Local Sports For Wednesday Feburary 26

Fort Frances Lakers have clinched their first ever SIJHL regular season title.

Lucas Debenedet's power play goal with 8-minutes remaining proved to be the game winner as the Lakers edged the Wisconsin Wilderness 3-2.

Aaron Wesley-Chisel and Mason Meyer had the other Laker goals.

It's the first regular season title for a Fort Frances based team since the Borderland Thunder finished first overall in 2003.

Meantime, the Lakers are back on the ice for the start of a home-and-home series with the English River Miners.

The Lakers are in Ear Falls tonight before returning to the Fort for the rematch Friday night.




International Falls Broncos girls basketball team dropped a 68-63 game to Ely.

Maddy Filipiak and Teagan Anderson each scored 18 points in a losing cause.



International Falls Broncos boys basketball team begins play in the Section 7AA championship with a game against Mesabi East.

Winner takes on Proctor on Saturday.



Fort Frances girls hockey team will play Dryden for the NorWossa title.

The Eagles advanced with a 4-2 win Red Lake.

No word yet on when the series will begin.



No medals for Atikokan High School skiers at the first day all-Ontario Cross-Country Ski Championships in Timmins.

Reisha Vos was 93rd in the junior girls 4 k event.

Grant Legaree was 78th in the junior boys 5-K.

Kiara Gannon was 56th in the senior girls 5-K.

Bailey Morden and Joe Anthony were well back of the field in the senior boys race.



The schedule for the NorWossa girls high school hockey final has been released.

The Best-of-3 series will start Saturday night at 7:15 p.m. in Fort Frances with the hometown Muskies taking on the Dryden Eagles.

Game two will be played in Dryden on Sunday.

If necessary, the series will return to the Fort Frances next Tuesday night at 7:15 p.m.



Play in the Borderland Women's indoor soccer tonight sees the Boston Pizza Ball Blasters facing the Wright Physiotherapy Rockettes

The Cater 2 U Queens is up against the league-leading Main Street Mayhem.