The trainer for the Fort Frances Lakers has been named the first recipient of a new SIJHL’s award.
Jake Witherspoon selected as Trainer/Equipment Manager of the Year.
This was Witherspoon’s first season with the club.
Success for a couple of girls hockey teams from the Fort Frances area during a 3-on-3 tournament in Dryden.
A team called the Lunachicks captured the peewee division.
The Emo Express claimed third place in the atom division after a sixteen round shootout with the Fort Frances Royals.
Avery Visser scored the deciding goal.
Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association handed out its hardware Sunday at its annual awards banquet.
Both team and individual awards were presented.
Blake Bodnar, Noah Avis, Evan Wright, Tristan Yerxa, Klyde Laplante and Aiden Wielinga were MVPs in their respective divisions.
Here is the list of all trophy winners.
Novice
MVP – Drake Bodnar
Most Valuable Defenceman – Ben Latter
Sportsmanship – Brettyn Hannah-White
Most Valuable Goalie – Warren McFayden
Most Sportsmanlike team – Armstrong Crushers
Atom
Most Dedicated – Parker Sisco
Most Improved – Yusuf Etawil
Most Valuable Defenceman – Blaire Cross
Sportsmanlike – Bella Fry
Most Valuable Goalie – Dakoda Wilson
MVP – Noah Avis
League Champions – Gillon’s Sharks
Peewee
Rookie – Nico Ruppenstein
Sportsmanlike – Bryce MacDonald
Most Valuable Goalie – Jarret Aucoin
Most Valuable Defenceman – Eva Gerstner
MVP – Evan Wright
League Champions – Fort Frances Lions
Bantam
Rookie – Grayson Burnell
Most Dedicated – Riley Calder
Most Valuable Defenceman – Chris Williams
Sportsmanlike – Reed MacKinnon
Most Valuable Goalie – Cohen Robinson
MVP – Tristan Yerxa
League Champions – Wu’s Warriors
Atom AA
Arnie Hahkala Perseverance – Aidan Loerzel
Sheldon Mosbeck Most Dedicated – Tarran Enge
Peewee AA
Arnie Hahkala Perseverance – Ashton Veldhuisen
Most Dedicated – Jackson Tucker
MVP – Klyde Laplante
Bantam AA
Arnie Hahkala Perseverance – Koda Radigan
Midget AA
Arnie Hahkala Perseverance – Dawson Allen
MVP – Aiden Wielinga
Trainer Award – Herman Pruys
John Puchalski Memorial – Warren Williams
Rainy River Voyageurs men’s baseball team swept Worthington’s Western Technical College yesterday by scores of 4-1 and 6-2 and to earn a split in their weekend series.
Saturday, the Voyageurs lost 4-2 and 10-2.
The Voyageurs women’s softball team went winless over the weekend during a series of indoor games at the Rochester Dome.
Friday, they lost to Dakota College 5-1 and to Ridgewater 9-8.
Saturday, the Voyageurs were beaten 12-2 by St. Cloud Tech and 14-5 by Rochester.
Joe Basaraba’s season in the UK’s EIHL has come to an end.
The former Fort Frances Muskie notched a goal and an assist for his Fife Flyers Saturday in their 3-3 tie with Nottingham, but a 3-0 loss in their second game yesterday eliminated the Flyers from the playoffs.
Basaraba end the regular season scoring 22 goals and 45 points in 58 games.
Rainy River’s Cole Tymkin had an an assist in London’s 7-nothing whitewash of the Guelph Storm in the second round of the OHL playoffs.
Tymkin now has four points in the three playoff games he’s suited up for.
Ryan Faragher regular season in the ECHL came to end Sunday with a 7-4 in Idaho’s final game Sunday.
Faragher appeared in 20 games, going 8-8 -2.
He and the rest of his teammates prepare for the playoffs which start this coming weekend against the Utah Grizzlies.
