Joey Payeur The Muskie boys’ hockey team isn’t done dancing to the piper’s tune just yet. Fort High blanked the Garden City Gophers (Winnipeg) 6-0 this morning to finish in second place in Pool ‘C’ at the fifth-annual Boston Pizza Piper Classic High School Hockey Tournament there. That puts the […]
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Joey Payeur Isaac Keffer is proving to be one cool customer on the ice. The former Muskie, who now plays out of the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay, improved to 2-1 by doubling clubmate Matthew Smith 8-4 in eight ends at the Northern Ontario junior men’s provincial curling […]
Joey Payeur When the Fort Frances Lakers return to action tonight, they’ll have to keep their heads up—not only for their opponents but for an extra man wearing stripes. After a 12-day Christmas break, the SIJHL resumes with three games on the slate, including the Lakers in Ear Falls to […]
Joey Payeur The Muskie girls’ hockey team didn’t end 2013 on a winning note, but had a much happier start to the New Year. Amy Penner set up Shilo Beck for the equalizer in the third period, then netted the game-winner almost three minutes later, as the black-and-gold rallied from […]
Joey Payeur With a new year just around the corner, it’s intriguing to look back at the old year and see just how many new additions there were to the sporting landscape in Rainy River District. From the first-time champions of Fort Frances’ premiere summertime event to the rebirth of […]
Bob Tkachuk Once again the 26th-annual Boxing Day Squash Tournament was full with 24 players. For the first time a female played in the tourney with great results. Sunset Country Squash Clubs ex-junior, 16-year-old Anika Alexander, now training in Winnipeg, made it to the semis, defeating Jeff Gustafson 2-1, her […]
Joey Payeur One of the DLM Line’s mainstays was the main man in the SIJHL just before the holiday break. Fort Frances Lakers forward Lyndon Lipinski earned the final Pizza Hut player of the week award for 2013 after racking up 11 points in three Laker wins before league action […]
Joey Payeur You win some, you lose some and you lose some others really painfully. The Muskies boys hockey team surrendered 2-0 and 5-2 leads before eventually falling 7-6 in overtime to the Achiever Academy Aces from Minneapolis/St. Paul in the last of its three games at the Ralph Engelstad […]
Staff Boxing Day turned out to be a punch in the jaw for the Muskie boys hockey team. The black-and-gold lost 3-1 yesterday to the Crookston (Minn.) Pirates in Fort Frances’ first game at the Ralph Engelstad Arena Classic in Thief River Falls, Minn. The Muskies broke out on top […]
Joey Payeur “Once a job has begun, Be it big, be it small, Do it well Or not at all.” Bruce McLeod’s tireless work ethic hearkens back to that little sign posted near his father’s workplace toolbox while he was a millwright at the local paper mill. “You don’t realize […]
Joey Payeur Molly Carlson viewed it as a glorified training session. The powers that be at Diving Canada had other ideas—and their intuition proved correct. The 15-year-old Fort Frances native, who now calls Thunder Bay home, placed second in the women’s Group ‘A’ (age 16-18) 3m springboard finals at the […]
Joey Payeur Silver Bay, Silver Bay, it’s Muskie time in your city. The Silver Bay (Mn.) Mariners got to experience the tidal wave of Muskie power that has swept over the NorWOSSA circuit so far this season, losing 8-3 to the black-and-gold in an exhibition game there Saturday. “We got […]
