Staff The four Muskie court sports teams look to be quite happy to make themselves at home—even if it’s in somebody else’s roost. Fort High ignored proper guest etiquette by sweeping the host Dryden Eagles in NorWOSSA action yesterday. The junior Muskies (2-0) beat the Eagles (0-1) by a 3-1 […]
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Joey Payeur Tyson Morrisseau was grinning from one side of his mouth and spitting nails out the other. The Muskie boys’ golf team’s top player lost on the second playoff hole to Cameron Baird of the Westgate Tigers (Thunder Bay) during the NWOSSAA championship yesterday at Heron Landing to finish […]
Joey Payeur A strong start to the season doesn’t mean the Fort Frances Lakers are content with standing pat. The two-time defending SIJHL champ yesterday announced the addition of two players to the roster. They also traded two more and cut ties with another. Coming on board are forwards Julian […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers were ‘Star’-struck last night. Jake Robinson scored twice and Riley Corbin turned aside 39 shots to lift the host Thunder Bay North Stars to a 6-3 win over the Lakers last night. The previously-winless Stars (1-3-0-1) looked anything but a struggling team right off the […]
Joey Payeur Jason and Van Pavleck have been on opposite sides in several previous fishing tournaments. But when circumstances brought the two family members from International Falls together in the same boat for the first time competitively, they were left to wonder why they didn’t try it before. Hauling in […]
Joey Payeur One step forward and one big step back to reality. That’s been the early-season story for the Muskie football team, which followed an opening-game victory with a drubbing 41-16 at the hands of the host College Lorette Collegiate Scorpions last Thursday. Fort High (1-1) now sits in a […]
Joey Payeur Dylan Kooner is glad to be back with the Fort Frances Lakers—and the feeling no doubt is mutual. The 19-year-old forward from Abbotsford, B.C. has been a big part of the Lakers’ 3-0 start as the squad begins the long road to what it hopes will be a […]
Joey Payeur Anyone wanting to golf in Windsor in two weeks first must go through the land of the Muskie—and a team that plans on defending its home course down to the last shot. It’s the ideal scenario for the Muskie boys’ golf team when they test their mettle against […]
Staff Dylan Kooner’s comeback tour is getting rave reviews so far. The Fort Frances Lakers’ forward was named the Amyotte’s Awards & Promotions Corp. player-of-the-week in the SIJHL after notching four points in three games. Kooner, 19, signed for his second year with the Lakers just ahead of the team’s […]
Staff This season isn’t last season but the champs are still the champs until somebody knocks them off the top of the SIJHL mountain. The Fort Frances Lakers are off to a 3-0 start after a pair of weekend home wins at the Ice For Kids Arena. In a rematch […]
Staff “Great Big Sea” front man Alan Doyle’s new hit single would have provided an appropriate soundtrack to the Muskie court teams trip to Kenora yesterday. 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . wins in a row, that is. The black-and-gold made themselves right at home in the Beaver Brae […]
Staff The turnout for yesterday’s season-opening NorWOSSA cross-country running meet was so sparse . . . How sparse was it? “It was like it was a Fort Frances High School practice,” quipped Muskie coach John Dutton, whose team was the beneficiary of the small number of entrants. “I think it’s […]
