The Fort Frances Lakers have widened their first-place lead in the Superior International Junior Hockey League.
The Lakers won both of their games over the weekend against the Red Lake Miner, while the Dryden GM Ice Dogs lost both of theirs to the Thunder Bay North Stars.
Fort Frances won the Saturday night game 5-1 after a 6-0 shut out Friday night.
The Lakers now have 66 points, five points better than the Ice Dogs, with two games in hand.
Dryden lost 5-4 to the North Stars Saturday night and 4-3 Friday.
The other games saw the Kam River Fighting Walleye top the Ironwood Lumberjacks 4-2 Saturday and 6-2 on Friday night.
Kam River sits in third place in the standings with 58 points, but have four games in hand on the Ice Dogs and two games on the Lakers.
Three Fort Frances Muskies winter court sport teams have won NorWOSSA gold after the finals on Friday in Sioux Lookout.
The Muskies senior girls’ volleyball team defeated the Sioux North Warriors in three straight sets to win gold.
The Fort Frances junior girls’ volleyball team downed the Dryden Eagles also in three games to take the gold medal.
In junior boys’ basketball, the Muskies got by the Beaver Brae Broncos 56-35 to claim gold.
The Sioux North Warriors boys’ basketball team was the only team, outside of the Muskies, to win NorWOSSA gold.
The Warriors downed the Dryden Eagles 52-44 in the final.
