Staff If the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team hopes to claim NorWOSSA gold this coming Tuesday in Kenora, they’ll have to win the semi-final match first. The Kenora Broncos secured first place–and the bye to the final–after beating the Dryden Eagles 3-1 yesterday in the regular-season finale for both squads. […]
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Staff Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Carter Chorney was among three players handed suspensions by SIJHL Commissioner Bryan Graham. Chorney was suspended for three games under supplementary discipline after being assessed a match penalty in Saturday night’s 3-2 loss to the host Thief River Falls Norskies. Chorney will miss Friday night’s […]
Staff The Muskie court teams wrapped up regular-season play Tuesday afternoon by taking three of four matches from the host Dryden Eagles. The junior girls’ basketball team capped an undefeated campaign (8-0) by dumping the Eagles 66-36. By finishing in first place, they earned a bye to the final at […]
Staff The Thief River Falls Norskies have been steamrolling over their SIJHL opponents so far this season. The Fort Frances Lakers were their latest victims–falling 5-2 on Friday night and then 3-2 on Saturday at the Ralph Engelstad Arena as the front-running Norskies extended their season-opening winning streak to 12-straight […]
Staff Their route to NorWOSSA gold will be different although both teams share the same goal. Winning a championship. The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team had a chance to finish the regular season with an 8-0 record yesterday in Dryden. But even if they wound up at 7-1 (the outcome […]
Staff Goal #1–check. Regardless if they won or lost their regular-season finale yesterday in Dryden, the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team has first place sewn up and a bye to the final at the NorWOSSA playoffs this coming Tuesday (Nov. 7) in Kenora. “One of our goals was to finish […]
Press Release It had been three years in the making but on Sunday, Oct. 22, the Lake of the Woods Speedway in Kenora hosted its first-ever event that involved a practice of race cars that may be racing there in 2018. It happened in the nick of time as the […]
Staff The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team isn’t fretting about having a bye to the NorWOSSA final or not. And that’s just as well as it won’t know until tomorrow how the standings will play out. The squad won its regular-season finale yesterday in Dryden–rallying from a two-set deficit to […]
Staff The Muskie girls’ hockey team has had a solid pre-season so far. Fresh off capturing the Sturgeon Heights tournament in Winnipeg, the squad went 3-1 at the annual Scott Clendenning Memorial Showcase over the weekend at the Ice For Kids Arena. After opening play Friday night with a 2-0 […]
Staff The Muskie football team is getting another crack at the St. Norbert Celtics. And this time, a berth in the WHSFL Bowl final is at stake. When the two teams clashed during the regular season back on Oct. 13, the host Celtics came away with a 36-14 victory. Fort […]
Staff The head coach of the Muskie girls’ basketball team wants to see the NorWOSSA playoff format changed. Gord McCabe strongly disagrees with a rule change NorWOSSA made over the last couple of years that sees playoff games trimmed to eight-minute quarters after having playing 10-minute quarters in regular-season play. […]
Here are the sunrise and sunset times for Nov. 2-8: •Nov. 2–8:02 a.m. and 5:51 p.m. •Nov. 3–8:04 a.m. and 5:50 p.m. •Nov. 4–8:05 a.m. and 5:48 p.m. •Nov. 5–7:07 a.m. and 4:47 p.m. •Nov. 6–7:09 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. •Nov. 7–7:10 a.m. and 4:44 p.m. •Nov. 8–7:12 a.m. and […]
