Joey Payeur With the new Winnipeg High School Football League season fast approaching, the Muskie football team began preparing for its Currie Division (‘A’) schedule which kicks off Sept. 8 against the host Maples Marauders. Running back Sekina Scheibler, above, was polishing his cut-back skills as he looks to carry […]
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Joey Payeur Tanis Tom of the Tigers whipped this throw from second base over to Candy Teeple at first to try and get Marissa Kerry in the first inning.
Joey Payeur It wasn’t the three yards and a cloud of dust of football lore but actually 60 feet that Ryder Woolsey of the Barwick Blue Knights covered in stealing second to kick up this dirt storm in beating the throw to Dawson Tigers’ shortstop Austin Jack in the second […]
Dawson Tigers’ catcher Meghan Bourgeois and the ball were waiting for the arrival of Fort Frances Her-icanes’ runner Caylee Woolsey, who was tagged out at home in the fourth inning of the championship final of the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League last Wednesday at VanJura here. But the ‘Canes […]
Joey Payeur Having players move to a community without having anywhere for them to live is far from ideal. It also doesn’t send the message Fort Frances Lakers’ executives were hoping to get from the community. The pressure is on for local residents to step up to be billets for […]
Falls JournalInternationalWhitney JacksonEmily Gedde and Three hours before having to check in at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Scott Dingwall and Jeff Gustafson stopped fishing because they figured they had enough fish to win the 2017 International Falls Bass Championship. And they did. The team from Keewatin, Ont. and Kenora, Ont. […]
Staff The ball sailed through the fading remnants of daylight and over the left-field fence, taking with it the last hopes of the Dawson Tigers. Brett Mann’s three-run homer in the top of the seventh was the final nail in the coffin for the Tigers, who went from regular-season kingpins […]
Joey Payeur Come next spring, Marissa Kerry gladly will take advice from Shelby Nosan about mastering the mound. Last Wednesday, though, it was the new coach getting one-upped by her future player. In an all-Minnesota matchup on the rubber, International Falls resident Kerry got the better of Baudette’s Nosan as […]
Joey Payeur For the last three years, the Fort Frances Lakers have entered training camp as the hunted. Now they are the hunter gunning for those who would aim to block their return to the head of the SIJHL class. The Lakers went from three-time defending league champs to fifth-place […]
Staff It just kept raining but they just kept pushing on, choosing to laugh at the conditions than languish in them. The International Boundary Waters Dragon Boat Club battled through torrential downpours at times to capture a hard-fought silver medal in the Competitive Final at the Lake Superior Dragon Boat […]
Staff It looked for much of the day as though it would be a repeat of last year. As it turned out, it was–but for two division winners, not the weather gods. The Borderland Racing Association managed to avoid losing its regular-season finale at the Emo Speedway for the second-straight […]
Staff Three holdovers, two former members of the Kings, and a masked Muskie who is moving on. That summarizes the six Rainy River District players who made the roster of the Kenora Thistles for the coming season in the Manitoba Midget ‘AAA’ Hockey League. The returning veterans with local connections […]
