Staff Both the Muskie senior and junior boys’ volleyball team competed at tournaments over the weekend, with both coming away with respectable showings. The seniors put in a solid performance and wound up with a 2-3 record at the St. Patrick Volleyball Festival held in Thunder Bay on Friday and […]
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Staff On a sloppy day it was the Muskie football team that managed to smooth out its own game. The Muskies scored most of their points in the third quarter en route to a 20-0 win over the Neelin Spartans on Thursday in Winnipeg High School Football League action at […]
Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Lakers are having a solid start to the SIJHL regular season but it remained to be seen how they would stack up against the defending champs. Turns out just fine, thank you very much. Fort Frances erased a 3-0 first-period deficit to pull out an […]
Staff The Muskie court sport teams travelled to Kenora yesterday, where they came away with three wins. In girls’ basketball action, both the juniors and seniors improved their records to 6-1 with wins over the host Broncos. Led by Tatum Glowasky’s team-high 11 points, the juniors dumped the Broncos (1-5) […]
Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Lakers were behind the eight-ball early once again on Tuesday night. But instead of feeling sorry for themselves, they battled and clawed their way to a 4-3 comeback win over the Red Lake Miners at the Ice For Kids Arena. Nick Swain walked the Miners’ […]
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 […]
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 […]
