It’s rather rare in football to have a game decided on just the second play from scrimmage but that’s exactly what happened here Friday afternoon. Muskie running back Terry LaBelle sprang a 50-yard touchdown run just 1:33 into the game to give the black-and-gold a 7-0 lead over the visiting […]
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Friday was Homecoming but it wasn’t the most pleasant one for former Muskie star Brett Watt. Watt, who quarterbacked the black-and-gold to an NWOSSAA title during his high school career here, returned to Westfort field last week as the first-year head coach of the Sturgeon Creek Schooners of Winnipeg. He […]
While the Aquanauts are hoping for even better results in the pool this season, what is already known is that the local swim club definitely will be bigger. Some 120 swimmers have registered for the various programs, a sharp increase from 80 a year ago. And that has many people […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club is looking to draw new members into the house as it gets set to hold registration for the 1998-99 season this Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. New president Bill Gushulak said the club is looking to attract more curlers by offering a special flat […]
As the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team prepare to do battle against a new slate of opponents this year, its only concern is to get better by season’s end. After winning a pair of regular-season games last season, the team made great strides. But this time around, co-coach Gord McCabe […]
In the fall, bass tend to move into the backwaters and chase baitfish. If you find shad all the way back in the backwater area, this is a prime area to start looking for fall bass as they start their “feeding frenzy” to fatten up for the upcoming winter months. […]
While the Muskies are having success on the gridiron again this season, the team has struggled to find opponents to play exhibition games against in recent weeks. With Dryden and Kenora dropping their NorWOSSA football programs this season due to the troubled contract talks between the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board […]
Some of the finest walleye fishing of the year takes place during the fall. The trick is to find the best action, and to match your presentation to the mood of the fish. Fall walleye fishing can be extremely unpredictable but most sources will say that usually the poorest weather […]
Joe Pritchett and Hiram Archibald of Sioux Narrows teamed up to capture top honours–and the $2,500 first prize–at this year’s “Bassin’ for Bucks” tournament there last weekend. Their three-day total of 45.64 pounds was less than a pound better than the 44.86-pound haul by the Thunder Bay team of Glenn […]
The Muskies went into last Friday’s contest against the Oak Park Raiders prepared to take on one of the top teams in Manitoba. And they literally ran away with a convincing 22-14 victory over a talented Oak Park team that had outscored its league opponents by a 103-6 margin in […]
After looking as though the new “AA” Midget rep team would not hit the ice here, it was saved in a last-minute move at Monday night’s meeting of the local minor hockey association board. Without a coach, the Midget program looked to be a distant memory before it even got […]
Due to the uncertainty of high school sports in the Keewatin-Patricia board this year, NorWOSSA has been forced to create a modified schedule that will combine “A” and “AA” programs for the first time. The Muskies will join Atikokan, Rainy River, Whitefish Bay, Pelican Falls, and Thomas Aquinas (Kenora) in […]
