Staff Tate Sproxton had been a punching bag for the Fort Frances Lakers for most of the season. On Saturday, however, it was the Dryden GM Ice Dogs’ netminder who knocked out the SIJHL’s top team. Sproxton made 42 saves while his teammates scored four unanswered goals, including three in […]
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Staff Holes in the middle are for doughnuts, not the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team. With the squad’s two starters at the middle position unavailable for the match, a cast of fill-ins more than ably handled the job as part of the Muskies sweep of the host Kenora Broncos (25-13, […]
Staff A first-year team is bound to have its peaks and valleys. But Arthur Van Ael ensured the Muskies wouldn’t leave Dryden empty-handed. Van Ael captured bronze in the senior boys’ 7.5-km event at the NorWOSSA Nordic ski races yesterday. He turned in a time of 36:22 to trail only […]
Joey Payeur There’s no place like home. The Muskie boys’ hockey team grabbed home-ice advantage throughout the NorWOSSA playoffs after locking up first place with an 8-1 thumping of the Sioux Lookout Warriors in their regular-season finale last night at the Ice For Kids Arena. Sioux Lookout (9-5) dropped down […]
Staff Devlin native Mike Badiuk and Travis Showalter of Nestor Falls would be perfectly fine with a lack of suspense come tomorrow. Badiuk, at third, and Showalter at lead have been on their games to help Dylan Johnston’s Thunder Bay rink to a 4-0 record and a three-way tie for […]
Joey Payeur Firmly in the underdog role, Chris Silver and his Fort Frances rink wanted to keep the game as close as they could for as long as they could. That lasted all of one end in the face of the tornado that is Tanner Horgan. The Sudbury rink scored […]
Staff The point of make-up games is to make up ground. Kiss My Pass followed that plan to the letter last week—getting the maximum six points available as one of only three teams in action in the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League. The league’s second-place squad swept sixth-place Bump it […]
Staff One blowout plus one nail-biter equals one good start. Devlin’s Mike Badiuk and Travis Showalter from Nestor Falls played a large hand in helping Thunder Bay skip Dylan Johnston get off to a 2-0 start yesterday at the Northern Ontario men’s curling championship in Kenora. With Badiuk at third […]
Joey Payeur With or without an accompanying soundtrack, Max Williams is dangerous in a short-handed situation. Williams lit the lamp twice while the Muskie boys’ hockey team was a man down as part of Fort High’s 9-0 shutout of the visiting Kenora Broncos in NorWOSSA action Tuesday night. The Muskies’ […]
Staff Just call her Maggie the Magnificent. Maggie Jean set a new one-game scoring record with seven goals to help the Boston Pizza Ball Blasters to a 15-2 romp over the U15 Borderland Lightning in Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer action last night. Jean now has a league-high 11 goals in […]
Staff With its first big tournament of the season looming this weekend, the Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association provided plenty of exciting action over the past week. Fort Frances Novice Lions Club edged the Emo Express 2-1 last Thursday (Jan. 29). Jersey Rose and Hayden Allam scored for the Fort […]
Staff A hot shooting night by its ace scorer almost wasn’t enough for La Place Rendez-Vous. Josh Mastin drained 52 points—and his team needed almost every one of them in the end as the Vous hung on for a 100-97 victory over Taggs in Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action […]
