Jamie Mountain A new season led to same old heartbreak for the Muskie boys’ hockey team. Ben Lavoie scored with 5:05 left in overtime to lift the second-place Sioux Lookout Warriors to a 3-2 win over the top-ranked Muskies in the third-and-deciding game of their NorWOSSA final Sunday afternoon at […]
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Jamie Mountain Sometimes in sports, it simply comes down to the fact the opposing team is better than you are. That was the case in the best-of-three NorWOSSA girls’ hockey final between the Muskies and Eagles last week as Dryden swept the series 2-0 following a 5-1 win in Game […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie Nordic ski team steadily improved throughout the season–and just may have saved their best for last. The four-member contingent that qualified all put in great performances at the OFSAA championships held Thursday and Friday in Duntroon. Emma Toriseva, Kayli Machura, Tori Toriseva, and Joseph Dueck all […]
Staff The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team rebounded in a big way this morning at the all-Ontarios in Ahmerstburg. The black-and-gold opened Pool ‘A’ play yesterday morning with a pair of straight-sets losses to host General Amherst (5-25/15/25) and Corpus Christi (16-25/8-25). But the squad turned things around with a […]
Staff The home cooking didn’t taste so good for the Fort Frances Lakers over the weekend. The squad lost all three games played at the Ice For Kids Arena, which included a narrow 3-2 setback to the Thief River Falls Norskies on Friday before being blanked 2-0 by the red-hot […]
Staff Members of the Muskie Nordic ski team had their talents on full display at the OFSAA championships held Thursday and Friday in Duntroon. Leading the way was Emma Toriseva, who nabbed a 12th-place finish out of 129 competitors in the high school junior girls’ 3.5-km division with a time […]
Staff Ben Lavoie scored with 5:05 left in overtime to lift the Sioux Lookout Warriors to a 3-2 win over the Muskie boys’ hockey team in the third-and-deciding game of their NorWOSSA final yesterday afternoon at the Ice For Kids Arena. The Warriors now advance to OFSAA for the second-straight […]
Staff They battled all season but a berth to the all-Ontarios just wasn’t in the cards for the Muskie girls’ hockey team. Lauryn Loyer scored twice to pace the Dryden Eagles to a convincing 5-1 win in Game 2 of their NorWOSSA final Thursday night at the Ice For Kids […]
Staff The Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League playoffs kicked off with two quarter-final games Tuesday night at Fort High. Both games saw teams hit great shots, pass the ball well, and–other than the Muskies–have two subs each. The first game had the third-ranked BDO Ballerz squaring off against the sixth-place […]
Staff Tyler Johnson tallied twice, including the game-winner, to lift the Thief River Falls Norskies to a 4-1 win over the visiting Fort Frances Lakers on Tuesday night. Jaedin Ness opened the scoring for the fifth-place Lakers (16-28-2-1) more than 13 minutes into the first period as he notched his […]
Staff Connor Nelson netted the eventual game-winner early in the second period last night as the Muskie boys’ hockey team earned a 3-1 win over the Sioux Lookout Warriors in the opener of their best-of-three NorWOSSA final at the Ice For Kids Arena. Ben Forbes opened the scoring for the […]
Staff The Dryden Eagles used a three-goal outburst in the third period to pull out a 3-1 win over the visiting Muskie girls’ hockey team in the opener of their best-of-three NorWOSSA final Tuesday night. After both Muskie goalie Jersey Masson and Eagles’ netminder Hannah Zilkalns formed their versions of […]
