Staff Home court will have to be a bigger advantage if the Dryden Eagles hope to stop another black-and-gold avalanche next week. Sydney White made life miserable down low for the Eagles with a game-high 18 points as the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team clinched first place with a 38-15 […]
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SubmittedConrad Dueck After a month of warm-up games, some re-shuffling of teams, and an influx of new players (young and old), the Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League opened its season Tuesday. While the low scores may attest to some of the rustiness of the players, there was good energy on […]
Joey Payeur For a guy coming off a natural hat trick, Matt Tustin’s demeanour was far from cheerful. The Fort Frances Lakers’ forward was more concerned with his team’s poor effort in the first 20 minutes, when the Dryden GM Ice Dogs stormed out to a 4-0 lead before holding […]
Joey Payeur No matter who his partner was, Brandon Kamm was landing all the big fish this year. He ended up landing a big cheque, too—by about the length of a minnow. The Dryden native, who now calls Fort Frances home, was honoured last Thursday with $10,000 after being named […]
Joey Payeur By the looks of things, the rest of NorWOSSA had better fear the Muskie girls’ hockey team like Michael Myers in a bad mood on Hallowe’en night in Haddonfield, Ill. Taylor Croswell scored twice as Fort High skated to a convincing 4-1 win over the Dryden Eagles on […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers had plenty of great skill and good luck to carry them to the past three SIJHL titles. While the skill still is present at times this season, the luck apparently went on an extended vacation. A bizarre week for the Lakers was capped Saturday […]
Joey Payeur Discussing the players a team still has while shrugging off the ones no longer around is familiar coachspeak. Jordan Sinclair preferred to walk up to the elephant in the room and punch it right in the tusk. The new head coach of the Muskie boys’ hockey team didn’t […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers are playing better hockey as of late—just not winning hockey. Just one point out of a possible four went the way of the Lakers on the weekend, starting with a 4-3 shootout loss against the host Thunder Bay North Stars on Friday night. Then they […]
Staff All the big guns were blazing last night in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League. The top three teams in the standings all garnered the maximum six points, as did last year’s league finalist in what was their best showing so far this season. No Diggity (32 points), Kiss […]
Staff Next year begins today for the Muskie football team. The St. John’s Tigers ended a difficult football season for the black-and-gold with a 40-6 win yesterday in the first round of the WHSFL Bowl playoffs in Winnipeg. St. John’s now advances on face Kenora in the semi-finals next Thursday […]
Staff The Muskie junior girls’ basketball team now knows they can put their feet up and let their challenger come to them. Fort High dumped the host Kenora Broncos 36-19 in NorWOSSA action yesterday to clinch first place and an automatic bye to the league final Nov. 8 in Dryden. […]
Joey Payeur From the Eagles’ clutches into the Tigers’ cage. The Muskies could dwell on what likely was the team’s worst-ever “Homecoming” game loss—a 57-0 drubbing at the hands of the Dryden Eagles on Friday. But there’s little time for pity parties. The playoffs get underway tomorrow at Nomads Field […]
