Staff There seems to have been a shift in demographics at the Fort Frances Curling Club—and the positives have been all about the ladies. While some leagues are bursting at the seams, a couple are running a little bit light early on in the new season, which kicked off last […]
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Staff It turns out that to be the best, you have to beat the best—regularly. The Fort Frances Lakers (7-5) are finding that out the hard way after getting bounced 7-3 by the host Fort William North Stars (9-1) on Saturday night. On the bright side, the local Junior ‘A’ […]
Staff The Muskie football team saw its offence struggle once again as the black-and-gold suffered their second-straight shutout in Winnipeg. Playing at Canad Inns Stadium, home of the Blue Bombers, the Muskies fell 34-0 to the Sisler Spartans on Friday. Fort High (1-5) lost in Winnipeg the previous week, as […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers completed a minor deal yesterday, shipping defenceman Jake Wentz to Sioux Lookout in exchange for forward Brad Bienvenu. In Bienvenu, the Lakers get a forward with three points (a goal and two assists) so far this season after racking up seven goals and 24 points […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ golf team had a better day on the links for the second and final round at the all-Ontarios yesterday in Barrie. After sitting 19th out of 20 teams after the first round Wednesday, the black-and-gold found a bit of a groove to finish 17th with a […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ golf team suffered a rough day on the course to open the OFSAA championship yesterday in Barrie. The black-and-gold totalled a 259 to sit in 19th place out of 20 at 43-over-par heading into today’s second and final round. Fort High was eight strokes ahead of […]
Staff The Muskies court teams were close in three of four matches yesterday in Dryden, but couldn’t quite stop the Dryden Eagles from taking flight. Only the junior boys’ volleyball team (4-1) came home victorious, though it didn’t come easy—needing five sets to take a back-and-forth 3-2 win by scores […]
Staff After playing seven of their first nine games at home, Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach Wayne Strachan stressed his team needed to take on a “road warrior” mentality. The local Junior ‘A’ squad seemed to get the message last night, beating the Dryden Ice Dogs 5-2 to score their […]
Staff The Muskie cross-country team performed well at the second and final meet of the season in Dryden on Friday. Fort High sent seven runners to the run, and coach Natasha Shack was thrilled with how they placed as all seven cracked the top 20 during the five-km race. Leading […]
Staff A trio of St. Francis School students won their divisions at the regional elementary cross-country meet held last Wednesday (Oct. 6) at Crossroads School in Devlin. Zack Swing won in the Grade 5 boys’ division, edging out classmate Ayden Sunstrum, who finished in second, while Sentinels Aaron Bujold and […]
Staff Local strongman Luke Skaarup finished off his 2010 regiment in the best possible way—by winning the Bavarian Strongman Challenge in Kitchener on Saturday. Skaarup finished with 50.5 points, a full four points higher than the runner-up and 14.5 points ahead of the third-place competitor. Skaarup put together a fine […]
Staff Local curler Rob Sinclair recently received a honourary lifetime membership into the organization he helped found. Sinclair officially received the honour here last month, but it had been announced by the Northern Ontario Curling Association back in June. “It’s something I never expected,” Sinclair admitted. Sinclair said his biggest […]
