Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers made sure Christmas would be a little more merry for them. Third-period goals by Jared Virtanen and Dylan Kooner lifted the squad to a 4-3 win over the English River Miners in SIJHL action Saturday night at the Ice For Kids Arena. The victory […]
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Staff These are not your father’s Sioux Lookout Warriors—not even your older brother’s. The Warriors, largely a punching bag in recent seasons for the Muskie boys’ hockey team, showed they’ve come a long way in pushing the defending OFSAA champs to the limit before Fort High prevailed 5-4 in overtime […]
Joey Payeur Head coach Todd Hamilton was pushing his team to raise the tempo of its game right from the get-go last night. His players apparently were open to the suggestion. The Muskies poured it on from the opening face-off en route to a 12-0 romp over the host Kenora […]
Staff It’s not like things haven’t been going rough enough for Utah Grizzlies’ goalie Ryan Faragher lately. The Fort Frances native was injured in last Friday’s 6-5 overtime win against the Rapid City Rush in ECHL action. Faragher was hurt after a collision with an unidentified Rush player on a […]
Staff It was Christmas come early for Gillons’ last night. A season-high six-point haul vaulted the squad into seventh place in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League in the final set of matches before the holiday break. Gillons’, the only team to garner the maximum points last night, moved up […]
Staff There’s no place like home but the Muskie boys’ hockey team decided to make themselves at home in Red Lake last night. Cam Gushulak had a goal and three assists, and 14 different Muskies had at least one point, in a 15-1 romp over the Rams in NorWOSSA action. […]
Staff The Dryden Eagles swooped into Fort Frances on Tuesday and the Muskie court teams couldn’t see them fly away soon enough. It was the visitors’ day to shine as the Eagles captured three of the four matches to kick off the NorWOSSA regular season. Only the Muskie senior girls’ […]
Conrad Dueck Although they started off with the lead, and kept it close until half-time, BDO’s four-player lineup eventually ran out of gas in falling 71-48 to Revco in Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action Tuesday night. Jeff Campbell and Todd Richards provided almost all the offence for BDO, scoring […]
Joey Payeur If nobody else was interested in protecting Brandon Bodnar, Wayne Strachan wasn’t going to leave his goalie out there to absorb a continuous flurry of pucks. But by the time the period was over, Strachan re-enlisted Bodnar’s help after the back-up plan backfired. It’s rare a netminder gets […]
Staff It will be a trip to Sudbury in February for four local bowlers. Jeff Watts and Aaron Yaw teamed up to finish in second place at the zone round of the annual Hi-Low Doubles tournament over the weekend at Plaza Lanes here. The duo wound up at +243 over […]
Joey Payeur It was well worth the wait for Georgia Oltsher. The 11-year-old from Emo got the chance-of-a-lifetime when she was chosen to participate in Sunday’s Scotiabank Girls’ HockeyFest in Winnipeg. She not only got to skate on the home ice of the Winnipeg Jets but also share that ice […]
Joey Payeur Jordan Sinclair believes had he been told before the weekend that his Muskie boys’ hockey team only would give up four goals in five games, and just one of those at even strength, he could have seen his troops hoisting a championship trophy. The Kelvin Clippers (Winnipeg) had […]
