Local Sports for Monday March 19

More hardware for Fort Frances swimmer Donovan Taylor.

Taylor picked up a gold, two silver and a bronze at the Manitoba-Saskatchewan provincial championships on the weekend.

He takes part in Olympic trials next week in Montreal.




Fort Frances Lakers have taken a stranglehold on their SIJHL semi-final series with the Dryden Ice Dogs.

Lakers won 4-2 Saturday to go up to 2-nothing heading into game 3 tomorrow in Dryden.

Meantime, Wisconsin leads Thunder Bay 2-nothing in their series.




Cooper Witherspoon scored the winner as Fort Frances Atom AA Canadians beat the home town Neebing Hawks 3-2 in overtime to win a hockey tournament in Thunder Bay.

Kaleb Bruyere and Nick Hahkala supplied the other goals.




Both Northwestern Ontario bantam and pee-wee all-star teams were defeated by Thunder Bay by identical 5-2 scores in their final games of the branch playdowns,

Fort Frances players Hunter Koles and Cole Tympkin score the goals in the pee-wee game.





Rainy River Voyageurs men's baseball team split a pair of games in St. Cloud, winning 9-8 in a come from behind effort over Northland.

Voyageurs scored 8 runs in the final two innings after trailing 8-1.

The second game saw the Voyageurs drop a 3-2 decision to St. Cloud.




Two anglers, familiar to bass fishing tournaments in Fort Frances and International Falls, are being inducted into the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.

Bemidji's John and Duane Peterson will inducted March 31 as Legendary Anglers.