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 […]
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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 […]
Joey Payeur Todd Hamilton isn’t apologizing for his team turning the season’s annual opening tournament into its personal stomping ground. Make it six-straight championship titles for the Muskie girls’ hockey team at the eight-team Husky Classic in Winnipeg after a 4-1 win over the Lord Selkirk Royals in the gold-medal […]
Joey Payeur The shadow of his predecessor’s learning tree clearly can be seen in the approach of Jordan Sinclair—even though the new head coach of the Muskie boys’ hockey team needs to get something out of the way up front. “It’s important to know that I’m not Jamie Davis and […]
Staff It was the pigskin version of a National Geographic special. The undefeated Dryden Eagles swooped into town and sank their talons into the winless Muskies before flying off with a 57-0 victory Friday afternoon in Fort High’s annual “Homecoming” game to close out the WHSFL regular season. Dryden (6-0) […]
Staff It was a “Classic” case of playing one’s best hockey at the right time. The Muskie girls’ hockey team scored three unanswered goals in the third period yesterday to earn a 4-1 win over the Lord Selkirk Royals (Winnipeg) and capture the ‘A’-side title at the 2016 Husky Classic […]
