Jamie Mountain They may be smaller in numbers but their talent stacks right up there against the best in NorWOSSA competition. The six-member contingent that represented the Muskie Nordic skiing team all put in solid showings at their annual home meet on Friday at the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club […]
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Staff It was a successful weekend for the Muskie boys’ hockey team as the squad came away with the ‘B’-side title at the annual Piper Classic Tournament of Champions in Winnipeg. The Muskies opened Pool ‘D’ play on Friday morning with a 6-5 overtime loss to the Shaftesbury Titans. Jacob […]
Staff The Muskie court sports teams faced some mixed results against the host Dryden Eagles on Thursday afternoon and came away with a split in their NorWOSSA league games. The senior boys’ basketball team improved to a league-best 4-0 with a decisive 61-35 win over the Eagles. Mike Vanderaa led […]
Staff It was a great start to the season for the Muskie Nordic skiing team on Friday here. Members of the black-and-gold put in some solid performances at the Muskie Invitational, which was the NorWOSSA season-opener, and was held at the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club trails on Rocky Inlet. […]
Staff The SIJHL has announced that tonight’s game (Friday, Jan. 10) between the Dryden GM Ice Dogs and Fort Frances Lakers at the Ice For Kids Arena has been postponed. The cause of the postponement is due to a closure on the Trans Canada Highway, following a significant accident. This […]
Jamie Mountain The weekend did not go as the Muskie girls’ hockey team had hoped and members of the black-and-gold will be looking to put a tough experience behind them as they get set to head into the second half of the NorWOSSA season next week. Fort High was close […]
Press Release It will be a landmark edition of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts when the 2021 Canadian Women’s Curling Championship is staged in Thunder Bay, Ont., it was announced yesterday by Curling Canada. The 2021 event, which will be played Feb. 20-28 at the Fort Williams Garden, will be […]
Jamie Mountain To say Cassandra Jackson had a “smashing” good time during her four years with the Minnesota State University Moorhead women’s rugby team would be a massive understatement. The Fort Frances native helped lead the Hummerz to a fourth-place finish nationally in 2018 and followed that up this season […]
Jamie Mountain It may be a new year but it was the same result for Sean Cameron. The Thunder Bay native was spectacular yet again in defending his ‘A’ Open title from last year as he roared to a 3-1 win over Peter Russell of Winnipeg in the final of […]
Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Lakers certainly had their chances but it ended up meaning very little in the end. A slow start and some costly penalties came back to bite the Lakers in a big way as they dropped a 6-3 decision to the visiting Thief River Falls Norskies […]
Staff They tried their best but a berth to the Ontario Winter Games just wasn’t to be for the local Owen Riches and Grace George rinks over the weekend. Riches came away with a 1-2 record while George went 0-2. They both failed to advance from the qualifying round held […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers weren’t quite able to build off the success of opening 2020 with a win last week. After edging the Thief River Falls Norskies 4-3 on Thursday night at the Ralph Engelstad Arena, it was a different story here on Saturday night as the Norskies prevailed […]
