The young members of the Fort Frances Aquanauts Swim Team sat in rapt attention Friday evening as their coach, Roman Ramirez, adressed them at their annual banquet. He spoke about people in their lives who had inspired them. People who had enriched their lives. People who had pushed them to […]
Local Sports
Nine-year-old Donovan Taylor of Fort Frances just finished a stellar swimming season, earning national rankings in several events. Taylor is ranked fourth in Canada in the boys’ nine and under 50m backstroke and seventh in the 100m backstroke in a long-course pool. It’s no wonder backstroke is his favourite, though […]
The committee spearheading the OFSAA boys’ hockey tournament here in 2006 will nail down major issues before taking a break for the summer and then getting serious plans underway in the fall. The committee, which won the bid to have Fort Frances host the all-Ontarios back in April, tentatively will […]
Given a choice, would you rather spend a sunny Friday afternoon at work or playing golf? Well, considering it was all for a good cause anyway, 14 teams of four decided to play hooky last Friday to play in the eighth-annual Confederation College Scholarship Golf Tournament out at Kitchen Creek. […]
It was a successful season for the Muskies girls’ soccer team—a NorWOSSA championship, an NWOSSAA silver medal, and a trip to the all-Ontarios. “Overall, we’re happy,” said head coach Struchan Gilson, who will retire this year after 19 years of coaching the team. “We’re getting closer.” The black-and-gold successfully competed […]
Both St. Ignatius soccer teams took home gold medals from the all-Ontario championships Saturday. The fourth-seeded Lady Falcons, whose silver medal at last year’s OFSAA allowed the Muskies to attend the all-Ontarios this year, edged St. Thomas 2-1 in the final game in Sudbury. Meanwhile, the boys’ team, who were […]
The Muskie girls’ soccer team failed to advance to the quarter-finals at the all-Ontarios in Sudbury after tying 14th-seeded Timmins High and Vocational School 1-1 in their final round-robin game this morning. Hillary Morgan scored for the black-and-gold. Fort High—seeded 11th—finished in third place in Pool ‘C’ with two points […]
The Muskies lost 6-0 to third-ranked St. Mary’s (Woodstock) this morning in their first game at the OFSAA girls’ ‘A’/‘AA’ soccer championship. The Muskies—ranked 11th—were to play again this afternoon at 3 p.m. (EST) against Jean Vanier Catholic High School, who beat Timmins High and Vocational School 5-0 this morning. […]
Three local women and Kitchen Creek club pro Steve Wood teed off in Winnipeg last week for the Manitoba PGA Pro Lady Tournament and despite the chilly weather, they managed to have a great time—and place in the top eight. “The conditions were tough, it was windy and cool,” noted […]
Aquanaut Donovan Cousineau earned the high points trophy for the male 10 and under category at the Thunder Bay Thunderbolts International Invitational last weekend with three first-place finishes, one second, four thirds, and one seventh. He also improved his time in the 200m I.M. by 21.91 seconds. Cousineau, whose gold […]
After a cancellations due to weather, the Fort Frances Little League is finally, slowly, getting underway. And team organizers Dave Sande here and Ken Wilson in Barwick look forward to seeing what the future will bring to the sport they love. “Baseball is making some pretty good strides here,” said […]
Heather Dutton last week earned her third trip to the all-Ontarios this season—two days after being named Fort High’s female athlete of the year. Dutton, one of seven members on the high school track club to run at the NWOSSAA event in Thunder Bay, won gold in the senior girls’ […]
