Staff The Muskies dished out payback in a big way here yesterday. Nine days after losing three of four matches in Dryden, the black-and-gold swept all four versus the visiting Eagles in NorWOSSA play. The match of the day came in junior boys’ volleyball, where the third-place Muskies (1-3) notched […]
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Staff With St. Michael’s School unavailable last night, a quartet of teams in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League also were left on the sidelines. Defending champion How I Set Your Mother, One Hit Wonders, Bump It Up, and Arm & Hammer will make up the two matches they missed […]
Staff The future is now for the Muskie cross-country running team. Fort High put four runners in the top 10 to easily capture the Grade 7-8 girls’ team title at the annual “Turkey Trot” yesterday in Dryden. Ashlyn Beck was the fastest of the Muskies in the 3K event, coming […]
Staff It took a fourth-quarter push to get the Muskie junior girls’ basketball squad over the hump in their previous game against the Kenora Broncos. This time, Gord McCabe’s crew decided to extinguish any notion of suspense. Fort High jumped out to a 20-7 lead after one quarter, then coasted […]
Staff It took a fourth-quarter push to get the Muskie junior girls’ basketball squad over the hump in their previous game against the Kenora Broncos. This time, Gord McCabe’s crew decided to extinguish any notion of suspense. Fort High jumped out to a 20-7 lead after one quarter, then coasted […]
Joey Payeur The Genie Bouchard and Milos Raonic wanna-bes here will have to hold their horses—and their serves—until the spring. Work continued this week on the multi-use tennis court facility being built on the fenceline separating Fort Frances High School and St. Francis School. But Jason Kabel, the town’s manager […]
Joey Payeur After 15 years away, Fort Frances will have a hand in the festivities for Canada’s annual on-air hockey celebration. It was announced yesterday that the Fort Frances Lakers will take on the English River Miners at the Kenora Recreation Centre on Feb. 18 as part of “Hockey Day […]
Joey Payeur Early last month, Tyson Morrisseau wasn’t even sure he wanted to take his clubs out of the bag in a competitive vein anymore. Now he’ll be packing that bag for a trip to the all-Ontario championships. Morrisseau is heading back to the OFSAA boys’ golf championship after earning […]
Staff Tyson Morrisseau is heading back to the all-Ontarios. The Muskie golfer carded a 79 on Friday at the NWOSSAA finals in Geraldton to place second overall in the individual competition behind only Jacob Lugli of the Dryden Eagles. Both earned berths at the OFSAA championships Oct. 11-13 in Port […]
Staff There were plenty of comebacks but no wins to show for all the hard work. The Fort Frances Lakers nabbed their first point of the regular season but remain winless after dropping a pair of weekend games to the visiting Thunder Bay North Stars. The North Stars held on […]
Staff They’re ba-ack. Defending champion How I Set Your Mother nabbed the maximum six points for the first time this season in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action last night at Fort High and St. Michael’s School. The squad now has 14 points in all, which puts them into a […]
Jeff Gustafson This past weekend was a busy one across Sunset Country for anglers competing in fishing tournaments as four were taking place. LaBelle’s Birch Point Camp on Rainy Lake hosted a one-day bass tournament on Saturday, and there was a two-day musky tournament in Nestor Falls, a two-day bass […]
