Lucas Punkari With her opening game at the M&M Canadian Junior Curling Championships in Fort McMurray, Alta. only days away, it’s starting to hit home for Fort Frances native Tirzah Keffer that she and the rest of her rink from the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay will be […]
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Staff It was the proverbial bag of mixed results for the Fort Frances Lakers, who came away from a pair of weekend road games with both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The Lakers cruised to a 10-4 triumph over the host Thunder Bay North Stars on […]
Staff With only two round-robin games left at the Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts playdowns in Waterloo today, Tracy Horgan’s Sudbury rink needs to win out to have any chance of making the playoffs. The defending provincial champs, which includes Devlin native and former Muskie Jenna Enge at second, entered […]
Staff The latest pair of games in the Fort Frances men’s basketball league Monday night at Fort High resulted in a couple of firsts. Taggs earned its first win of the season with a dramatic 92-91 triumph over the Muskies in the night’s opening contest. Trailing by two points with […]
Staff If Tracy Horgan’s rink wants to represent Ontario again at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts this year, they are going to have to be nearly perfect over the final two days of round-robin play at the provincial playdowns. Heading into action today at the Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club, the Sudbury-based […]
Staff For the second time this season, St. Cloud State Huskies’ goalie Ryan Faragher nabbed the WCHA’s defensive player-of-the-week honours. The 22-year-old Fort Frances native, in his sophomore season with the Huskies, earned a pair of home victories over Denver last weekend. Faragher made 23 saves in the Huskies’ 5-2 […]
Lucas Punkari It was a tournament to remember for Bryan Gustafson. The local angler finished in the money for the first time with a 48th-place finish in the FLW EverStart Series Southeast Division season-opener Jan. 10-12 at Lake Okeechobee, Fla. “For all of the stuff that I went through during […]
Lucas Punkari The Minnesota Wilderness may be entrenched in first place but four teams are in the race for second place in the SIJHL standings. And while there’s still a long way to go, the Fort Frances Lakers made a big statement Friday night in Hoyt Lakes, defeating the host […]
Lucas Punkari It’s been more than a month since the colours of the black-and-gold have taken to the ice and courts, but that’s about to change. After a conference call last Tuesday, plans were drawn up for the Muskie hockey, basketball, volleyball, and curling teams to resume play later this […]
Staff The Tracy Horgan rink from Sudbury, which features Devlin curler Jenna Enge at second, began defence of their Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts title on a winning note last night in Waterloo. Horgan, who also is joined by third Jennifer Horgan and lead Amanda Gates, opened round-robin play last […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers took full advantage of what proved to be their only game of the weekend Friday night in Hoyt Lakes, beating the Minnesota Iron Rangers 4-1 to move into third place in the SIJHL standings. The Lakers (19-13-1-2) have 41 points—two ahead of the Thunder Bay […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ and girls’ hockey teams will be returning to the ice shortly. Following a meeting between the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board, the Rainy River District School Board, and Fort High administration, an abbreviated schedule was drawn up. They’ve been away from NorWOSSA action since early December due […]
