With only four games national junior women’s curling playdowns, Angela Lee’s Stratton rink had their record fall to two and six by press time after losing a squeaker to Suzanne Gaudet’s PEI team this morning. Both teams jumped onto the ice with impressive scores at the beginning of the game, […]
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The Muskie senior boys’ basketball continued their hot play of late, downing the Dryden Eagles by a convincing 71-35 score on the road yesterday afternoon. The black-and-gold dominated the game from the opening tip-off, using their run ‘n’ gun style of offence to wear down the eagle defenders. Leading by […]
Matt McLellan scored twice while Taylor Jorgenson added the other to pace the Times Tigers (Fort Frances) to a narrow 3-2 win over the Rainy River Legion on Sunday afternoon to capture top honours in a novice hockey tournament in Emo. Rainy River opened the scoring in the first on […]
The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team claimed its first Kenora Invitational Tournament title with a thrilling 62-59 victory over the Churchill Bulldogs (Winnipeg) there Saturday. Trailing 31-20 at the half to the much taller Bulldogs, the Muskies starting hitting their shots and taking the ball hard to the basket in […]
As last Friday’s contest between the Muskies and the Dryden Eagles wore on, the question wasn’t if the black-and-gold were going to take over but rather when. Despite being held scoreless in the first period, the Muskies slowly began to dominate the game more and more on every shift. Time […]
Competing in their first-ever cheerleading meet, the Muskie junior squad stole the show at a four-team showdown at Maples Collegiate High School in Winnipeg on Sunday. The Muskies, the only team from outside Manitoba, scored an impressive 326 total points to finish first, well ahead of the second-place team which […]
The Emo Panthers hosted the Fort Frances Lions in PeeWee action last week and skated away with a 6-2 win, netting four goals in the third period to ice the game. Daniel Hettinga tallied four times for the home team while J.J. Landry and Josh Mann added singles. T. Shannon […]
The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team were beaten 2-1 in their best-of-three quarter-final showdown with the Dryden Eagles to get bounced from the St. Pat’s Invitational tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend. Dryden won the first game 15-6 but the Muskies roared back with a 15-10 victory to send the […]
The Muskie hockey team, fresh off an impressive showing at a tournament in Winnipeg last weekend, are now gearing up for a stretch drive they hope will lead to an all-Ontario berth. Sitting atop NorWOSSA with a league-leading 11-2 record, the black-and-gold will face a tough test this Friday when […]
With Minor Hockey Week in full stride at Memorial Arena this week, the local association’s board of directors is enthusiastic that an already stable program here is only going to get better. Thanks, in large part, to the new indoor ice surface which should be under construction next door this […]
After cruising through the round-robin with a perfect 5-0 record and then downing Jeff McDonald (Port Arthur) 7-3 in the semi-finals, Tyler Bell’s Fort Frances rink needed just one more win to earn a berth to the Bantam mixed provincial playdowns in Mississauga. But it wasn’t to be. Instead, it […]
Kathie Jackson had called it the best field she’s seen in her four trips to the Ontario Scott Tournament of Hearts. A seventh-place finish this time around proved her correct. The Fort Frances rink came charging out of the gate with an impressive 3-1 record after the first two days […]
