FORT FRANCES—A big fish is emerging from the Fort Frances Aquanauts Swim Team. Twelve-year-old Donovan Taylor turned more than a few heads over the weekend with a series of remarkable performances at the Victor Davis Memorial Cup in Guelph, Ont. His list of accomplishments reads like a veritable laundry list […]
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Hockey players of all ages took home awards from the Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association’s annual banquet last Thursday night upstairs at the Emo/La Vallee Community Centre. The Robert (Bob) Steele Memorial Trophy, acknowledging the most versatile player in the Midget division, was presented to Terry Carmody while the Doug Wilson […]
Vianets completed a near perfect season Monday night with their second-straight Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League title. The top team during the regular season, Vianets (14-1) earned a hard-fought 61-48 win over a very game La Place Rendez-Vous squad (11-4). “Obviously we’re feeling great,” Vianets’ captain Adrian Chapman enthused moments […]
After two months of waiting, the Sunset Country contingent is ready to roll at the Northern Ontario five-pin bowling championships this weekend in Timmins. Six bowlers from Plaza Lanes are set to compete alongside their peers from Dryden and Kenora for the right to represent Northern Ontario at the national […]
The Fort Frances Aquanauts hit a bump in the road at the Northwestern Ontario Open over the weekend in Kenora. After posting a bevy of personal best times at meets all winter, the Aquanauts were forced to endure a weekend in which consistency was difficult to achieve. “There seemed to […]
There is no substitute for experience. The Muskie boys’ hockey team—laden with young players—struggled to a 1-3 record at the all-Ontario ‘AAA’ championship last week in Oshawa. But while he would have preferred a few more checks in the win column, head coach Shane Bliss was pleased with his team’s […]
Sometimes it is just not meant to be. The Muskie boys’ curling team ran into a pair of hot skips at the all-Ontario playdowns last week in Mississauga and failed to advance past the round-robin portion. The rink—comprised of skip David Kaun, third Mike Badiuk, second Sean Murray, lead Travis […]
For Rob Sinclair Jr., the Fort Frances Curling Club’s men’s bonspiel is all about family. The Thunder Bay skip—curling with third Dan Peerenboom, second Dan Greer, and his dad, Rob, as lead—captured their second-consecutive title by beating Paul Fraser’s Fort Frances rink 6-4 in the ‘A’ final Sunday afternoon. And […]
To be the best, you must play against the best. Eight members of the local Sunset Country Squash Club travelled to Concord, Ont. over the weekend to compete against some of the top talent in the province at the Junior Silver tournament. The eight—Anika Alexander, Angel McCormack, Jillian Gustafson, Kimika […]
Mike Scheibler, owner of Tamrack International Motocross Track north of Emo, is hoping for a dry spring so riders can get out on the track sooner. “Weather and ground conditions permitting . . . I’d like to get going by the end of April,” said Scheibler, adding he’s scheduled eight […]
The Fort Frances Badminton Club held its annual tournament over the weekend at Fort High. The field of 115 participants from across Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba, and upper Minnesota was the largest in tournament history, representing an increase of 15 people from a year ago. “Everything went great,” said organizer Manami […]
It was an all-Fort Frances final in the girls’ A-2 Bantam division of the Stars Cup tournament in Winnipeg over the weekend, with Kitowski Trucking prevailing 4-1 over the Pinewood Blades. Kitowski Trucking jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead on goals by Carly Bosma (two) and linemate Jessica Rea. […]
