Staff The Muskie boys’ hockey team and the Kenora Broncos clashed in last season’s NorWOSSA final. On Tuesday night, only one of them looked to be a serious finalist possibility for this season. Graeme Kitt and Jarred Taylor each netted a pair of goals, and Dylan Ossachuk earned the shutout, […]
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Staff There’s no more room for error. The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team opened the OFSAA ‘AA’ championships with a 2-0 loss (25-18/25-16) to Ecole secondaire catholique Franco-Cité Falcons (Ottawa) in their best-of-three match in Pool ‘B’ action this morning in Dryden. “It took a while for the boys to […]
Joey Payeur A title in the hand was worth three from the Busch. Jon Busch collected a hat trick to pace the Fort Frances Bantam ‘AA’ Canadians to a 4-2 win over the Norwest Stars (Thunder Bay) in the championship game of the Canadians’ annual home tournament on Sunday at […]
Joey Payeur No doubt about it—the Muskie girls hockey team prefers Canadian Warriors over the American variety. Annalise Hayes kicked off her NorWOSSA career in grand style with six goals and seven points to pace the Muskies to a 13-1 demolition of the Queen Elizabeth Warriors in the two teams’ […]
Joey Payeur It wasn’t anything an opposing coach really wants to see. But Dan Bird also knew it was a golden opportunity for his team—one on which, as it turned out, they could not capitalize. The Hammarskjold Vikings overcame the loss of their top player, centre Aliisa Heiskanen, early in […]
Joey Payeur After suffering through the torture of having a front row seat to the evaporation of their title hopes, the Providence University College Pilots decided coming home empty-handed was not in the cards for them. Julika Kehler scored twice and Fort Frances native Jess Caul set up the game-clinching […]
Joey Payeur Henry Geyshick had only one train of thought running through his head with his team running out of chances to put away its opponents and avoid a one-set, winner-take-all scenario. “I knew we were only one point away . . . I told myself I have to smack […]
Staff Those women wanting to get their kicks this winter need to be at the Memorial Sports Centre tomorrow night. The Borderland Women’s Indoor Soccer League will hold its registration from 6-8 p.m. in the atrium of the Sportsplex. The league is hoping to draw enough interest to make six […]
Staff A different year meant the same result for Jess Caul. The Fort Frances native had one assist in helping the Providence University College Pilots (Otterburne, Man.) blank the Ohio Christian University Traiblazers (Circleville, Ohio) by a 4-0 margin in the bronze-medal game of the National Christian Colleges Athletic Association […]
Staff The Muskie boys hockey team found gold amid the snow-covered wheatfields of Manitoba this past weekend. Fort Frances captured the Morden Thunder Boys tournament in Morden, Man., by whitewashing the Crocus Plains Plainsmen (Brandon) 9-0 in the championship final. Defence was the name of the game for the black-and-gold […]
Joey Payeur From 1-7 to one unbelievable ride—and it’s not over yet. The Muskie senior boys volleyball team is heading to Dryden to take on the best in the province after besting the St. Iganatius Falcons 2-1 in their best-of-three NWOSSAA championship series at Fort High this past weekend. Fort […]
Staff Staff Now that’s the power-play Fort Frances Lakers fans came to know and love last year. The Lakers were a red-hot 4-for-6 with the man-advantage to boost themselves to a 5-3 win over the English River Miners in SIJHL action in Ear Falls on Saturday. Fort Frances (14-5-1) moved […]
