Lucas Punkari A five-goal outburst in the first period propelled the Fort Frances Lakers to a convincing 10-2 victory over the expansion Iron Range Ironheads on Tuesday night in Chisholm. That double-digit explosion also was the most goals by a local team in the SIJHL since the 2008 season, when […]
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Staff Fort Frances native Ryan Faragher, in his freshman season in NCAA Division I hockey as a goalie for the St. Cloud State Huskies, was honoured as the WCHA Rookie-of-the-Week after a stellar performance last weekend against the North Dakota Fighting Sioux. Faragher, 21, made 44 saves to earn a […]
Staff The four Muskie court teams wrapped up their NorWOSSA regular-season schedule here Tuesday afternoon against the Dryden Eagles, with the junior girls’ basketball team being the lone victors. Their 38-33 win was the squad’s seventh-straight, giving the black-and-gold a 7-1 record in league play and a bye into the […]
the MNR Two Ontario residents have been fined a total of $6,000 for shooting a deer on private land. Tim Gould of Chelmsford was fined $3,500, and given a three-year hunting suspension, for trespassing for the purpose of hunting, possessing illegally-killed wildlife, and failing to immediately attach a game seal […]
Staff After battling to a 2-2 tie against the host Dryden Paper Kings to open their season the weekend prior, the Fort Frances PeeWee ‘AA’ Canadians got the upper hand in a rematch Sunday afternoon at the Ice For Kids Arena here. Noah Loveday found the back of the net […]
the MNR Three men have been fined a total of $3,500 for offences related to deer hunting. Rodney Szyszka of Ignace pleaded guilty and was fined $1,000 for trespassing to hunt white-tailed deer. He also pleaded guilty, and was fined $2,000, for not taking reasonable care to ensure that the […]
Staff The quest to repeat has begun. The Rainy River Community Voyageurs women’s hockey team, the defending ACHA Division II national champs, opened its 2011-12 season with an exhibition series versus the visiting Western Predators (Manitoba) over the weekend. The Voyageurs opened play Saturday morning with a 2-1 comeback victory […]
Staff It was exactly the start to a new campaign that the Muskie boys’ hockey team was looking for over the weekend, capturing the final of the Dryden High School tournament. The black-and-gold, who went 2-1 during the round-robin portion of the event, skated to a convincing 7-1 victory over […]
Lucas Punkari While the coaches and players on the Muskie football team are over the moon over their first-ever playoff win in the WHSFL last week, the black-and-gold aren’t basking in the glow of that achievement. Instead, they’re focused on their Currie Division semi-final showdown against the unbeaten Sisler ‘A’ […]
Lucas Punkari Just 24 hours after the Fort Frances Lakers saw their four-game winning streak snapped at the hands of the Sioux Lookout Flyers on Friday at the Ice For Kids Arena here, the most interested observer as to how the team would preform in a rematch the following night […]
Lucas Punkari It’s a simple adage that is used throughout the world of sports: If you want to better yourself as an athlete and as a team, you need to play against the best competition possible. That’s exactly what the coaches of the Muskie senior and junior boys’ volleyball teams […]
Lucas Punkari After losing their NorWOSSA season-opener to the Dryden Eagles back on Sept. 22, the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team has made sure they didn’t experience that feeling again by running roughshod through the rest of their schedule. The black-and-gold reeled off seven-straight wins, including a 38-33 victory here […]
