Joey Payeur The road trip has been so enjoyable the previous two times, Dougie deBernardeaux is bringing plenty of friends to share it with this time around. The starting running back for the Muskie football team will be attending the North Dakota State University Bison high school football camp in […]
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Staff An unscathed loss column with just two games left in the regular season have both Muskie soccer teams in high spirits. The Muskie boys (4-0) clinched first place yesterday with a 5-1 victory over the Kenora Broncos (0-4) and then a 4-0 shutout of the host Dryden Eagles (2-2). […]
Staff It may have taken a while for the ice to come out of Rainy Lake. But the bats of the Fort Frances Herricanes were fully thawed last night. The squad exploded for eight runs in the fourth inning to bust open a 4-4 tie en route to a 17-10 […]
Joey Payeur Even with their workload purposely limited, the Muskie girls’ and boys’ track-and-field teams made quite an impression in Dryden last Thursday. Both crews finished second overall in their respective divisions at the Dryden High School Track and Field Invitational meet. The girls finished with 75 points, trailing only […]
Joey Payeur Young ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. On the heels of what seemed like an eternal winter, Borderland Kart Racing is ready to hit the track this Sunday at 2 p.m. for its season-opening races at the Emo Speedway. “The go-kart drivers are definitely excited to start racing […]
Staff Motorheads who can’t wait until Saturday night to see some four-wheeled racing action at the Emo Speedway can get their fix of the two-wheeled variety elsewhere in Emo that morning. The new Superior Dirt Riders’ racing season will reach top gear for the first time this year at the […]
Joey Payeur There’s a new sheriff in town and her town just experienced a population boom. Candy Teeple’s first season as president of the Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League will be an eventful one, with the 2014 campaign that kicks off tonight to feature twice as many teams as […]
Staff Twin brothers Lyndon and Bryce Lipinski will share a dressing room yet again this fall. It was announced yesterday that the former Fort Frances Lakers’ forwards have committed to play this upcoming season with the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Minot State University Beavers in Minot, N.D. The Grande Prairie, […]
The Canadian PressLarry Millson TORONTO—Starting pitcher J.A. Happ and catcher Erik Kratz had a plan. The left-hander came through with six solid innings and, with two home runs and three RBIs from Edwin Encarnacion, the Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Indians 4-2 last night. Happ (2-1) allowed six hits, two […]
Joey Payeur For as much as Wayne Strachan has accomplished in his hockey coaching career, it would be logical to think picking a favourite one would be difficult. But mention this past season manning the bench for the Fort Frances Lakers, as they won their first SIJHL title, and the […]
Joey Payeur If the Muskie boys’ soccer team was a horse, it would be known as one mean mudder. The black-and-gold left their opponents floundering in the rain at the Struchan Gilson Memorial soccer fields Monday as they opened defence of their three-straight NorWOSSA crowns with a pair of 3-0 […]
Joey Payeur If ties are like kissing one’s sister, there was plenty of sibling love being shown Monday at the Struchan Gilson Memorial soccer field. Then the Muskie girls’ soccer team balled up its collective fist and laid a smack of a different kind on the lips of the Dryden […]
