Jamie Mountain If you’ve been itching to get out on the snowmobile trails, this weekend is a great time to do it. The Borderland Snowmobile Club will be holding its first “poker run” of the season on Saturday from Fort Frances to Emo. Registration is from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the […]
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Jamie Mountain It was another loss in the end but you can’t fault the effort. The Fort Frances Lakers played their best game after the Christmas break but ultimately came up on the short end of a 4-3 overtime loss to the visiting Dryden GM Ice Dogs on Friday night […]
Staff It was a great day on the trails for the Muskie Nordic skiing team last Wednesday in Kenora. The nine-member contingent all clocked impressive times at the Mount Evergreen Classic, which was the first race of the NorWOSSA season. Emma Toriseva and Kayli Machura finished 1-2 in the junior […]
Jamie Mountain The end of the regular season is quickly approaching and the Rainy River Owls’ court teams will be looking to end on a high note. The junior boys’ basketball squad came up on the wrong end of a 57-47 score to the visiting St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) […]
Staff It was an impressive weekend for the Muskie junior and senior girls’ volleyball teams. The juniors went undefeated en route to winning gold at the “Winter Blast” tournament hosted by the Kenora Broncos on Friday and Saturday. The Muskies won each of their round-robin matches in straight sets in […]
Staff The week didn’t start off so well for the Muskie girls’ hockey team but the weekend more than made up for it. Martina Woods and Tatum Glowasky each netted hat tricks to pace the visiting Muskies (4-5-0-1) to a 13-0 drubbing of the fifth-place Sioux Lookout Warriors (0-7) yesterday […]
Staff A Jacob Siebenga goal just over three-and-a-half minutes into overtime lifted the visiting Dryden GM Ice Dogs to a 4-3 win over the Fort Frances Lakers on Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena. Brett Hahkala opened the scoring for the Lakers 10:41 into the first period on […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ hockey team battled hard but ultimately couldn’t win it all at the annual Piper Classic Tournament of Champions in Winnipeg over the weekend. The black-and-gold compiled a 1-0-1 record in Pool ‘B’ play before losing both playoff games in the Boston Pizza Division. Fort High opened […]
Staff It’s a game the Muskies girls’ hockey team will like to put behind them quickly. The Dryden Eagles exploded for four goals in the second period and never looked back in a 7-1 rout of Fort High on Tuesday night at the Ice For Kids Arena. After a scoreless […]
Staff A Jake Eischen power-play goal with just under six minutes to go proved to be the game-winner as the Thief River Falls Norskies held off a late Fort Frances Lakers’ rally in a 5-3 win last night at the Ralph Engelstad Arena. The Norskies came out strong, grabbing a […]
Staff Three of the four Muskie court teams came away victorious Tuesday afternoon in NorWOSSA action against the host Kenora Broncos. Both the junior and senior girls’ volleyball squads claimed their matches in four sets to improve their league records to an identical 5-0. The juniors won by scores of […]
Staff The Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association’s PeeWee Leafs travelled to Fargo, N.D. to play in the SCHEELS Girls’ International Hockey Tournament over the weekend, where they wound up finishing in fifth place in the 12U ‘B’ division. As a result of injuries and a short bench, the squad picked […]
