Joey Payeur Adversity can bring a team closer together. For what their head coach has had to endure this pre-season, this year’s Muskie boys’ hockey squad may be as cohesive a group as has worn the black-and-gold in many a season. The Muskies headed into last night’s NorWOSSA season-opener against […]
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Staff When the hometown head coach is feeling remorseful for the job done by the men in stripes, it’s a good sign the officials didn’t have their finest hour. The Muskie girls’ hockey team ran into what it and its opponent thought was some shoddy refereeing in a 4-3 loss […]
Joey Payeur The duo sat together in anguished disbelief on the end line—soon to be joined by their equally tearful fellow senior starters. For Ashley Croswell, Claire Hyatt, and the rest of the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team, their world hadn’t ended—it just felt like it. The Grade 12 members […]
Joey Payeur Kathie Jackson isn’t going to let a change at front end throw her off kilter. The Fort Frances skip said her revamped team is coming together nicely in anticipation of their appearance at The Travelers Curling Club Championships national playdowns in Ottawa, which starts Monday and runs through […]
Joey Payeur Anyone passing Janie Guimond on the street likely could try to guess her occupation for quite some time and never get it right. That comes with the territory for the 31-year-old Guimond, who has proven a smaller person can thrive among the giants of the volleyball world if […]
Joey Payeur It was redemption all the way around, especially for one player who missed out on the fun last season. The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team capped an unbeaten NorWOSSA campaign by winning its first league title since 1999 with a 3-0 sweep (25-21, 25-22, and 25-18) of the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers have inched a little closer to the peak of the national Junior ‘A’ mountain. After running their winning streak to nine games, the squad moved up one spot to No. 4 in the CJHL’s weekly top 20 rankings announced yesterday. The Lakers (16-2) hold a […]
Staff Saturday was for fun; but now things get serious. The eight-time defending champion Muskie boys’ hockey team begins its quest for another NorWOSSA crown—and OFSAA berth—tonight against the host Dryden Eagles in the regular-season opener. Fort High and Dryden had an epic battle in last season’s NorWOSSA final, with […]
Staff Nick Minerva officially is in a groove. The Fort Frances Lakers’ defenceman had his fourth-straight multi-point game to help his squad to a 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Iron Rangers on Saturday night in Hoyt Lakes. The Lakers (16-2) racked up their ninth-straight win while the fourth-place Iron Rangers […]
Joey Payeur The historical sweep didn’t happen but it mostly was a day of golden memories for the Muskie court teams. With berths in all four of their respective NorWOSSA finals, and all of them sporting 8-0 records in league play, the black-and-gold nabbed three titles Friday on home court. […]
Staff Nick Minerva officially is in a groove. The Fort Frances Lakers’ defenceman had his fourth-straight multi-point game to help his squad to a 4-2 victory over the Minnesota Iron Rangers on Saturday night in Hoyt Lakes. The Lakers (16-2) racked up their ninth-straight win while the fourth-place Iron Rangers […]
Joey Payeur Wayne Strachan was getting all kinds of advice on who to put on the ice as last night’s shootout carried on—both from nearby and far away. The head coach and general manager of the Fort Frances Lakers finally gave in and it paid off with two points. Nick […]
