Due to the vast distance teams in NorWOSSA must travel for their games, students on the various Muskie squads miss a significant amount of class time during the year. Reducing the time high school athletes spend out of the classroom was one of the main topics up for discussion at […]
Local Sports
With Rainy Lake having its earliest “ice out” on record last week, local boating stores are enjoying record sales while fly-in fishing services and resorts are well ahead of schedule. In fact, all signs are pointing towards a promising summer ahead. “The fact that we’ve had a poor snowmobiling winter, […]
Dean Patrow of Fort Frances lifted his way to three national records at the recent Canadian Drug-Free Powerlifting Championships in Taber, Alta. Patrow, 42, smashed Canadian records by squatting 672 pounds and bench pressing 407 pounds. He also deadlifted 590 pounds. The combined total of 1,669 also was a Canadian […]
The local Northwest Tae Kwon Do club performed well at the Cy ’98 Can-Am Games in Winnipeg last Saturday, bringing home six medals. Thirteen members from here attended the tournament, competing against 390 fighters from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Minnesota. Jordan Nastiuk (black stripe) and Mathew Ivall (green belt) led […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club held its annual dinner and awards presentation last Saturday, culminating a successful season which saw local curlers advance all the way to the provincial level Coach of the year awards went to Rob Roy Donaldson for leading the Muskie boys’ team of Bill Crewson, Chris […]
The Muskie Blueline Club is looking to add more Friday night games to the schedule next season to bolster sagging attendance. Last season, the local high school team played most of its home games on Tuesday nights, traditionally a poor drawing date. Fort High athletic director Bob Grynol said he […]
Adrian Bondett, a first-year badminton player with the local club, won the consolation side in the under-14 division at the Manitoba Junior Open in Winnipeg last weekend. Bondett, 13, was swept 15-6 and 15-14 in his first best-of-three match before winning his next three by scores of 15-6/15-9, 15-9/17-14, and […]
Ten Aquanauts had the chance to compete at the Kenora Swimming Sharks’ Northwestern Ontario regional development meet last Saturday. Alice Bolen, Jessica Cousineau, Jennifer Green, Jennifer Hawley, Alyssa Holliday, Jamie Holliday, Michelle McFayden, Miranda Richert, Steven Boileau, and Alex Parent took part in the one-day event. For many of the […]
The first-ever “Fishing Expo,” being hosted by members of the Little Eagles and Little Thunderbird youth programs Saturday at the United Native Friendship Centre here, is hoping to catch the big one by adding a new prize package. The lucky winner of a $1 raffle, open to kids aged six […]
After breezing though the competition the last two seasons, only to suffer upsetting losses to Kenora in the NorWOSSA semi-finals each time, Muskie girls’ soccer coach Struchan Gilson decided some changes were in order. While he would be the first to admit his team definitely was the better one, they […]
Heading into this season, the Muskie boys’ soccer team is full of question marks regarding what type of system they will use and which players will play where. But what returning head coach Keith Gilbert and his assistants, Jason Kabel and newcomer Ben Andrusco, do know is this year’s team […]
With a mild winter and an earlier-than-usual spring, the Kitchen Creek Golf Course is slated to open for the season Saturday at 10 a.m. (weather permitting). “The greens are in fabulous shape,” club pro Gord Workum enthused this morning. “The fairways have some low or soft spots that we would […]
