Lucas Punkari After finishing up a pre-season tournament in Thunder Bay with a 2-2 record, Muskie senior girls’ head coach Dan Bird was pleased with the overall play of his team, but felt that some valuable lessons were gained by his troops heading into the NorWOSSA campaign. “We played four […]
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Lucas Punkari With the lineup set in stone for the 2012/13 NorWOSSA campaign, Muskie girls’ hockey head coach Scott Clendenning feels that those that come out to see the team play this year will be impressed by what they see. “I think people are going to be quite pleased,” Clendenning […]
Lucas Punkari A trifecta of golfers from the Fort High boys’ golf team will be making their way up to Kenora next Thursday to compete at the NWOSSA championships as a result of their strong showings at the NorWOSSA qualifier in Sioux Lookout on Monday. Leading the charge for the […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers concluded their SIJHL exhibition schedule without a win to their name this weekend, after they lost both ends of a home-and-home series to the Minnesota Wilderness. In what was the first meeting for both teams since their best-of-seven series for the Bill Salonen Cup back […]
The Fort High football team picked up their first win of the WHSFL season on Friday afternoon in Dryden, as they defeated the host Eagles by a score of 20-6. Leading the way for the Muskies, who improved to 1-1 for the season, was running back Cam Gobeil who rushed […]
Lucas Punkari After putting things together at the last minute to start the NorWOSSA golf season a week prior in Dryden, the Fort High golf team have started to get into the swing of things. A five-man team took to the nine-hole Little Falls Golf Course in Atikokan on Tuesday, […]
Lucas Punkari As the 2012 season at the Emo Speedway came to a close Saturday night, Borderland Racing Association president Anthony Leek was pleased with how the year went as a whole. “Overall, I would say that this season was a very good one as we had some really exciting […]
Staff While the process of getting everything ready was done practically at the last minute, the opening NorWOSSA tournament for the Muskie golf squad last Wednesday in Dryden went according to plan. “We only had three guys going up to the event, but that was because we had one guy […]
Lucas Punkari With a goal of finishing in the top three, local resident Luke Skaarup accomplished just that over the weekend with a third-place finish at the Dubreuilville Pro Strongman event. Skaarup, who goes by the nickname “The Iron Viking,” finished the two-day event with 80.5 points, which left him […]
Lucas Punkari The Fort Frances Curling Club will hold its annual registration night there this Monday (Sept. 17) starting at 7 p.m. “The registration fees will be the same as they were last year, so we are encouraging everyone to come on out and register on Monday,” said Ron Silver, […]
Lucas Punkari While a seven-point loss to last year’s Andy Currie ‘A’ Division runner-ups certainly is nothing to sneeze at, Muskie football head coach Chad Canfield felt like his team had let an opportunity slip away here Friday afternoon. In what proved to be a tightly-contested affair, the Elmwood Giants […]
Lucas Punkari Although his team was on the losing end of a pair of exhibition contests against the Dryden Ice Dogs over the weekend, Fort Frances Lakers’ head coach and general manager Wayne Strachan felt the squad gained some valuable knowledge they’ll use to build towards the start of the […]
