Staff The Big Grassy Braves are taking on a big challenge. A large part of the core of the two-time defending Rainy River District Fastball League champions will be in Parry Sound this weekend for the All-Ontario Native Fastball Championships. Braves ace Jeff Morrison will be joined by teammates Tim […]
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Staff Never, ever count out a champion. The Redgut Babes will get a chance to defend their Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League title after a three-run rally in the bottom of the seventh carried them to a 9-8 win over Northwest Bay in their semifinal matchup at the Rodrick […]
Staff Beef’s Warriors learned on Tuesday to never wake a sleeping pack of Wolves. After falling behind 4-0 before even getting to the plate, the Sight & Sound Wolves manufactured a massive 14-run second inning and coasted from there to a 19-5 victory at VanJura Park to prevent the Warriors […]
Joey Payeur When it comes to Muskie football, Matthew Nowak isn’t going to sit quietly in the shadows anymore. With the team’s main training camp having begun on Monday, the Grade 11 defensive back is intent on rallying both his school and his community to support the black-and-gold gridiron program. […]
Joey Payeur They had a howling good time, no matter what the scoreboard said. The Fort Frances Young Wolves and their spinoff collective, the Sight & Sound U-23 Wolves, took part in the ‘A’ and Men’s Under-23 divisions, respectively, of the North American Fastpitch Association (NAFA) World Series in the […]
Joey Payeur If losing is the best teacher, Bryan Gustafson must have received the equivalent of a Masters degree last month. The last two weeks, he’s been taking the competition to school while working on his PHD—Plentiful Heaps of Dough. Describing himself as “fishing angry” since finishing second by less […]
Joey Payeur Dwayne Olson lives in Winnipeg and helps organize triathlons in Sioux Narrows. On Sunday, he owned Point Park. Olson took the lead early and left the pack behind to win the male division and finish first place overall with a time of 36:12 at the second-annual “Splash and […]
Joey Payeur Ask Jess Caul three months ago what she figured her biggest contribution to Taggs/Source for Sports would be this season and the last answer she probably would have given would have been her goalkeeping. But the noted sniper, who was second in the league in goals last season […]
Staff Two Fort Frances teams received early exits at the North American Fastpitch World Series in the Quad Cities region of Iowa and Illinois this past weekend. The Fort Frances Young Wolves finished 3-2 in the NAFA ‘A’ portion of the tournament. Meanwhile, the Sight & Sound Wolves 23-U team […]
Staff It was a hole too big to climb out of. The Fort Frances Young Wolves nearly came back from a five-run deficit, but couldn’t finish the rally and lost 5-4 to Lifetime Seamless Gutters (Wis.) in their opening game at the North American Fastpitch Association ‘A’ World Series in […]
Staff It wasn’t the game either team wanted to be in but Pharmasave decided to make the most of it. Kevin Metke and Sam Berube each scored as Pharmasave blanked the La Place Rendez-Vous Voyageurs U18 squad 2-0 last night in the men’s bronze-medal game of the Borderland Soccer League. […]
Joey Payeur The Big Grassy Lynx watched an early five-run lead disappear in the face of a Fort Frances Herricanes’ rally. Then the Lynx remembered they have a pretty powerful offence themselves. Fifth-seeded Big Grassy erupted for 18 runs over the final four innings to waltz to a 24-12 win […]
