Press Release Join a Voyageurs National Park naturalist for the second-annual “Women in Winter” program this Sunday (Dec. 7). Learn about the history of snowshoes and the purpose of different styles. Afterwards, if snow conditions permit, snowshoe two miles on the Oberholtzer Trail (snowshoes will be provided). The program starts […]
Local Sports
Staff The Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team opened action with a home tournament over the weekend. The team was split into two squads and fared well during round-robin play, but both teams were eliminated in the quarter-finals. Team “Black” took first place in their pool with two wins and a […]
Staff Dominos beat Taggs Source for Sports 76-59 in the only men’s basketball league game Monday night at Fort High (the Muskies were across in the Falls for a scrimmage). John Sivonen led the Dominos’ attack with 27 points while Morgan Anderson replied with 23 for Taggs.
Staff Nineteen teams competed in the “Family Twosome” roll-offs at Plaza Lanes on Sunday. Each team consisted of a child with either their parent or guardian. Kora Lee Cook and Julie Good took top honours in the Bowlasaurus division. In the PeeWees, Mya McKenny and Bobbi-Jo McKenny took the honours […]
Staff Interested in a little 3-on-3 hockey? Emo is set to host its inaugural 3-on-3 tournament Dec. 27-28 at the Atom, PeeWee, and Bantam levels, and is looking for interested teams to register prior to the Dec. 15 deadline. “We’re just kind of putting registration out there, but we’re hoping […]
Staff A pair of local junior curlers have advanced to their respective provincial playdowns next month. Jenna Enge of Devlin, a member of Sarah Lang’s rink out of the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay, went a perfect 4-0 at the Junior Inter-Regionals 1&2 playdowns in Kakabeka Falls over […]
Staff All three Fort Frances Bantam ‘B’ squads had strong showings at the Pizza Hut/Grand Portage Lodge and Casino 20th-annual Bantam ‘B’ tournament over weekend in Thunder Bay. Canadian Tire won gold with an 8-6 win over the Holmlund Leafs in the all-Fort Frances final. Fort Frances’ other team in […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie boys’ hockey team played two tight games in Spring Lake Park, Mn. last week. The black-and-gold opened the four-team tournament with a hard-fought 6-5 loss in overtime to the hosts on Friday. They had battled back to tie the game when veteran Kyle Herr scored three […]
Mitch Calvert Close, but no cigar. That’s been the unfortunate theme of the Muskie girls’ hockey season to date as they suffered a second-consecutive loss in a tournament final. The black-and-gold fell 2-1 to the Kelvin Clippers (Winnipeg) in the final of the seventh-annual Northern Shield Girls’ High School Hockey […]
Staff As Maxwell Smart would say, the Fort Frances Canadians missed it by that much. After a flawless record during the round-robin, the Midget ‘AA’ Canadians couldn’t string together a fourth-straight win in falling 3-2 to Wayzata in Sunday’s final of the second-annual Gus Lindberg Memorial tournament here. Both teams […]
Staff The local Taggs Source for Sports Bantam ‘AA’ hockey team came home with a tournament title for the third-straight weekend. The squad completed the hat trick with a 5-3 win over the River East Marauders (Winnipeg) in the final of the 20th-annual Pizza Hut/Grand Portage Lodge and Casino Bantam […]
Mitch Calvert The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres made the most of their final home date until Dec. 20, earning a 5-0 win over the Sioux Lookout Flyers on Saturday night. Brendan Baumgartner notched two goals, giving him 17 on the season, while new goalie Kyle Ruhl turned aside 10 shots […]
