Staff At this rate, there won’t be any more rungs to climb in two more weeks. For the fourth-straight week, the Fort Frances Lakers achieved a new all-time best position in the Canadian Junior ‘A’ Hockey League top 20 rankings, moving up one notch for the third week in a […]
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Staff Instead of a nighttime showdown, the Muskies senior girls’ basketball team will count on some matinee magic in its initial test against the best Thunder Bay has to offer. The start time for Game 1 of the best-of-three NWOSSAA showdown between the Muskies and Hammarskjold Vikings, originally scheduled for […]
Joey Payeur A different brand of Canadian snowbirds are in full flight towards a U.S. college championship. The top-seeded Providence University College Pilots from Otterburne, Man., and featuring Fort Frances native Jess Caul at striker, earned a 2-1 victory over fifth-ranked Ohio Christian University Trailblazers yesterday in their opening game […]
Joey Payeur If a team’s going to lose, it might as well be creative about it. The Muskie boys’ hockey team pulled off a dubious hat trick in getting swept by the Thunder Bay Minor Midget Kings in a three-game exhibition series split between Atikokan and the new Couchiching arena. […]
Joey Payeur All things being equal (or, in this case, all rinks), Kathie Jackson likes her team’s chances. Jackson will skip an all-Fort Frances rink—featuring third Teresa McFayden, second Lisa Penner, and lead Kris Sinclair—at the Dominion Curling Club Championships at the Fort William Curling Club in Thunder Bay beginning […]
Joey Payeur The Fort Frances Lakers are in the midst of a 10-day break away from competition. The rest of the SIJHL just breathed a sigh of relief. The Lakers (16-1-0-1) bulldozed their way to their 15th-straight win with a 5-2 triumph over the host Dryden Ice Dogs (9-12) on […]
Joey Payeur Being interviewed after the game almost was as painful for Lindsay Dixon as trying to stop her was for the Dryden Eagles. The formidable power forward netted 11 of her game-high 13 points in the first half to help the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team dump the host […]
Joey Payeur With the championship trophy back in their grasp, the five graduating seniors of the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team savoured another in a long list of title victories. But this one—the last to bear the NorWOSSA brand—was just a little more special. The Muskies throttled the Kenora Broncos […]
Joey Payeur Fifteen wins in a row, 10 days off, one happy first-place team. That sums up the Fort Frances Lakers after they completed a home-and-home sweep of the Dryden Ice Dogs with a 5-2 win there Saturday night. “I think the break is welcomed by the team,” head coach […]
Joey Payeur The Muskie senior and junior girls’ basketball teams made themselves right at home in the “Eagles’ Nest” on Friday—and took some gold with them when it was time to leave. The seniors put a defensive stranglehold on the Kenora Broncos in the second half to fuel a 44-26 […]
Staff The road to Sochi is closed for one local curler and heading through a dangerous intersection for another. Former Muskie Tirzah Keffer never got a chance to get into the action as the fifth for Thunder Bay’s Krista McCarville, who was eliminated last night in a 10-3 loss to […]
Staff A pair of district curling products are fighting their way towards a possible winter excursion overseas to be part of the world’s largest international sporting event. Devlin native Jenna Enge, playing second for Sudbury’s Tracy Horgan, and Tirzah Keffer of Fort Frances, the fifth for Thunder Bay’s Krista McCarville, […]
