Sports

Mary Beth Tkachuk fought back from a 2-0 deficit Sunday to beat Connee Badiuk in the best-of-five final of the women’s ‘B’ division at the 13th-annual La Place Rendez-Vous squash tournament here.

The Fort Frances OPP Midget ‘A’ team fell 5-1 decision to the North End Flames in the ‘B’ final of a tournament in Dryden over the weekend.

The local trio of Don Smeeth, Annelise Hawrylak, and Geoffrey Smeeth bowled over the competition at the Master/Bantam tournament here Sunday, earning a berth to the provincial showdown March 11-12 in Thunder Bay.

It takes a lot of heart to go out and win a NorWOSSA cheerleading championship.

Trailing 6-0 after just two ends to Dorothy Holmgren, the odds of Lois Tabak winning her first-ever ladies’ curling bonspiel definitely weren’t in her favour.

West End Motors captured the title of a Tom Thumb tournament in Keewatin on Sunday, nipping Skates & Blades 4-3 in a shootout in an all-Fort Frances championship final.

The local Canadian Tire Bantam ‘A’ team lost 4-2 to Red Lake in the ‘B’ semi-finals of a tournament in Dryden on Sunday.

The local KC ‘AA’ PeeWees breezed through the field at a tournament in Sioux Lookout last weekend--often winning in lopsided fashion.

The Emo Atom Selects could not keep pace with visiting Gillons’ (Fort Frances) in recent minor hockey action, coming out on the short end of a 3-1 score.

Despite battling injury and the ’flu in preparation for last weekend’s Minnesota State Powerlifting Championships in Duluth, Dean Patrow combined to lift 1,700 pounds to lead the 48-person field.