Staff Tanner Smith has a chance to be at the top of his class someday. But the road between now and then is filled with hard lessons for the inexperienced. The young Northwest Bay Chieftains’ pitcher got one of those lessons Sunday from the visiting Barwick Blue Knights, who cruised […]
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Staff The more they play together, the better they get–and they almost were good enough to beat the defending league champs. Just one bad inning prevented the Fort Frances Angels from pulling off an upset over the Fort Frances Her-icanes, who hung on for an 11-7 win in Rainy River […]
Joey Payeur Their elder siblings had left some big shoes to fill but the shoes ended up fitting just fine. A family tradition theme saturated the annual Muskie athletic awards banquet last Thursday at the local Legion. Tory Beaudry matched the accomplishment of older sister, Hailey, in 2014 by co-winning […]
Joey Payeur The two best parts for Brandon Croswell about having his dad sharing the motocross track with him this year as a competitor for the first time? “When he wipes out and when I pass him [in practice],” chuckled the 12-year-old about family patriarch Trevor Croswell. “I’m not racing […]
Press Release With three seasons of experience competing in the junior circuit, Josh Gouin is ready to play a pivotal role for the Waldorf University hockey team. Gouin, a six-foot, 194-pound defenceman from Fort Frances, signed a letter of intent with the Warriors on 2017. “Josh is a very skilled […]
Staff Here is the complete list of Muskie athletic award winners from this past year: •Golf MVP–Tyson Morrisseau •Jr. girls’ volleyball MVP (Horban Award)–Adyson Wilson-Hands/Jamie Spencer •Jr. boys’ volleyball MVP–Austin Armstrong •Sr. girls’ volleyball MVP (Patti-Jo Reid Award)–Abby Sanders •Sr. boys’ volleyball MVP (Horban Award)–Aaron Bujold •Jr. girls’ basketball MVP–Adyson […]
Staff Rainy River High School held its annual awards banquet last Wednesday to honour its elite performers both in athletics and other areas. During the sports part of the evening, Bethany Sinninghe and Lemuel Carradice were named the senior female and male athletes of the year. In the junior categories, […]
Staff It was another game of “Chase The Ace” at the Emo Speedway on Saturday night, with Jamie Davis starring as the “ace.” Right now, the Devlin driver is playing with a completely different deck of cards than anyone else after winning both the WISSOTA Modifieds and Midwest Modifieds feature […]
Staff When building a foundation, any good architect knows to put the biggest, strongest blocks down first. Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan is following that philosophy with one of his first two recruits for the upcoming 2017-18 SIJHL season. Defenceman Cohen MacPherson is a safe […]
Joey Payeur Mike Cuzzolino’s strongest wish as head coach of the Muskie football team is to turn around a program in tatters. But it’s more than a one-man job (or even a 15-man) job. The end of his team’s two-week spring camp on Friday left Cuzzolino with more questions than […]
Staff The 2017-18 edition of the Fort Frances Lakers is starting to take shape. The SIJHL squad announced yesterday it had signed its first two players in advance of next season in defenceman Cohen MacPherson and forward Jeff Venzon. MacPherson will beef up the Lakers’ defence corps, coming in at […]
