Jamie Mountain The Muskie girls’ hockey team will be looking to solidify their game this week as they head towards the NorWOSSA playoffs. Heading into yesterday’s final game of the regular season against the host Sioux Lookout Warriors (the outcome wasn’t known at press time), the black-and-gold (13-1-1) sat just […]
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Jamie Mountain It’s been a difficult season for the Fort Frances Lakers, to say the least. Things were muddied even further over the weekend as the squad was on the losing end of all three of its games and now has dropped six-straight overall. The Thunder Bay North Stars, the […]
Staff A trio of Fort Frances Aquanauts had a standout weekend Feb. 3-4 at the Northwestern Ontario LC Championship hosted by the Thunder Bay Thunderbolts. Jacy Gagne claimed gold in the female age 15-and-older 50m breaststroke (40.08) and also nabbed bronze in the 100m breaststroke (1:30.75). Ayiana Gagne earned bronze […]
Jamie Mountain He may be the youngest guy on the team but his puck-stopping abilities make him look more like a seasoned veteran. Darian Klem has been a star between the pipes for the Muskie boys’ hockey team this season, starting in goal in each of the black-and-gold’s 11 games […]
Staff Captain Annalise (C.C.) Hayes notched four goals to lead the Muskie girls’ hockey team to a narrow 5-4 win over the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints last night in Kenora. Hayes opened the scoring at 10:54 of the first period, with Jillian Calder and Taylor Croswell drawing the assists. Chelsea […]
Jamie Mountain Having three games in as many days proved to be too much of an uphill battle for the Fort Frances Lakers over the weekend. The squad wound up losing all three and now is mired in a six-game losing streak. The Thunder Bay North Stars, the hottest team […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie boys’ hockey team served their cake and ate it, too. Just hours after hosting their annual tea and bake sale in the Fort High cafeteria, the black-and-gold (10-1) closed out their regular-season home schedule with a 17-2 rout of the Red Lake Rams on Saturday night […]
Staff Three of the four Muskie court sports teams are heading into this Friday’s NorWOSSA playoffs in Dryden on a high note. The senior and juniors girls’ volleyball teams, along with the junior boys’ basketball team, all came away victorious this past Thursday against the host Eagles. The junior boys […]
Jamie Mountain The Muskie boys’ hockey team sure knows how to reward their parents. Hosting their annual “Parents Appreciation Night,” which saw every Muskie player get a photo taken with their parents, along with having a blurb read by the P.A. announcer about what they were most thankful for, Fort […]
Staff It was a successful mission again for the Muskie court teams yesterday against the host Kenora Broncos. All four squads came away victorious to help solidify their standings heading into the NorWOSSA playoffs. The Muskie junior boys’ basketball team came away with a 52-44 triumph to improve their league-leading […]
Jamie Mountain Look out Sudbury, the Muskies are coming! Six members of the Muskie Nordic ski team qualified for OFSAA on Monday at the NWOSSAA finals in Kenora. Of those, four qualified in the junior girls’ division, with Tori Toriseva finishing first with a time of 16 minutes even. Jaida […]
Jamie Mountain You could say the Muskie boys’ basketball teams are shining brightly of late. The senior hoopsters are heading into the final week of the NorWOSSA regular season fresh off a third-place finish at the Kenora Invitational Tournament held Friday and Saturday. The black-and-gold opened play Friday with a […]
