Life couldn’t be any better for the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team heading into the final game of the regular season today against Kenora. They go into it having already clinched first place and a bye in the NorWOSSA final next week. They also sport a perfect league record–their latest […]
Local Sports
Playing in their first tournament of the season, Mine Centre 1 showed they were in mid-season form as they cruised to the championship title of an eight-team tourney at Robert Moore on Saturday. Mine Centre 1–made up of players in grades seven and eight–put the finishing touches on a solid […]
The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team are looking at today’s final regular-season match against the Kenora Broncos here as a springboard to the playoffs. The team will finish in second-place regardless of today’s outcome, and meet the third-place Dryden Eagles in the NorWOSSA semi-final up there Nov. 12. The winner […]
Gib Tucker has stepped forward to put in his application to coach the local Midget “AA” Canadians hockey team this season, the Times learned yesterday morning. The team, to begin its second season, was left without a coach after Dave Allison resigned to accept a position behind the bench with […]
Facing the Kenora Broncos in the semi-finals of an eight-team senior boys’ tournament there Saturday, the Muskies admitted they were a bit leery heading into the matchup. But once they got onto the floor, any worries quickly evaporated as they blew away their NorWOSSA rivals in two-straight games by scores […]
There were two questions heading into last Friday’s showdown here between the first-place Muskies and the third-place Dryden Eagles. First, could the black-and-gold stop Dryden’s vaunted rushing attack led by star running back Byron McKenzie? And second, could the Eagles stop the Muskies? The answer was yes to the first […]
With the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team uncharacteristically off to a slow start against the host Kenora Broncos last Thursday, head coach Gord McCabe elected to call a time-out. Looking sluggish and uninspired, he felt they needed a break. And it wound up being their most important time-out of the […]
The Muskie junior girls’ basketball finished third at a tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend after dumping Fort William Collegiate 35-16. It was all over practically after the opening tip-off, with the black-and-gold jumping out to a commanding 22-4 halftime lead. Carling Barton and Danielle McGee led the way with […]
Will the real Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team please stand up? Is it the talented squad that can beat you with an array of powerful hits from the power or middle positions, or the one that folds like a cheap tent? Head coach Adrian Chapman, desperately searching for answers with […]
Matthew Smith finished in second place in the boys’ three-km race at the 28th-annual Mid-Canada Legion Elementary School cross-country showdown Saturday at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. Smith, who attends Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton, crossed the finish line in a time of 12:53–just 11 seconds behind […]
The afternoon began with the Muskie senior football team smashing a pumpkin bearing the #20 on the sidelines in reference to stopping Byron McKenzie, the Dryden Eagles’ star running back. It continued with calls of “Stop the pumpkin!” by the Muskie defence before the snap of the ball throughout the […]
In Atom action, the Emo Selects were back on the winning trail after blowing out visiting Causeway (Fort Frances) 14-1. Eric Soucy led the Selects’ attack with four goals while Beis Strachan and Ryan Witherspoon each had hat tricks. Brian Wayash (two), Matt Badiuk, and Nathan Brigham rounded out the […]
