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 […]
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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 […]
Jamie Mountain While the weather may have been nasty on Friday, Christian Armstrong and Mark Nault were crafting their own perfect storm out on the waters of Rainy River over the weekend. Nault, who is originally from Rainy River but now lives in Dryden, and Armstrong teamed up for an […]
Jamie Mountain The defending champs looked every bit like their dominant selves from a year ago in their first match last Tuesday. The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team dispatched the host Kenora Broncos with a 3-0 sweep in the NorWOSSA season-opener for both teams. “Overall I was impressed by our […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team played a ton of basketball last week and have been impressive to start the season. After defeating the host Kenora Broncos 26-14 in the NorWOSSA season-opener last Tuesday (Sept. 17), the Muskies compiled a 2-2 record at a one-day tournament hosted by […]
Press Release As Canada’s National Junior ‘A’ Championship prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary in May in Portage la Prairie, Man., Hockey Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Junior Hockey League, has announced that Canada’s National Junior ‘A’ Championship will return to its original name–the Centennial Cup–starting in 2020. The […]
Jamie Mountain Lloyd Stansell has had a long and distinguished career as an ice-maker and recently was in Fort Frances to lend his wealth of knowledge at the local curling club as they prepare to get the ice ready for another great season. Widely considered a legend and innovator in […]
Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Lakers lost a valued member of their hockey family this spring and it was almost as if her spirit was shining down on the team over the weekend. On the same night they honoured the memory of Karen Angus in a touching pre-game ceremony ahead […]
Jamie Mountain You couldn’t ask for a better start to the season. The defending NorWOSSA champion Muskie senior girls’ basketball team made an emphatic early statement as they cruised to a 52-17 rout of the Broncos in the season-opener last Tuesday in Kenora. Muskie coach Gord McCabe said that the […]
Jamie Mountain With the return of fall comes the return of the high school cross-country running season. This year’s edition of the Muskies has been hard work in preparation for the NorWOSSA season, which officially kicks off today with the SSSAA Time Trials in Thunder Bay. Members of the black-and-gold […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers couldn’t have asked for much of a better start to the SIJHL season. The Lakers routed the Thief River Falls Norskies 8-2 in their home-opener on Friday night before following that up the next night with a comeback 3-2 overtime victory on the road to […]
