Joey Payeur Cole Tymkin may be the youngest player on the Muskie boys’ hockey team but he certainly hasn’t played like it so far. The lone Grade 9 donning the black-and-gold this season looked like a seasoned veteran Tuesday night, scoring the game-winner as part of a natural hat trick […]
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Joey Payeur Tanner Fricke decided this was no time for a losing streak and figured ending someone else’s winning run suited him just fine. Fricke scored twice in regulation time, then netted the winning goal in the fourth round of the shootout, to lift the Fort Frances Lakers to a […]
Joey Payeur A sharpened supply of Sabres used a third-period surge to slice the Muskie boys’ hockey team’s thoughts of a tournament title to shreds. Fort High led 3-2 after two periods but gave up three unanswered goals in the third to fall 5-3 to the Steinbach Sabres in the […]
Joey Payeur Skai McLean unleashed the bullet, then celebrated Teemu Selanne-style by machine-gunning the air with his hockey stick. He might as well have been shooting down the medal hopes of the Fort Frances Bantam ‘AA’ Canadians. McLean’s rocket blast off the post and into the net 1:25 into the […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers are on such a roll, they didn’t even have to play last week to gain even more national prominence. The squad’s 10-day break from SIJHL play didn’t prevent them from moving up one spot for the fourth-consecutive week to reach No. 2 in the […]
Joey Payeur Instead of tears of frustration at not moving forward, there only were smiles on the faces of the vanquished hometown heroes as they savoured all they did achieve this season. The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team was overwhelmed by the Hammarskjold Vikings, who dumped the host black-and-gold 45-10 […]
Staff It was a fast start but forgettable finish for Kathie Jackson. The Fort Frances skip and her Northern Ontario rink of third Teresa McFayden, second Lisa Penner, and lead Kris Sinclair fell 7-4 last night to Stacey Fordyce of Manitoba in their opening game in the Grey Pool at […]
Joey Payeur Now ranked second in the country and riding a 15-game winning streak, the Fort Frances Lakers have been the farthest thing from a gong show so far this season. But that didn’t prevent Lakers’ forward Lucas DeBenedet from being named Friday as the inaugural Gongshow Gear performer-of-the-month for […]
Staff It wasn’t the colour they wanted but Jess Caul and her teammates didn’t come home empty-handed from the “Sunshine State.” The Providence University College Pilots, from Otterburne, Man., doubled the Cairn University Highlanders (Langhorne, Penn.) 4-2 on Saturday to claim the bronze medal at the National Christian College Athletic […]
Joey Payeur With her tongue hanging out as she drove the lane, Aliisa Heiskanen evoked memories of Michael Jordan in his prime. Judging by her ability to fill the net, the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team might have preferred to take its chances on stopping “Air Jordan” instead. Heiskanen was […]
Joey Payeur The dream of bringing a U.S. college title home to Canadian soil is over for Jess Caul. The Fort Frances native and her top-ranked Providence University College Pilots squad from Otterburne, Man. were blanked 4-0 yesterday by fourth-seeded Bob Jones University Bruins (Greenville, S.C.) at the National Christian […]
Joey Payeur The boys’ hockey rivalry between the Muskies and Dryden Eagles may be taking an unscheduled year off. Because, as the theory goes, it’s not a rivalry if one team always is beating the other to a pulp. The Muskies shook off a winless weekend to annihilate the host […]
