home once again. Community Services manager Jason Kabel confirmed Monday that the town’s application for a Trillium grant to help fund a proposed multi-use facility on the grounds of St. Francis School […]
