Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers decided not to dwell on their first losing streak of the season. Tanner Fricke scored the shootout winner last night as the Lakers edged the Minnesota Iron Rangers 4-3 in Hoyt Lakes. The Lakers (30-5-0-2) hit the 30-win plateau while rebounding from their first […]
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Joey Payeur A Fort Frances native is in the running for the top individual honour in U.S. college hockey—and hometown supporters can help him earn the accolade. Goalie Ryan Faragher of the NCAA Division I St. Cloud State Huskies is one of 68 players under consideration for the Hobey Baker […]
Joey Payeur Lindsay Cain buried her head into her third’s shoulder in half-joking fashion, not really wanting to see what was about to unfold. The Atikokan skip needed divine intervention but it was Hailey Beaudry and her Fort Frances rink whose prayers were answered Saturday at the Stratton Curling Club. […]
Joey Payeur There might be some undetected four-leaf clover sprinkled in Mike Badiuk’s DNA. The Devlin native certainly has been a good-luck charm to any skip he teams up with in recent years. Badiuk, who now lives in Thunder Bay and plays second for Dylan Johnston, will be heading to […]
Joey Payeur It had been 111 long and mostly miserable days since the Wisconsin Wilderness had tasted victory. Surely the remedy to what ailed them couldn’t have been the first-place Fort Frances Lakers—winners of seven-straight going into their match-up Saturday night in Spooner. Then again, some winter tales have endings […]
Joey Payeur Jonathan Glueheisen wants the whole nation to hear the hockey heartbeat of Fort Frances. The local resident once again is spearheading the community’s bid in the Kraft Hockeyville 2014 contest, which is back after a one-year hiatus due to the NHL lockout at the start of last season. […]
Staff It was an up-and-down day for the four Muskie court teams yesterday in Dryden. The junior boys’ basketball team improved their NorWOSSA record to 5-0 with a 43-38 victory over the Eagles (0-4). But the senior Muskies (3-2) couldn’t pull out an overtime thriller against the host Eagles (3-1), […]
Staff It was a loss they couldn’t afford to take. The Tracy Horgan rink from Sudbury, with Devlin’s Jenna Enge playing second, fell 8-6 to Cathy Auld (Mississauga) in the second of three draws Friday at the 2014 Ontario Scotties provincial women’s curling championship in Sault Ste. Marie. Despite beating […]
Joey Payeur A year ago, one rock kept Hailey Beaudry from a shot at provincial glory. The same situation presented itself Saturday at the Stratton Curling Club—and Beaudry wasn’t about to let the moment pass her by again. The Fort Frances skip tapped back her opponent’s stone to clinch an […]
Joey Payeur One team had won seven games in a row and was the fifth-ranked team in the country. The other had lost 32 in a row and probably was ranked in the bottom five. And yet, in the words of ESPN broadcasting legend Chris Berman, that is why they […]
Staff Devlin’s female curling dynamo had a hand in making the last unbeaten team at the 2014 Ontario Scotties unbeaten no more. Second Jenna Enge is part of the Tracy Horgan rink from Sudbury, which knocked off Allison Flaxey (Listowel) 7-3 this morning. Flaxey had come into today in first […]
Joey Payeur It was a clean sweep for the four Muskie court teams in NorWOSSA action here yesterday against the Kenora Broncos. Caleb McIntosh lit up the visitors for a game-high 31 points to pace the senior boys’ basketball team (3-1) to a 67-31 romp. Kevin Metke added 11 while […]
