With the Muskie football team as dominating as it’s been in NorWOSSA play all season, opposing teams had to keep their mistakes to a minimum in order to stay in the game. Time and time again, the black-and-gold would quickly capitalize on a turnover or blocked punt to score a […]
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Ontario’s decision to drop its overnight fishing rule for non-residents will top the agenda at the Northwestern Ontario Tourism Association’s annual fall meeting and banquet Friday in Emo. The afternoon has been set aside to discuss the latest developments in the border waters fishing dispute with Minnesota, including the province’s […]
All season long, Muskie head coach Gord McCabe has told anyone who would listen that his team should be wary of the Kenora Broncos. Sure, the Muskies had beaten them five-straight times, including three during regular-season action, but the games were close for the most part. And, on any given […]
The Muskie hockey team will get a crash course in game conditioning when they open their regular-season schedule next Tuesday in Kenora. With the annual “scrimmage-fest” in Warroad postponed to later in the season, the black-and-gold were left without any exhibition games to play before they set out to defend […]
The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team could taste victory. In fact, they were on the verge of savouring it. Leading the Kenora Broncos 2-0 in their best-of-five showdown here last Wednesday to close out the NorWOSSA regular season (taking the first two games by scores of 25-19 and 25-17), the […]
With several players out of the lineup for various reasons, last Friday’s game here against the Kenora Broncos definitely was gut-check time for the black-and-gold. It was their toughest test of the NorWOSSA campaign so far–and they passed it with flying colours. The Muskies capped off a perfect regular season […]
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 […]
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 […]
