Joey Payeur The Kenora Broncos’ ground game left the Muskie football team grounded. Kenora broke open a close game with three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to pull away with a 36-0 shutout in the Muskies’ home-opener Friday afternoon. Fort High (1-1) came into the game after snapping an 11-game […]
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Joey Payeur This season’s edition of the Muskie girls’ hockey team will be saturated with experience as they go for their fifth-straight NorWOSSA championship. All nine forwards are returnees, as are four of the five blueliners at this point and both goalies. “Having experienced players helps but everything stems from […]
Here are the sunrise and sunset times for Sept. 21-27: •Sept. 21–6:59 a.m. and 7:13 p.m. •Sept. 22–7:01 a.m. and 7:10 p.m. •Sept. 23–7:02 a.m. and 7:08 p.m. •Sept. 24–7:04 a.m. and 7:06 p.m. •Sept. 25–7:05 a.m. and 7:04 p.m. •Sept. 26–7:07 a.m. and 7:02 p.m. •Sept. 27–7:08 a.m. and […]
Joey Payeur In what was his first game as a high school coach, and the first at that level for many of his players, Zac Tolen was taking a wait-and-see attitude beforehand. “We’re going to find out where we are pretty quick,” Tolen smiled about the prospect of facing the […]
Joey Payeur Make way for the “Muskie Express.” The black-and-gold rolled through its opponents like a freight train at full steam during a pre-season junior girls’ basketball tournament hosted by the Dryden Eagles over the weekend. It was all Fort High from the get-go at the four-team round-robin event as […]
Joey Payeur The St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) didn’t hit every shot they took. It just seemed like they would. A blistering 12-0 start propelled the Saints to a 41-16 romp over the host Rainy River Owls on Monday in the NorWOSSA ‘A’ regular-season opener for both teams. “Usually, it’s […]
Joey Payeur Its jerseys are blue but the Rainy River Owls’ junior girls’ basketball team is extremely green. Just one of the 13 players on the roster is in Grade 10, meaning it mostly was a cast of first-time high school competitors that took the floor against the seasoned St. […]
Staff Trips to Thunder Bay in recent pre-seasons have not exactly been kind to the Muskie boys’ hockey team. This past weekend was a definite exception. The Muskies went undefeated in three outings against the host Thunder Bay Minor Midget ‘AA’ Kings, collecting two wins and a tie. On Friday, […]
Staff So much for thoughts of a winning streak for the Muskie football team, at least for now. Coming off a season-opening victory Sept. 8 that snapped a nearly two-year losing skid in the WHSFL, Fort High fell 36-0 to the Kenora Broncos in its home-opener Friday afternoon. With an […]
Staff The toughest opponent for the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team this NorWOSSA season has been firmly established. It will be their own overconfidence. Fort High tore through both their NorWOSSA rivals en route to winning the Dryden Eagles’ pre-season tournament with a 3-0 record. The Muskies beat the Kenora […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers finished their SIJHL pre-season schedule winless after suffering a pair of losses to the English River Miners over the weekend. Kyle Rosolowski, Ryan Patterson, and Nolan Dawson notched second-period goals Friday night in the Miners’ 3-1 win at the Ice For Kids Arena. Westin Cardwell […]
Staff A funny thing happened on Cole Tymkin’s way back to London–he got detoured through the Lone Star state. The 18-year-old Fort Frances resident, originally from Rainy River, is in Austin, Tex. today for the opening of training camp with the Dallas Stars after the NHL team yesterday made him […]
