Jamie Mountain The Fort Frances Lakers are finally righting the ship financially but aren’t exactly pleased with the lack of interest locally in the junior ‘A’ hockey franchise. That was the message delivered by Lakers’ president Milt Strachan at their annual general meeting held last Monday night (May 27) at […]
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Staff It’s now almost been an entire decade of NorWOSSA dominance for the Muskie boys’ soccer team. Fort High nabbed an incredible ninth-straight league crown with a narrow 2-1 win over the host Dryden Eagles in yesterday afternoon’s final. Brett Allan opened the scoring for the top-ranked Muskies within the […]
Staff It was a battle of the unbeatens but it was the three-time defending champs who came out on the right side of things. The Fort Frances Her-icanes improved their record to 3-0 with a 3-1 win over the Renegades in Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League action last night. […]
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 […]
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 […]
