Joey Payeur Countless miles travelled on the road and skated on the ice together formulated a friendship to last a lifetime between Scott Clendenning and Todd Hamilton. Now Hamilton and the rest of the local hockey community, along with Clendenning’s family and friends, are forced to deal with the harsh […]
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Staff The Fort Frances Lakers will begin their post-season march to a second-straight Bill Salonen Cup here Friday night. As expected, the SIJHL announced the best-of-seven semi-final series between the first-place Lakers and fourth-place Thunder Bay North Stars will get underway Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Ice For Kids […]
Staff Peggy Taylor’s Kenora-based rink, representing Northern Ontario, got off to a 1-2 start at the Canadian senior women’s curling championship in Edmonton. The rink, which features Fort Frances resident Lisa Penner playing third, was routed 13-1 in six ends by two-time women’s world champion Colleen Jones of Nova Scotia […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers’ semi-final opponent is set. The Thunder Bay North Stars beat the host English River Miners 5-3 on Friday night to sweep the best-of-five showdown between the fourth- and fifth-place teams. The North Stars now will face the first-place Lakers in a best-of-seven showdown that will […]
Staff If things continue the way they are going in the first round of the SIJHL playoffs, Wyatt Cota and Kris Kellaway won’t be in much of a sharing mood late next week. The forwards from the Fort Frances Lakers and Thunder Bay North Stars, respectively, yesterday were named co-recipients […]
Joey Payeur Lisa Penner will be the voice of experience on her rink next week. The Fort Frances resident is playing third for the Peggy Taylor rink, based out of Kenora, as they represent Northern Ontario at the Canadian Senior Curling Championships in Edmonton. The rink, which also features second […]
Staff The Flames weren’t too hot as a group but their goalie sure was. Andrew North made 42 saves to backstop the 10th-seeded Patrick Fogarty Flames (Orillia) to a 3-1 victory over the fourth-ranked Muskie boys’ hockey team in the quarter-finals at the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ championship last Thursday morning in […]
Staff The win-loss record wasn’t a big deal to Anne Jean. The fact her team got to be around to post any kind of record was a reward in itself. “It was definitely amazing,” said the Grade 11 member of the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team, which went 1-3 at […]
Joey Payeur Wyatt Cota was getting no end of grief from his teammates for his stick selection. But it was Cota who got the last laugh in a way the English River Miners found none too amusing. The 20-year-old Kingston product netted a natural hat trick Friday night to key […]
Joey Payeur For the seven players who had skated their last stride with the Muskie girls’ hockey team, it was a close call as to what was the more overwhelming feeling. There was the pain of coming up one win short in their bid for a first-ever OFSAA ‘A/AA’ crown […]
Joey Payeur Wyatt Cota was a natural choice to pave the way to one final Fort Frances Lakers’ regular-season victory. Cota scored a natural hat trick in the third period to help the Lakers to a 4-0 win over the English River Miners here Friday night. It was the last […]
Joey Payeur It was black-and-gold with plenty of blue mixed in, plus one sparkling silver lining. The third-ranked Muskie girls’ hockey team ran into a buzzsaw in the form of the top-seeded St. Michael Warriors (Stratford), who captured the gold medal at the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ championship in Kenora with a […]
