Press Release The Source for Sports Canadian Hockey Skills Challenge is taking place in more than 60 markets across Canada this year, which gives youngsters from towns and cities large and small the opportunity to compete against one another for more than $20,000 in prizes. Fort Frances’ competition, presented by […]
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Staff The Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ hockey team has yet to lose to the Dryden Renegades so far this season, although Saturday’s 4-2 result was the closest the Renegades have come. The Canadians got two goals from Jeff Cridland, and one each from Jeff Gustafson and Tyson McLean, to […]
Press Release The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres and M&M Meat Shops have teamed up for a special promotion this Saturday (Feb. 28) from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at the local store. It’s a great opportunity to meet your Sabres’ players (they’ll be in three different groups of seven throughout the afternoon). […]
Press Release Gord Pyzer was inducted into the Canadian Angler Hall of Fame on Feb. 12 at a special inaugural ceremony held at the Spring Fishing and Boat Show in Toronto. Pyzer, who has fished the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship and has been a strong supporter of the annual […]
Staff It was a successful host tournament for the newly-minted NorFab Flames PeeWee girls’ rep team over the weekend. The Flames, enjoying success in their inaugural season, finished the round-robin portion of their tournament on Saturday in first place, but were upset by Dryden 4-3 in the final Sunday afternoon. […]
Staff The Muskie football team handed out its annual awards at the Little Beaver Snow Park lodge last Wednesday. The following award winners were voted on by their fellow teammates: •Paul Renaud Award (team MVP)—Matt DePiero; •Reece Scofield Award for Outstanding Contribution—Matt Mutz and Josh Stevens; •Marc DeGagne Award (Defensive […]
Staff The local Taggs Source for Sports Bantam ‘AA’ hockey team competed in its eighth and final tournament of the season last weekend in Brandon, Man., coming home with silver after compiling a 4-1 record. Taggs opened play against a very talented Interlake Lightning team, and surprised the Lightning in […]
Mitch Calvert The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres already are in playoff mode with two weeks left in the SIJHL regular season. The Sabres (26-15-3) tested their mettle with a pair of road wins this past week over the second-place Thunder Bay Bearcats and cellar-dwelling Sioux Lookout Flyers, and now return […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie girls’ volleyball teams showed spurts, but couldn’t put it all together in losing to the Dryden Eagles in their respective NorWOSSA finals here Friday. The seniors fell in straight sets by scores of 25-19, 25-11, and 25-19. “Before the game, I told the girls to give […]
Mitch Calvert Next stop: North Bay. Okay, that may be a tad premature, but it’s hard not to predict a trip to the all-Ontarios for this year’s Muskie boys’ hockey team on the eve of their best-of-three opening-round playoff showdown with the Kenora Broncos that begins tomorrow (Feb. 26) at […]
Mitch Calvert Junior team also wins gold That collective sigh of relief you heard Friday night likely came from the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team. The heavy favourites nearly were dealt a knockout punch in the game that mattered most—just sneaking past the Kenora Broncos 56-46 in the NorWOSSA final […]
Mitch Calvert The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres seemingly scored at will in a 9-3 pounding of the Sioux Lookout Flyers on Saturday night in front of 298 paying customers at the Sioux Lookout Memorial Arena. Graham Dyck tallied a hat trick to go with an assist while linemate Colin Moberly […]
