After looking sluggish in a 17-15 loss to the Atikokan Voyageurs to open their best-of-five match here yesterday afternoon, the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team suddenly woke up in the second game–and then almost blew it. Tied at 4-4, the black-and-gold went on a seven-point run thanks to the strong […]
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Faced without a league to play in this season, the Muskie football team was forced to play a series of exhibition games against Manitoba squads. And the black-and-gold dominated them, posting an 4-0 record while outscoring their opponents by an incredible 172-35 margin. Their latest victim was the St. James […]
The Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association is preparing to host a pair of clinics for coaches and trainers next month. A Level I and II coaches’ clinic is slated Nov. 13 and 15. The first day will consist of four-five hours of instruction, with eight hours of classroom time planned […]
Kitchen Creek also saw another record broken this season–aces. Eight different golfers recorded holes-in-one at the local course, including six on the par-three seventh. The other two aces came at #11 and #13 (also par-threes). “As far as I know, it’s a club record,” local pro Gord Workum said yesterday. […]
Taking advantage of an early spring and a surge in popularity in the sport, the Kitchen Creek Golf Course saw a record number of rounds played there this season. Roughly 34,000 rounds have been played so far, club pro Gord Workum said Monday morning. “That’s a big-time jump,” he enthused. […]
As Crossroads cross-country coach Paul Murray prepared to take his group of runners to a meet in Thunder Bay last weekend for the first time, he admitted he wasn’t quite sure how they would stack up. Murray knew he was taking a strong contingent of 20 runners (10 boys and […]
The opening of firearm season in most areas corresponds to the mating cycle of the whitetail deer. This mating period is commonly referred to as the “rut.” At this time of year, the bucks are the most active. They do a lot of travelling in search of the receptive does. […]
The Muskie court teams will continue to play a modified league schedule against ‘A’ squads until the playoffs, when they’ll face either Dryden or Kenora for the NorWOSSA crown. “The decision was to keep the league the way it is, and have a ‘south’ and a ‘north’ division,” Fort High […]
As former Muskie coach Scott Fawcett made his second trip in to Winnipeg in as many years with the Edmonton Eskimos against the woeful Blue Bombers over the Thanksgiving weekend, he would be the first to admit what a difference a year makes. The Eskimos took advantage of a Winnipeg […]
While the Muskies routinely have cheered their way to NorWOSSA titles in the past, and placed well at several competitions in Winnipeg and Thunder Bay, this year’s program decided to expand to include a junior squad of seventh and eighth graders. Under the direction of Melissa Hagen, a former all-American, […]
With three weeks between games, the Muskies could have been excused if they came out a little rusty in their exhibition game Saturday against Crocus Plains (Brandon). But whatever rust had accumulated on their uniforms during that layoff was quickly shaken off as the Muskies steamrolled to a convincing 63-0 […]
The Fort Frances Judo Club is back on the mat for another season. With 47 judokas registered, and another 30 on the waiting list, the local club is having success in both numbers and the quality of athletes it is producing at the competitive level. Head instructor Delbert Deschamps, who […]
