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 […]
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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 […]
Eight local athletes from the Fort Frances Trampoline Club travelled to Thunder Bay last weekend to compete in the provincial qualifier at the Confederation College Bubble. Kaela Hahkala placed first in the Prov. 1 female trampoline category to earn a gold medal while Leah Nowak placed third for a bronze […]
The Muskie mixed curling team, led by skip Scott Gosman, cruised to a perfect 5-0 record at the NorWOSSA playdowns here earlier this week. But because there is no NWOSSAA competition in the mixed division, the black-and-gold did not advance to the next level. Gosman’s rink, which included Gary Pattison, […]
The local Bantam ‘AA’ B•Macs fell 7-4 to the Morden Reds on Sunday in the consolation final of a tournament in Brandon. The B•Macs had trailed 4-0 after the first period but they fought back to pull within 4-2. But the Reds scored one more in the second to make […]
Causeway Cougars finished in fourth place at an Atom ‘A’ tournament in Grand Rapids, Mn. last weekend, dropping a 4-1 decision to Hermantown in the third-place game Sunday. The Cougars dominated play, especially in the early going, and outshot Hermantown 28-9 but still came out on the short end on […]
The Emo Belles, coached by Lisa Barker and Jim Gill, captured their fourth gold medal this season at a ringette tournament in Dryden last weekend. Stacey Angus, Tea Vahamaki, and Amy Flatt led Emo with two goals apiece as the Belles edged host Dryden 7-5. Brooke Shabatura got the other […]
