Jamie Mountain The Owl senior boys’ volleyball team got off to decent start to the NorWOSSA ‘A’ season by splitting its road matches. After sweeping the Ignace Falcons 3-0 (25-23, 25-22, and 25-17) back on Oct. 1, the Owls (1-1) were dispatched 3-1 (19-25, 25-21, 19-25, and 22-25) by the […]
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Jamie Mountain The streak had to end sometime–even if it came against a league rival. The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team saw their five-game winning streak to start the NorWOSSA season come to a halt with a 26-18 loss to the visiting Dryden Eagles last Tuesday afternoon here. Fort High’s […]
Jamie Mountain Wayne Strachan has liked how his team plays in the final 40 minutes of games. It’s the first 20 that could use some improvement. Continued slow starts were the theme last week as the Fort Frances Lakers dropped a trio of games in which they had to play […]
Jamie Mountain It’s been some tough sledding of late for the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team. After picking up their lone win of the NorWOSSA season back on Sept. 24 against the visiting Sioux Lookout Warriors, the Muskies have now dropped four straight matches to sit with a disappointing 1-5 […]
Jamie Mountain Revenge is a dish best served at home. A day after arriving back to Fort Frances late after dispatching the host Sioux Lookout Warriors 52-13, the Muskies followed that up with a gritty 45-36 win over the Dryden Eagles last Tuesday afternoon at Fort High. The win was […]
Jamie Mountain With the rate it’s going, the only true threat the Muskie cross-country team has is itself. The black-and-gold put in an abundance of great performances at the Hial Pike meet in International Falls last Tuesday and followed that up with another stellar showing at the “Turkey Trot” races […]
Jamie Mountain The Rainy River Owl junior and senior girls’ basketball teams have started the NorWOSSA ‘A’ season on a positive note. The senior squad split its opening games against the host Ignace Falcons and Pelican Falls Timberwolves back on Oct. 1-2. Ignace dumped the Owls (1-1) in the season-opener […]
Staff It was a tough week last week for former Muskies Hailee Barnard and Alex Spuzak and the rest of the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs women’s volleyball team. The Voyageurs lost all three of their matches, to see their record fall to 3-17 and to 1-10 within the Northern […]
Jamie Mountain While the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team has been able to tread the NorWOSSA waters so far, its coach is hoping that it will start playing with more aggression moving forward. Through six games in league play, the Muskies have compiled a respectable 3-3 record but they need […]
Staff Another race led to another excellent showing by the Muskie cross-country team. The black-and-gold represented Fort High well at the annual “Turkey Trot” races in Dryden on Thursday. Trent Wilson wound up first for the fourth race in a row in topping the 49-runner field with a time of […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers played a pair of close games over the weekend but came out on the wrong side of the scoresheet in both. Ryan Green’s goal just under five minutes into the second period proved to be the winner as the expansion Wisconsin Lumberjacks blanked the Lakers […]
Staff The Thief River Falls Norskies rode the strength of three power-play goals to a 6-2 romp over the Fort Frances Lakers on Tuesday night in SIJHL action at the Ralph Engelstad Arena. The loss snapped a two-game winning streak for the Lakers (4-3). New Norskies’ defenceman Connor Kalthoff–playing in […]
