Local Sports for Monday April 26

Late race crashes left Steve Arpin with disappointing finishes in both the Nationwide and ARCA races at Talledega Super Speedway on the weekend.

Yesterday, Arpin finished twenty-sixth in the Nationwide race after being involving in a multi-car crash with less than 10 laps remaining.

In Friday's ARCA race, a last lap spin left the Fort Frances resident in fourteenth.


In College women's softball, Rainy River took two from Mesabi Range Saturday, 8-6 and 6-5.

Friday the Voyageurs beat Fond Du Lac 12-5.



In men's baseball Saturday, Rainy River defeated Hibbing 26-10 in a game that lasted just five innings.

The Voyageurs fell 12-8 in the second of the double header.




Two Fort Frances area hockey players will get the change to earn a berth on a provincial hockey team that will compete in a world event later this year.

Robbie Rae and Donovan Cousineau were one of a handful of players invited from a regional under 17 camp in Thunder Bay on the weekend to Oshawa this June where selection of the Ontario team will be made.

Rae was with the Thunder Bay minor midget Kings program this past winter.

Cousineau was a member of the Fort Frances Muskies.



Fort Frances Lakers board of directors will their first annual general meeting tonight.

The meeting will include a review of the teams first year and board elections.

It takes place at the Memorial Sportplex committee room beginning at 6:30 p.m.