Staff “A great day for the Fort High running program.” That’s how Muskie cross-country head coach John Dutton put it after his eight-runner contingent competed at the OFSAA championships on Saturday in Petawawa. The Midget women’s squad–comprised of Greta Fedoruk, Ashlyn Beck, Grace Kowal, and Jaida Norris–had a particularly exceptional […]
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Staff The Muskie Midget women’s team finished in ninth place overall out of 34 teams competing at the OFSAA cross-country championships held Saturday in Petawawa. Greta Fedoruk led the way by taking 73rd-place overall individually out of 257 entrants–completing the four-km course in a time of 16:39.1. Ashlyn Beck wound […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers were thumped 9-0 by the Thunder Bay North Stars in SIJHL action Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena here to extend their losing skid to four-straight games. Ryan Mignault and Brendan Gillis both picked up four points each to lead the offensive barrage. […]
Staff The Muskie football team fell short in its bid to capture the WHSFL Bowl this season. The black-and-gold lost 24-15 to the St. Norbert Celtics in a semi-final showdown yesterday in Winnipeg. Scoring details were not available at press time. The West Kildonan Wolverines edged the Churchill Bulldogs 34-30 […]
How I Set Your Mother and Gillons’ each earned the maximum six points in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action last night. Take a Hit wound up with five points on the night, with Bump It Up nabbing four. Kiss My Pass, Scared Hitless, and the Volley Llamas all garnered […]
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. […]
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 […]
