Staff The Fort Frances Lakers became the first team to beat the Minnesota Wilderness at the Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet, winning 4-3 last night for their third-straight triumph. Trailing 1-0 late in the first period, Lakers’ forwards Colton Spicer and Jacob Nolan scored in a 23-second span early […]
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Staff For the first time this season, all four Muskie court teams came away with victories on the same day Tuesday afternoon in Kenora. Leading the charge was the senior girls’ basketball team, which earned its first win of the NorWOSSA season by beating the host Broncos 22-17. The junior […]
Staff Two members of the Muskie cross-country running team will be off to the all-Ontarios next weekend after earning top-five finishes at the NWOSSAA championships yesterday in Thunder Bay. Grade 9 student Sydney Radigan captured second place in the Midget division with a time of 14:00.55, which had her 33 […]
Lucas Punkari The Fort Frances Aquanauts kicked off the 2012-13 swimming season with a bang as they hosted five other teams during the annual Boston Pizza Fall Frolic Invitational over the weekend at the Memorial Sports Centre. “Our returning people had a number of personal bests, and that will allows […]
Lucas Punkari The Muskie football team seemingly has a daunting task in front of it in the quarter-finals of the WHSFL’s Andy Currie ‘A’ Division this Friday, when the black-and-gold will travel to Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg to face the first-place Steinbach Sabres at 3 p.m. But head coach […]
Lucas Punkari It may not strike the same fear NHL teams had back in the day when they would visit the Spectrum in Philadelphia to take on the “Broad Street Bullies.” But the rest of the SIJHL quickly is finding out that the Ice For Kids Arena is a tough […]
Lucas Punkari When the NorWOSSA boys’ volleyball season gets underway each fall, the team that’s always the one everyone is gunning to beat is the Dryden Eagles, who have dominated the three-team loop on multiple occasions. Last Thursday afternoon at the Fort High gym, both Muskie squads pushed the perennial […]
Lucas Punkari A week after falling to the Rainy River Owls in the final of their own tournament at Fort High, the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team reached the top of the mountain Saturday night in Thunder Bay. Competing against the host Westgate Tigers in the championship game, the black-and-gold […]
Staff The Fort Frances Canadians PeeWee ‘AA’ team has a case of the morning blues. After being blanked 4-0 by the Sioux Lookout Flyers in Dryden back on Oct. 13, the Canadians dropped another early game there this past Saturday as they fell 5-4 to the Kenora Thistles. James Gushulak, […]
Lucas Punkari The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team also was in Thunder Bay last weekend for a tournament hosted by the Winston Churchill Trojans, with the black-and-gold sharing the consolation title with Dryden. “We were in a position where both us and Dryden would have played in the consolation final, […]
Lucas Punkari The record books will show that the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs had a win and a loss against the Iowa State Cyclones at Kerry Park Arena in International Falls over the weekend to start their 2012-13 ACHA women’s hockey season. But for head coach Evan Amdahl, the […]
Lucas Punkari This past weekend not only marked the official start of the 2012-13 regular season for the Bemidji State Beavers men’s hockey team, it also meant Fort Frances native Mitch Cain got the chance to hit the ice once again at the Sanford Center. Cain, 21, played on the […]
