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 […]
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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 […]
They say the best offence is a good defence, and that’s propelled the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team to a perfect 5-0 record in NorWOSSA action so far this season. The squad’s latest win was a convincing 47-17 shellacking over Dryden here yesterday afternoon. Their new trap press bottled up […]
With the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team showing a strong ability to handle the more simplistic defensive systems in the early going of the season, head coach Gord McCabe decided to make a change. He elected to go with a new 1-2-2 zone press–much more complicated than most junior teams […]
Fresh off a solid second-place finish at a tournament in Atikokan over the weekend, the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team continued its winning ways yesterday afternoon with a victory over the Dryden Eagles in NorWOSSA action here. The Muskies had little trouble beating the Eagles, decimated by the loss of […]
If you take a new rink that just began practising together a week before an event and put it up against some of the top curlers in Canada and the U.S., you shouldn’t expect the best of results. And there weren’t any this past weekend for the Raymond Roy foursome […]
There were a lot of happy hunters in the area as moose and deer season opened earlier this month–which didn’t surprise the local Ministry of Natural Resources. “It seemed to be hot and cold,” Dave Saunders, MNR’s acting enforcement supervisor, said Friday morning. “It depended on where you were but […]
Coaches often say the way a football team practices during the week before a game is often an indication of how well they will play. Bad practices. Bad games. The Muskies had a bad week of practice. They also went out and played a very bad football game last Friday […]
