Emo Predators challenged Emo Cowboys in Bantam action recently and came out on the short end of a 3-1 score. Matt Meyers started the ball rolling for the Cowboys midway through the first but David Pollard replied for the Predators just two minutes later. The Cowboys took over the second […]
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The local Sunset Country “AA” Ford Atom Mustangs dumped St. Paul, M. 8-1 on Sunday to capture the championship of a four-team tournament in Duluth. Cody Dittaro scored twice to give the Mustangs a 2-1 lead after two periods. Then the floodgates opened in the third as David Pierce scored […]
Doug Kitowski Trucking of here lost 5-0 to Marquette, Mich. in the consolation final of the Twin Ports Senior Women’s Invitational hockey tournament in Duluth on Sunday. The Fort Frances squad reached the consolation final with a 4-1 win over Buffalo, Mn. on Saturday. Barb Galusha led the way with […]
The Fort Frances Canadians, a ‘AA’ Midget team comprised mainly of 16 and 17-year-olds, have been very respectable in their first season under former pro player and NHL coach Dave Allison. The brainchild of Tom Koski, the new Midget ‘AA’ team has compiled an impressive 18-9 record so far this […]
The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team had been on fire all season, playing a brand of wide-open, exciting basketball that produced more than its fair share of wins. But when the black-and-gold needed a win the most, in the NorWOSSA final last Friday against the Kenora Broncos up there, the […]
The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team had the Kenora Broncos on the ropes in the NorWOSSA final there last Friday but they couldn’t deliver the knockout blow. After winning the first two games of the best-of-five match 15-8 and 15-13, passing well, setting near perfection, and hitting the ball with […]
John Lundon beat out 24 other riders to take the checkered flag in the 500 cc division of a snowcross race in Grand Rapids, Mn. last weekend. Lundon, 19, of here raced to four first-place finishes, a third, and a fifth on Saturday to qualify for Sunday’s semi-final, where he […]
It was oh so close. Trailing 38-35 in the NorWOSSA semi-final against the Dryden Eagles last Friday in Kenora, the Muskies elected to put the ball in the hands of their hottest shooter, Facial Cheblaoui, to try a game-tying three-pointer. And why not? He had made a long-range shot with […]
Although a provincial women’s curling championship has eluded Kathie Jackson so far in her competitive curling career, she finally captured a title that also had slipped through her grasp until now. The annual Fort Frances ladies’ bonspiel. Jackson breezed through the competition in the 46th-annual affair last week, capping it […]
It wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was ugly at times. But who says you have to play pretty to win, and the Muskies played well enough in spurts to sweep the Red Lake Rams 2-0 in their best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-final series last weekend. They now move on to the best-of-three […]
In a season where the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball team dominated, it was hardly surprising when they won yet another league crown last Friday in Kenora with a convincing 15-5/15-10 win over the Dryden Eagles in the best-of-three NorWOSSA final. It was the junior Muskies’ fourth-straight championship, and seventh in […]
Several club records were shattered, and a slew of personal bests recorded, by members of the Fort Frances Aquanauts at the Northwest regional team championships here last weekend. Among the senior Aquanauts, Jeff Plumridge and Steven Gushulak led the way. Plumridge, 16, set some club records and recorded personal bests […]
