Staff The Muskie golf team is in position to play at home after all. “We’re sitting in a good spot going into Red Lake,” Muskie coach Brian Johnstone said after Fort High shot a team score of 338 to end up in third place at the NorWOSSA regular-season finale yesterday […]
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Staff The throne has been left unattended so a chance at ascending to royalty is available to all. The Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League kicked off its season last night at Fort High and St. Michael’s School with one notable absence beyond the 12 teams that hit the court. Defending […]
Staff The time to put preparation into practice has arrived. Gridiron fever is back as the Muskie football team opens its WHSFL season here tomorrow at 3 p.m. against the Tec Voc Hornets. With the squad hoping to pack its newly-constructed bleachers for the contest, Fort High will look to […]
Joey Payeur Chip Derickson’s interest in James Bond movies is uncertain. But this past Saturday, he unquestionably was the man with the golden gun. Derickson bucked the odds—and a recent run of poor health—to capture his first championship at the Fort Frances Sportsmen’s Club’s annual skeet shooting tournament at the […]
Joey Payeur It wasn’t an ivory tower, just a small, gated platform extending out over one corner of the Couchiching Arena. But it gave Wayne Strachan a different vantage point to judge his team’s strengths and weaknesses—and gave his players a clear indication they were under the microscope. With their […]
Joey Payeur Scott Clendenning was all about picking one’s self up after a setback, standing tall, and moving forward. That’s what this year’s edition of the Muskie girls’ hockey team will do, but the program’s most successful head coach ever will be a big part of everything they do even […]
Joey Payeur Now that’s more like it. The Fort Frances Lakers shook themselves out of the doldrums they’ve been going through to finish the pre-season with a 1-3 record after a 4-2 win over the Minnesota Iron Rangers last night at the Couchiching Arena. “Obviously that was our strongest game […]
Staff With all the shots flying in his direction, Pierce Dushenko must have felt like he was in the middle of a “Duck Dynasty” episode—playing the role of the duck. The Steinbach Pistons outshot the Fort Frances Lakers 50-16 as the MJHL runners-up from last season completed a home-and-home pre-season […]
Joey Payeur Wayne Strachan won’t be investing in any dynamite to blow up any drawing boards at this point. The head coach and general manager of the Fort Frances Lakers was taking the big-picture view after a 4-2 loss to the Steinbach Pistons (MJHL) on Friday at the Ice For […]
Joey Payeur If any Muskie golfers want to compete on their home course this season, they’ll have to earn the right to do so. The NWOSSAA golf championships are set for Heron Landing Golf Course on Sept. 30. But unlike at the OFSAA level in other high school sports, the […]
Joey Payeur For most of last year’s Muskie football training camp, there weren’t even enough players to have one person at every position on offence and defence. So with more than 30 players coming out for the first week of this year’s camp, head coach Mike Cuzzolino is buoyed by […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers dug themselves a hole from which they couldn’t quite climb out. Luke Amsbaugh tallied twice as the Steinbach Pistons (MJHL) doubled the Lakers 4-2 in pre-season action Friday night at the Ice For Kids Arena. The Lakers (0-2) were down 1-0 after the first period, […]
