Submitted byBill Gushulak The 50th anniversary of the original Church Curling Bonspiel is now history, with a total of 10 teams participating Saturday at the Fort Frances Curling Club. Teams representing St. Mary’s Roman Catholic, Zion Lutheran, and Knox United from Fort Frances, along with the Emo Christian Reformed Church, […]
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Staff The basketball defensive strategy of taking away the easy shots and making teams beat you from long distance has a proven track record. But there are exceptions to every rule. The Kenora Broncos dialed up six three-pointers, and outscored the Muskies 19-9 in the fourth quarter, to pull out […]
Staff Two W’s led to an exciting ‘W’ for the Fort Frances Fine Foods Fury. Willem Kirk-Bertens and William Yerxa scored in the shootout to give the Fury a 2-1 win Sunday over the Fort Frances Armstrong Crushers in the ‘C’ final of the Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association’s Novice […]
Joey Payeur A year ago may have been the low point of Sydney White’s volleyball career. This past Friday unquestionably was the highest. The normally low-key White couldn’t contain her emotions knowing she and the rest of the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team had just slain NorWOSSA’s most fearsome dragon […]
Staff The rest of the tournament field caught a “Chill” it couldn’t shake. Winnipeg’s St. Vital Chill was the class of the five-team field at the Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Association’s Novice girls’ tournament over the weekend, securing the tourney title by overpowering the Fort Frances Bruins 8-1 in the gold-medal […]
Joey Payeur All signs had the Muskies junior girls’ volleyball team headed towards the NorWOSSA winner’s circle for the second-straight year. Then the Dryden Eagles showed up to send the black-and-gold on a detour of disappointment. The Muskies claimed the first set before dropping the next three in a 3-1 […]
Joey Payeur Welcome to “As The Rock Turns.” The unfolding of the soap opera that is the upcoming NWOSSAA curling championships apparently has reached a less than fairy-tale conclusion for the Muskie curling teams–one of which seems destined to not even get to play. Muskie boys’ coach and mixed co-coach […]
Staff Tori Toriseva, like George Washington, cannot tell a lie. When asked whether it was more difficult to have qualified for the OFSAA championships in cross-country running last fall or in her current endeavour of Nordic skiing, the Muskies’ two-sport provincial representative owned up to the truth. “Cross-country running was […]
Staff Molly Carlson came into the season as a wide-eyed freshman. She left the Atlantic Coast Conference’s swimming and diving championships having opened everyone else’s eyes to her vast potential. The Fort Frances native, now a member of the NCAA Division I Florida State Seminoles, was her sport’s dominant performer […]
Joey Payeur Having gritted their way through a morning semi-final game, the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team could have been forgiven for waving the white flag after falling behind the Dryden Eagles in the NorWOSSA final later Friday at Fort High. The problem for Dryden was the black-and-gold didn’t know […]
Joey Payeur They have known success and disappointment aplenty while “rocking” the ranks of the high school, Bantam, junior, and senior curling across the province. They also know the latter of those elements can be learned from to achieve more of the first. Fort Frances native and skip Hailey Beaudry, […]
Joey Payeur Wayne Strachan will be checking this week to see if the SIJHL can make theme days a regular part of the Fort Frances Lakers’ schedule because they seem to be responding well to them. The head coach and general manager of the three-time defending league champs entered the […]
