With a pair of new coaches, plenty of young players and a new system, the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team faced plenty of question marks when they took to the court last week for a pre-season tournament. But in the end, the junior spikers came away with a fourth-place finish […]
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Kitchen Creek reported a “significant” increase in the number of golfers using the course this year compared to last–despite the fact many of its greens and fairways suffered extensive ice damage this spring. That, coupled with a cold, wet May, left the course in poor shape, forcing the club to […]
Bill Moody and Plum Byrnes both fired 88s on Sunday to capture the men’s and women’s titles in the 21st-annual Frog Creek Open at Kitchen Creek. Both players took top spot by slim one-stroke margins. Moody won a three-night, four-day trip to Las Vegas for his efforts while Byrnes picked […]
The fourth-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is still more than 10 months away but already it’s attracted two dozen teams more than it can hold. The three-day tournament, which attracted 104 two-person teams this year, has received 149 entries for next July’s event. But only 125 entries will be […]
The 1997 “Bassin’ for Bucks” tournament in Sioux Narrows, with its unique format, was well-planned and staged by organizers, Mel Giesbrecht, Chris Bell, Lindsay Bowman and the rest of the highly-proficient volunteers. Giesbrecht and Bell, well-known on the bass tournament circuit and one-time winners of the Kenora Bass International, while […]
As the Muskie “Bees” head into their home opener tomorrow against the International Falls Broncos junior varsity squad, head coach Bob Fryer is hoping his team takes a change in direction. Coming off a 20-6 loss to the Roseau Rams in their season opener, and a 26-7 defeat to the […]
It was an exciting ending to a two-day tournament Sunday afternoon at Kitchen Creek as Greg Ward and Bob Crowe went to a sudden-death tie-breaker to determine the men’s title at the annual club championship. Tied at 153 strokes after two days of play, the two first played the 10th […]
The Muskies used last Friday’s Homecoming game against the Kenora Broncos to send a distinct message–they will be tough to dethrone as NorWOSSA champs this season. Using a sensational running attack led by Terry LaBelle, the Muskies dominated the younger Broncos all afternoon en route to a lopsided 36-0 victory. […]
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 […]
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 […]
