Staff StaffIt was déja vu for the top three teams in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League last night. How I Set Your Mother (30 points), That’s What She Set (27), and No Diggity (26) all garnered the maximum six points available in their two matches. “Mother” remains perfect on […]
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Staff Nasty mid-autumn weather took its toll on everyone—from the tournament leader to the Muskies’ hopeful and most everyone in between. Tyson Morrisseau struggled in the inclement conditions to card a second-round 85 yesterday to finish in a three-way tie for 54th place in the 121-golfer field at the OFSAA […]
Staff John Dutton’s focus wasn’t on the numbers to the left of his team members’ names on the results sheet, but the ones further to the right. “I don’t know where they placed for sure, and I don’t even care,” the Muskie cross-country running coach said Tuesday shortly after the […]
Staff For not having played the course before, Tyson Morrisseau found his way around it without too much difficulty. The Muskies’ lone representative at the OFSAA boys’ golf championship in Windsor carded a two-over 74 in the first round of the 36-hole event yesterday. That put the NWOSSAA silver-medalist in […]
Staff At the halfway point of the NorWOSSA season, all four Muskie court teams sport perfect 4-0 records. It was an all-Muskie sweep again yesterday as the squads finally held their regular-season home-openers after winning their first three matches on the road. The senior boys’ volleyball team continued to show […]
Staff Welcome back, Jack. Newly-reacquired Jack Bernie scored in his season debut, and Pierce Dushenko stopped all 25 shots he faced, as the Fort Frances Lakers blanked the host Dryden GM Ice Dogs 4-0 last night. The victory moved the two-time defending SIJHL champs three points ahead of the Ice […]
Joey Payeur The Kenora Broncos scored 31 unanswered points to turn a close game into a 45-16 romp in WHSFL action here Friday afternoon. “It’s the same mistakes again,” noted Muskie head coach Mike Cuzzolino, whose team dropped to 2-2 on the season to sit tied for sixth place in […]
Joey Payeur What originally was intended to be an annual affair now will be held every other year. Fort Frances Sports Hall of Fame organizer Terry Ogden said Friday that there will be no induction ceremony next summer. Instead, new inductees will be added every second year, with the next […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers keep rolling—and their stock is rising again on a nation-wide basis. Dylan Robertson netted the game-winner at 7:21 of the third period as the Lakers beat the host Minnesota Iron Rangers 5-3 on Saturday night to earn their third-straight victory. The Lakers (6-1) let a […]
Staff The Kenora Broncos found out they weren’t as good as they maybe thought they were last season playing in a higher division. The Muskies discovered Friday that the Broncos are still pretty good. Kenora used two late first-half touchdowns to break open a close game en route to a […]
Staff Four other teams in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League proved that taking care of business isn’t just a “Mother’s” prerogative. League-leading How I Set Your Mother was on top of its game again last night, registering its fourth-straight six-point night to boost its season total to 24. But […]
Staff In a race named after turkeys, Jenny Hammond and her Muskie teammates’ performance was the farthest thing from resembling the traditional Thanksgiving bird. Hammond’s first-place finish in the high school girls’ open division propelled the Muskies’ all-female cross-country running team to top spot in the division at the Dryden […]
