Staff The best and brightest that the local fastball leagues had to offer this season were celebrated over the weekend at separate awards banquets. The Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League held their awards night on Friday night at the Back Alley Bar in Emo, where Renegades’ pitcher Karma Andy […]
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Staff For the second year in a row, Jason Cain and Dan Tucker took home the title at the annual Rainy Lake Fall Bass Classic held Saturday at La Belle’s Birch Point Camp on Northwest Bay. The Fort Frances natives reeled in a three-fish total of 13.42 pounds, which also […]
Jamie Mountain Volleyball at the junior level is constantly a game of learning and adapting and the Muskie boys’ squad is learning what it is going to take to be successful this season. The Muskies had a busy week last week, splitting a pair of games against the Sioux Lookout […]
Jamie Mountain Records are meant to be broken and a few of them fell in the Muskie football team’s rout of the Churchill Bulldogs here on Friday afternoon. Muskie quarterback Brady Meeks was outstanding, setting new single game Currie Division (‘A’) records in both passing yards and touchdowns thrown in […]
Jamie Mountain A great start to the NorWOSSA season has the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team soaring high. The Muskies won both of their games last week as they improved to a league best 3-0. Fort High rolled to a 53-33 romp over the Sioux Lookout Warriors in their home-opener […]
Staff A historic day on offence led to a second straight win for the Muskie football team on Friday. The Muskies scored on their first three possessions of the game en route to thumping the Churchill Bulldogs 66-19 in their Winnipeg High School Football League home-opener at Fort High. Muskie […]
Staff They say there’s no rest for the weary and the Muskie court sport teams have definitely felt that lately. All four teams played two league games last Tuesday and Thursday while the senior and junior boys’ volleyball squads both competed at the Kenora Invitational Tournament that was hosted by […]
Staff After starting the SIJHL season off on a winning note a week ago, the Fort Frances Lakers faced a much stiffer challenge this time around. The Lakers lost a pair of games to the Dryden GM Ice Dogs over the weekend, by identical 4-3 scores, with both contests featuring […]
Staff The Muskie cross-country running team had a great showing at the season-opening SSSAA Time Trials in Thunder Bay yesterday. Trent Wilson had the top showing for the Muskies, topping the Novice boys’ 4K race with a time of 15:50. He was followed by Caden McGinnes in third (17:33), Maverick […]
Staff It was nearly a clean sweep for the Muskie court sport teams in their NorWOSSA home-openers on Tuesday afternoon against the visiting Sioux Lookout Warriors. In boys’ volleyball action, the Muskie seniors (1-1) picked up their first win of the season with a 2-1 win over the Warriors. The […]
Jamie Mountain You couldn’t have scripted a better second half for the Muskie football team in their “home game” last Thursday in Winnipeg. After overcoming some early shakiness and sloppy plays, the Muskies stretched a slim 19-18 halftime lead into a convincing 50-25 win over the Neelin Spartans in Winnipeg […]
Staff The SIJHL announced Monday that Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie Alex Bugeja has been named its initial Play It Again Sports player-of-the-week for the 2019-20 season. In two starts over the weekend, the 18-year-old West Vancouver, B.C., native backstopped the Lakers to a home-and-home sweep of the Thief River Falls […]
