Staff The Sioux Lookout Warriors couldn’t escape the wrath of Muskie hockey no matter where they went. The Muskie girls routed the Warriors 15-0 here last night while the boys’ crew laid an 11-1 whipping on their hosts up in Sioux Lookout. It was a firing range here as the […]
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Staff Caleb McIntosh and Cole Edwards proved too much for the Kenora Broncos to handle. The pair each scored 19 points to spark the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team to a 65-22 rout in NorWOSSA action there yesterday. Fort High (4-2) maintained its hold on first place with the win […]
Joey Payeur By all rights, the Fort Frances Lakers should have been out of the game three periods earlier. So it was probably justice that the Minnesota Iron Rangers pulled out a 2-1 overtime victory Tuesday night in Hoyt Lakes. Austin Frank scored at 3:53 of the extra session to […]
Joey Payeur After being blanked by their cross-border rivals less than 24 hours earlier, the Muskie girls’ hockey team was working with a short fuse. The Kenora Broncos provided the match yesterday—and the result was an offensive explosion. Shelby Tymkin racked up five goals to pace Fort High to a […]
Staff Jeff Watts once again led the Fort Frances contingent of bowlers vying for a trip to the Northern Ontario Open championship later this spring in Timmins. Watts totalled 5,228 over 20 games (a 261 average) to finish second overall among the men at the zone roll-offs over the weekend […]
Joey Payeur Chris Silver saved himself a boatload of grief. The Fort High third, playing skip for the boys’ team in relief of a resting Reece Jones for the final game of the NorWOSSA qualifier here yesterday, found himself on the cusp of posting the only Muskie defeat of the […]
Joey Payeur The Arctic temperatures are not cooling a late push to have Fort Frances deemed Canada’s hockey centre. The town’s home site on the “Kraft Hockeyville” 2014 website (krafthockeyville.cbc.ca) had a total of 35 members and 40 video uploads as of yesterday morning. By local bid organizer Jonathan Glueheisen’s […]
Staff Ryan Faragher is riding a five-star wave being churned up by his fans in an effort to be named America’s best college hockey player. The Fort Frances native and starting goalie for the NCAA Division I St. Cloud State (Minn.) Huskies has moved into first place among the 68 […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers decided it was time to remind the Thunder Bay North Stars who currently is in charge of the SIJHL. Cody Wickstrom scored a power-play goal with 2:19 to go to help lift the visiting Lakers’ to a 6-4 victory Saturday night. Fort Frances (33-6-0-2) […]
Joey Payeur Chris Silver saved himself a boatload of grief. The Fort High third, playing skip for the boys’ team in relief of a resting Reece Jones for the final game of the NorWOSSA qualifier here yesterday, found himself on the cusp of posting the only Muskie defeat of the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers are moving on up—and their leading scorer’s efforts in making it happen earned him yet another accolade. Yesterday’s release of the latest top 20 rankings in the Canadian Junior ‘A’ Hockey League saw the Lakers (33-6-0-2) move up one notch to No. 6 from last […]
Staff In terms of statement games, this said a ton about the Fort Frances Lakers. Cody Wickstrom’s power-play goal with 2:19 to go lifted the Lakers to an eventual 6-4 victory over the host Thunder Bay North Stars on Saturday night. The North Stars (27-7-1-4) entered the game having beaten […]
