Staff When Gord McCabe’s gang found their footwork, it started putting the boot to its opponent. Grace Petsnick had a game-high 18 points as the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team opened the NorWOSSA regular season with a 49-29 victory over the host Kenora Broncos on Tuesday. “We started slowly and […]
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Joey Payeur When the Muskie boys’ hockey team last was on the ice, it saw its dream of winning the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ championship on home ice dashed in heart-wrenching fashion. This season’s edition of the black-and-gold has clear ambitions to erase the memories of that heartbreak–and they’re off to a […]
Joey Payeur Any panic buttons in Wayne Strachan’s office remain unpushed at the present time. The head coach and general manager of the Fort Frances Lakers wasn’t about to get all worked up over an 0-3-0-1 record in the SIJHL pre-season, which ended with the Lakers dropping both ends of […]
Staff Dan Bird expected scoring to be a sore spot for his team this season. So far, he looks to be a soothsayer. The co-coach of the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team watched his squad exceed 21 points just once in four games as they went 1-3 to finish tied […]
Joey Payeur Every coach wants his or her players to get better each time out. The Muskie golf team did exactly that last Tuesday yet still didn’t reap what should have been its just rewards. Fort High shaved eight strokes from its opening team total the previous week, but had […]
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 […]
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. […]
