Staff The Muskie girls’ hockey team handed out individual awards at its year-end banquet Monday night. Winners were as follows: •Rookie of the Year—Jillian Langtry •Most Improved—Jessica Taggart •Most Sportsmanlike—Haven Labbe •Most Dedicated—Erika Anderson •Coaches’ Award—Anikka McTavish •Most Valuable Player—Taylor Meyers The graduating class of Taylor Meyers, Lauren Krukoski, Haven […]
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Press Release If you were wandering around town over the weekend, you may have noticed a lot of unfamiliar faces on the streets and in the stores. In addition to the curling, badminton, and other activities going on, there were 11 broomball teams in action at the 27th-annual Drew McKelvie […]
Staff Kris Sinclair’s rink from Fort Frances beat Nancy Campbell (Atikokan) 11-3 after six ends at the regional playdowns in Atikokan on March 21-22 to advance to the Dominion Curling Northern Ontario provincials. Sinclair beat Campbell 8-6 in an earlier game and also nipped Carol George (Sioux Lookout) 8-7 to […]
Staff The accolades keep rolling in for Fort Frances native A.J. Tucker. Tucker, who just finished his senior year on the St. Scholastica Saints’ hockey team, recently was named to the RBK Men’s Hockey Division III All-American West Region second team. In NCHA games, Tucker led the league with 22 […]
Joey Payeur They were small in number and stature, but there was no shortage of effort or goodwill among the competitors. The Fort Frances edition of the Source for Sports Canadian Hockey Skills Challenge, held Friday evening at the Ice for Kids Arena, drew only six minor hockey players from […]
Mitch Calvert For former Muskie boys’ hockey standout Joe Basaraba, the adjustment period to a higher level of play is officially over. After a slow start offensively with just 15 points in 26 first-half games in his rookie season with the Shattuck-St. Mary’s Sabres’ prep team, Basaraba has caught fire […]
Joey Payeur With this many people involved, anyone within earshot knew there was going to be one big “racket” raised—or at least plenty of smaller ones. The Fort Frances Badminton Club’s invitational tournament held over the weekend at Fort Frances High School, the 11th instalment of an event that began […]
Staff The local Pinewood Blades Bantam girls’ hockey team put the finishing touches on a storybook season by capturing the 10th-annual Stars Cup in Winnipeg over the weekend. The Blades overcame a scrappy Thunder Bay Fury in Sunday’s gold-medal final with a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory. Shae-Lynn Smith fired netted […]
Mitch Calvert Missed it by that much. The Muskie boys’ hockey team returned from the all-Ontarios in North Bay on Saturday without any medals around their necks after finishing the round-robin portion with a 1-2-1 record—good for third place in Pool ‘C’ but one spot shy of advancing to the […]
Mitch Calvert When the Muskie boys’ hockey team finally arrived in North Bay early last week, there was a Northwestern Ontario face on hand to greet them at the Memorial Gardens for their opening practice. John Wilson, convener and host of this year’s all-Ontarios, moved to North Bay at age […]
Mitch Calvert They were supposed to come dressed in red last weekend at the Ice for Kids Arena. But if last night’s Game 5 in Thunder Bay didn’t go the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ way, their fans will be wearing black today to mourn the end of their team’s playoff […]
Mitch Calvert Missed it by that much. The Muskie boys’ hockey team returned from the all-Ontarios in North Bay on Saturday without any medals around their necks after finishing the round-robin portion with a 1-2-1 record—good for third place in Pool ‘C’ but one spot shy of advancing to the […]
