Staff The St. Francis Sentinels now have an award over which to keep guard. The squad cruised to a 5-0-1 round-robin record on Saturday en route to the championship game, where they overcame the Crossroads Tornadoes (Devlin) by an 18-14 score. St. Francis kicked off its title run with a […]
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Staff After 320 matches, local badminton players emerged with their fair share of accolades at the Fort Frances Badminton Club’s annual tournament over the weekend at Fort High. That included a handful of first-place finishes. In the U19 girls’ division, it was an all-Fort final as Chelsea Carlson swept Kimika […]
Staff After dominating the local Monday night men’s basketball league all season, Boston Pizza came within a hair of not winning the big one. BP rallied from 11 points down in the second half—forcing overtime as time expired and then emerging with a 66-59 triumph to deny the Rendez-Vous a […]
Dan Falloon While the Muskie boys’ hockey players who were on the ice at the all-Ontarios in St. Catharines made their presence known, it arguably was the one on the sidelines who had one of the biggest impacts on Fort High’s fate. Captain Jamie Kaun, the team’s scoring leader, was […]
Dan Falloon While the Muskie boys’ hockey players who were on the ice at the all-Ontarios in St. Catharines made their presence known, it arguably was the one on the sidelines who had one of the biggest impacts on Fort High’s fate. Captain Jamie Kaun, the team’s scoring leader, was […]
Dan Falloon Ken McKinnon thought he’d never see the day when he would hoist the trophy for the local men’s bonspiel. But at age 74, everything clicked into place for McKinnon on Sunday as he won an international showdown in the ‘A’-event final against Tom Mayer of International Falls by […]
Dan Falloon It took a minor upset for the Raymond Roy rink to punch a ticket to the club provincial playdowns, but it wasn’t a match the locals had a hand in. Roy and his rink of Dave Broman, Butch Wensley, and Patrick Briere already were sitting with a 4-1 […]
Dan Falloon It all came down to Sunday morning. With Kim Beaudry and Kenora’s Crystal Wojtowicz both sitting at 2-0, the round-robin finale between the two rinks essentially morphed into a tournament final. At stake: a berth in the club provincial playdowns April 8-11 at the Port Arthur Curling Club […]
Dan Falloon The standings show the Lorne Jackson rink finished 2-3 at the mixed curling provincial playdowns in Kenora over the weekend, but the skip was thrilled with his squad’s performance nonetheless. “We played quite well,” he enthused. “We lost a couple games that pretty much just came down to […]
Dan Falloon Jeff Johnston has done more than his part to help conservation efforts in Rainy Lake District. And now the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters has recognized Johnston’s work by awarding him the Gord Blake Memorial Conservation Award, which is “given to the individual O.F.A.H. member whose efforts […]
Dan Falloon Tirzah Keffer and her Muskie girls’ rink said they were just happy to have made it to the all-Ontarios in Toronto last week. But looking at some of their results, it’s a little hard to believe. Keffer and her rink of third Samantha Mueller, second Carley Busch, and […]
Dan Falloon With a roller coaster 2009-10 season just minutes behind them, all the Fort Frances Lakers could do was look back and gasp in awe at what they had accomplished. “If you’d have said a month or six weeks ago that we’d be playing in Game 6 of the […]
