Joey Payeur Maggie Jean was at the eye of a storm of jubilation and barely realized it. The low-key Grade 10 striker converted a redirection from Jessica Baxter at the 20-minute mark for the only goal of the game as the Muskie girls’ soccer team earned a 1-0 victory Friday […]
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Joey Payeur Marie-Mai Langevin is ready to take on the world. The Fort Frances resident was unstoppable at the FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby national qualifier in Valley City, N.D. this past weekend, going undefeated in 14 races Friday to outdo a field of 26 other cars to win the […]
Staff Two members of last year’s SIJHL championship team will have new addresses this fall. Forward Brent Aiken and defenceman John Dora were revealed yesterday by the Fort Frances Lakers as the final pieces of two separate trade puzzles which occurred earlier last season. Aiken is off to the English […]
Staff First half, soccer game. Second half, pinball game. Hailey Beaudry booted a hat trick and Angel McCormack added a pair to lead the defending champion La Place Rendez-Vous Voyageurs U18 squad to a 7-4 triumph over Al’s Racquet Stringing in the season-opener for the women’s division of the Borderland […]
Staff The Muskie girls’ squad finished its stay at the OFSAA ‘AA’ championships in Collingwood with a 4-0 loss to the Holy Trinity Catholic High School Titans (Simcoe) on Friday. That left Fort High with a 1-3 record to put them in fourth place in the five-team Pool ‘B.’ The […]
Staff Jacob Empey has come a long way in a year, but discovered he’ll need to go much farther to compete with the province’s elite. Empey wound up in 23rd place in the junior men’s long jump at the OFSAA track-and-field championships in Mississauga yesterday with a leap of 4.82m. […]
Press Release Pro angler Jeff Gustafson of Kenora caught the biggest bass of his life yesterday–a huge 10-pound, 12-oz. monster–to anchor his five-fish limit and grab the lead after Day 1 of the Walmart FLW Tour at Pickwick Lake in Alabama. Gustafson held a slim 15-oz. lead over ledge-fishing guru […]
Joey Payeur The Muskie girls’ soccer team put a difficult day yesterday behind them by nabbing a win this morning at the OFSAA ‘AA’ championships in Collingwood. Maggie Jean scored the only goal of the game 20 minutes into the first half, and Liz Allan and Amy Penner combined for […]
Staff It’s still early but the Rainy River District Fastball League season already is developing into a two-horse race. The Fort Frances-based Sight & Sound Wolves and the two-time defending champion Big Grassy Braves gradually are separating themselves from the pack at the top of the standings. Each improved to […]
Staff When the Redgut Babes’ boat left the dock, the engine was coughing and sputtering. But when all cylinders started firing, they resembled a runaway speedboat. Beulah Perreault had five hits and six RBIs, and Tracy Morningstar tossed a one-hit complete game, as the Babes rolled to a 29-1 victory […]
Joey Payeur The Muskie girls’ soccer team knew it was walking into a lions’ den. Alas, somebody apparently tipped off the lions ahead of time. The second-ranked Belle River District High School Nobles scored all their goals in the first half in a 6-0 blitzing of Fort High this morning […]
Joey Payeur Soccer doesn’t have an artistic impression element so Shane Beckett wasn’t worrying about style points. “It doesn’t matter how you win it as long as you win it,” said the relieved head coach of the Muskie boys’ soccer team, which now can boast four-straight NorWOSSA crowns after surviving […]
