Staff The Muskie track-and-field team shone brightly at the NWOSAA championships held in Thunder Bay on Tuesday and Wednesday. Fort High will be sending eight athletes to the OFSAA championships, which are slated for June 6-8 at Guelph University. Among the girls, Alacea Yerxa qualified by nabbing silver in the […]
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Staff The Couchiching Raiders are off to a great start to the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League season. Grace Bragg pitched brilliantly to help the host Raiders hand the Big Grassy Lynx their first loss of the season in a 12-2 romp on Monday night. It also was the […]
Staff It was a no-go for district stock car racers on Saturday night. The Borderland Racing Association suffered its first cancellation at the Emo Speedway as the track was too wet and the pits were full of water from all of the recent rainfall. Racing is scheduled to resume this […]
Jamie Mountain The season may have came to an end a little earlier than they would have liked but both the Rainy River Owls girls’ and boys’ soccer teams battled hard and earned silver at the NorWOSSA ‘A’ playoffs in Kenora last week. After finishing the regular season in second […]
Staff The Sight & Sound Wolves had a howling good night offensively last Thursday. Sight & Sound used a pair of homeruns in the second inning as part of a four-run frame and never looked back as they cruised to a 14-3 romp over Windey’s Warriors in Rainy River District […]
Jamie Mountain It was a banner day for the Muskie track-and-field team at the annual Harry McMaster Classic meet held in Dryden last Thursday. The black-and-gold needed a wheelbarrow to bring home all of the hardware they earned home as the team earned a plethora of medals and smashed personal […]
Jamie Mountain Another successful regular season is officially in the books and the Muskie boys’ soccer team is one step closer to their ultimate goal. The conditions were poor and they definitely didn’t play their best brand of soccer, but the black-and-gold still managed to earn a win and a […]
Jamie Mountain Playing second fiddle was a tiresome tune for Dan and Josh Pollard. After back-to-back years of finishing as the runners-up to Baudette’s Les Morrison and Oliver Gibbins of Morson, the father-son duo flipped the script at the 18th-annual Emo Walleye Classic over the weekend and ended the reigning […]
Jamie Mountain The black-and-gold are feeling a little more black-and-blue these days. A fresh batch of injuries put the Muskie girls’ soccer team behind the eight-ball last week in the NorWOSSA regular-season ending games in Kenora–and the rainy weather didn’t help matters much. Muskie head coach Sara Roach suffered an […]
Staff The third time was the charm for Dan and Josh Pollard over the weekend. After back-to-back years of finishing second to Baudette’s Les Morrison and Morson’s Oliver Gibbins, the Emo natives captured the 18th-annual Emo Walleye Classic with a two-day haul of 15.69 pounds and dethroned the reigning champs. […]
Staff The Muskie girls’ soccer team was unable to come away with a win on the rain-soaked final day of the regular season but still clinched a first-place bye to next Wednesday’s (May 29) NorWOSSA final in Dryden. Fort High dropped both of its matches against the host Kenora Broncos […]
Staff It’s been a great start to the Rainy River District Fastball League season for the two-time defending champion Fort Frances Braves. Cole Tymkin smacked another homer to pace the Braves to a 17-1 rout of the Manitou Thunderbirds on Tuesday night to improve their record to a perfect 3-0. […]
