Staff After only two weeks of games, the SIJHL has lost one of its seven teams for the rest of the regular season. In a press release issued earlier today, the Sioux Lookout Flyers announced they were suspending operations after three of their games last week were cancelled due to […]
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Lucas Punkari At the start of the school year, Muskie golf head coach Brian Johnstone was running around trying to get everything set up to have the black-and-gold return to NorWOSSA competition. But after seeing three members of the team advance to the NWOSSAA championships at the Beauty Bay Golf […]
Lucas Punkari As far as first impressions go, it’s hard to imagine many that went better than the one the Fort Frances junior football team made in their debut Monday evening over in International Falls. Comprised of 30 players in Grades 7 and 8, the first-year squad had their way […]
Ken Johnston The weather was spectacular and so was the fishing for the 14th-annual Rainy River Walleye Tournament on Friday and Saturday. Only one team did not catch any fish on Day 1 while the vast majority—86 teams—weighed in four fish. Local teams dominated on Day 1. Early in the […]
Lucas Punkari For all of the strides the Muskie football program has made since Chad Canfield took over as head coach in 2010, the one achievement the team had yet to accomplish was a victory on home turf. That long-time goal finally was checked off last Tuesday afternoon in convincing […]
Lucas Punkari Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan is stressing patience as his team looks to dig its way out of a 0-3-0-0 start to the 2012-13 SIJHL season. “Obviously to not have a win yet is frustrating to all of us, but as a staff […]
Staff The start of the new Borderland Indoor Women’s Soccer League has been pushed back one week. The first set of games now is scheduled to take place Wednesday, Oct. 10 starting at 7 p.m. at the Fort High gym. The league originally was scheduled to get underway tomorrow night […]
Staff After playing a key role in helping the Muskie football team earn a long-awaited home win, running back Cam Gobeil was named the WHSFL offensive player of the week. Gobeil, who is in Grade 12 and playing his first year with the black-and-gold, dominated the Tec Voc Hornets last […]
Staff After holding practices for the past month, the Fort Frances junior football team will take to the field for the first time this afternoon against International Falls. Kick-off is at 5 p.m. at Bronco Stadium. “The boys are really excited to play, especially with the game being under the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers still are looking for their first win of the 2012/13 SIJHL season following a pair of weekend losses to the Minnesota Wilderness. In the first regular-season meeting between the two squads since their seven-game battle for the Bill Salonen Cup this past spring, the Wilderness […]
Staff After playing their home pre-season games in the ’52 Canadians Arena, the Fort Frances Lakers will hold their regular-season home-opener back in the friendly confines of the Ice For Kids Arena. With a new ice plant “chiller” being installed last week, it was expected that today’s 7:30 p.m. clash […]
Staff They failed to qualify for the all-Ontarios but Muskie golfers James Brown, Brandon Sinclair, and Abe Germain concluded their seasons on a positive note yesterday afternoon at the NWOSSAA championships in Kenora. “The boys had a decent day,” Muskie head coach Brian Johnstone said this morning. “They didn’t play […]
