In the midst of yet another dismal season a year ago, the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team did something they hadn’t done for quite some time–they won a regular-season game. The win snapped a long losing streak that had extended over several seasons, and showed the senior girls’ squad was […]
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The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team will head into the NorWOSSA season with the notion “it’s not where you start but where you finish.” That’s because Rick Wiedenhoeft, who coached the squad to an all-Ontario berth last season, will inherit a team that has definite question marks in some key […]
Canada has made a more conscious effort in recent year to reach its younger figure skaters by offering elite summer camps. And two skaters from the local Border Figure Skating Club, Sarah McComb, 10, and Shane Katona, 14, had such an opportunity last week at the Northern Ontario Section Skaters […]
Playing in her first national tournament, local golfer Carol Livingston admitted to battling a case of nerves at last week’s Canadian senior ladies’ golf championship in Calgary. Those nerves prompted the Kitchen Creek member to open the tournament Tuesday with five straight sixes en route to a first-round score of […]
The International Falls Broncos went into last Friday’s exhibition game against the visiting Muskies with one simple strategy on offence–make the Fort High crew stop their running attack. And for the most part, the black-and-gold defence did a reasonable job stopping the Broncos on the ground. But in the end, […]
The Fort Frances Selects were eliminated from further contention at the Thunder Bay invitational soccer tournament Sunday with a 3-0 loss to Thunder Bay Polonia. Polonia had a steady offensive attack in the quarter-final match-up, scoring a goal in the first half, then adding another early in the second half […]
Although the Muskie ‘B’ football team went winless last year, co-coach Bob Fryer, in his first season at the helm, remains optimistic of the campaign ahead. Fryer, who took over the junior program along with Don Canfield, replaces his son, Ron, who was the team’s head coach last season. The […]
With the top two teams in the Women’s Borderland Soccer Association going head-to-head in last Wednesday’s final, it had all the makings of a spirited, high-tempo matchup. And that’s exactly what happened as Causeway, who finished first during the regular season, hung on for an exciting 3-2 victory over defending […]
Dean Patrow, 41, of Fort Frances defeated U.S. champ John Ford in the Masters under 319-pound division at the Drug Free World Powerlifting Championships on Sunday in Taber, Alta. Patrow finished with a 1,660-pound lift total, based on a 680-pound squat lift, a 395 bench lift, and a 585-pound deadlift. […]
Terry Ogden has been a fixture behind the Muskie hockey team’s bench for the past 18 years, crafting a winning tradition here on the ice that goes unsurpassed on the NorWOSSA circuit. But during last Tuesday’s session of the week-long tryout camp at Memorial Arena, Ogden gave word to assistant […]
With a new head coach, an earlier training camp and an abundance of spots left open by graduating players, there’s no doubt the Muskie hockey team will bolster a new look this season. And with that new look, the black-and-gold are hoping for a sharp turnaround that saw them bounced […]
Quarterback Jon Caul tossed two touchdown passes and scored another on the ground Saturday in Winnipeg–not too shabby considering he only played just over half the game. Caul, who split pivot duties with rookie Gary Wager in the Muskies’ 31-28 exhibition loss to the St. Paul’s Crusaders, completed six of […]
