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 […]
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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 […]
As the Mine Centre Thunderbirds girls’ volleyball team prepared to head off to the Eastern Ontario Bantam championships in Ottawa last weekend, head coach Brian Love knew his players would have to elevate their level of play against the bigger, more talented schools. And the Thunderbirds did just that–reaching the […]
Local squash player Ben Andrusco captured the men’s ‘D’ event at the 1999 Carpet Max Manitoba Open Squash Classic in Winnipeg, sweeping Scott McDonald (Winnipeg) 3-0 in the final. Andrusco reached the final after edging Andrew Town, considered the top under-12 junior player in Winnipeg by a 3-2 count. He […]
The local Sunset Ford Mustangs “AA” Atom hockey team dropped a 5-1 decision to Roseau on Sunday in the ‘B’ final of a six-team tournament in Baudette. The loss, despite some outstanding goaltending from Wade Friesen, relegated the Mustangs to a fourth-place finish. Mike Spencer, assisted by Jared Catholique-Bruyere and […]
The Emo Belle Bandits took gold for the third time after winning a tournament on home ice last weekend. Atikokan came second, followed by Dryden in third place and Rainy River fourth. Unfortunately, the Emo Tween Bandits could only muster a fourth-place showing in their division, which was won by […]
