Lucas Punkari For the first time in the 13-year history of the Fort Frances Girls Hockey Novice and Atom tournament, a host squad has captured the Atom crown. The Rolling Lake Lightning accomplished the feat Sunday afternoon at the Ice For Kids Arena by blanking the Emo Penguins 4-0 in […]
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Joey Payeur With all hands on deck for the entire day this time around, the St. Francis Sentinels made it clear they are the team to beat this season when it comes to Grade 8 girls’ basketball. The Sentinels were the cream of the crop at the J.W. Walker Wildcats’ […]
Joey Payeur They weren’t expecting any housewarming gifts from their visitors. But the Robert Moore Mustangs’ Grade 8 boys’ basketball team made sure they reclaimed a souvenir to remember a historic day all the same. The host Mustangs edged the St. Francis Sentinels 10-6 on Saturday in the gold-medal game […]
Staff A pair of local bowling teams will be representing Sunset Country at the YBC provincial roll-offs March 5-6 in North Bay after striking gold at the zone round last weekend at Plaza Lanes here. The Bantam girls’ team, consisting of Alexis Parker, Kora Cook, Alina Eldridge, and Jacey Bump, […]
the MNR A Kenora resident has been fined $1,500 for offences related to wolf hunting. Jacques Choquette was fined $1,000 for abandoning the wolf pelt and $500 for failing to attach a game seal to the wolf. Court heard that on Oct. 16, conservation officers came across Choquette and his […]
Press Release The Superior International Junior Hockey League announced yesterday the finalists for the respective individual awards for the 2010-11 regular season. The determination process saw each SIJHL member organization submit names of those eligible, from their own team, as nominees for the various awards. From those submissions, the clubs […]
Staff The Fort Frances Skates & Blades Novice boys’ hockey team fared well in Kenora over the weekend, coming home with a second-place finish out of the 16-team field. Having gone undefeated up until the final, it would be Greendale (Winnipeg) that ended any chance of Skates & Blades taking […]
With only five games left in the SIJHL’s regular season, the game plan couldn’t be any clearer for the Fort Frances Lakers. “This is probably the biggest stretch of the season for us,” stressed Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan. “Depending on what happens in the next four […]
Lucas Punkari It’s all come down to this for the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team as they look to edge closer to the NWOSSAA showdown to determine who will head to the all-Ontarios in March. The squad, along with their junior counterparts as well as both Muskie girls’ volleyball squads, […]
Lucas Punkari While her team may not have beaten the Dryden Eagles during the regular season, the confidence that Muskie senior girls’ volleyball player Megan Veniot extolled heading into the NorWOSSA playoffs this Friday in Kenora spoke volumes. “We’ve been saving everything for them and we’re going to absolutely destroy […]
Lucas Punkari While his win-loss record was better than it was a year ago, Tim Nordin of the Stratton Curling Club came away empty-handed for the second-straight year at the Northern Ontario men’s provincial curling championships last week. After finishing with a 2-9 mark last year in Sudbury, Nordin escaped […]
Lucas Punkari It only took a couple of minutes, but the after-shock of what had transpired in the late stags of the second period between the Muskie girls’ hockey team and Kenora Broncos on Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena was visible for all to see. Trailing 3-1 […]
