Lucas Punkari After two years of heart-breaking losses in the NWOSSAA playoffs, the excitement for the Muskie boys’ basketball team was clear to see Saturday morning in their home gym. The black-and-gold were all smiles (or in the case of Gavin Moorhouse, jumping around the court in delight) after they […]
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Lucas Punkari Even though Team Ontario finished up the Scotties Tournament of Hearts with a 4-7 record, the opportunity to compete at the national women’s curling championship was one Devlin native and former Muskie Jenna Enge will never forget. Enge, who now lives in Thunder Bay and plays second for […]
Lucas Punkari Having won their last three regular-season games while setting a franchise high win total with 37, it would be easy for the Fort Frances Lakers to rest on their laurels heading into the playoffs. But with a pair of two-game, total-goal mini-series against the league champion Wisconsin Wilderness […]
Staff Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie Tanner Hamilton was named the SIJHL’s player-of-the-week yesterday. The 20-year-old native of Saskatoon got the start between the pipes for the last three games of the Lakers’ regular season when starter Tyler Ampe was forced to the sidelines due to a suspension. Hamilton made the […]
Lucas Punkari Advance to all-Ontarios The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team is headed to the all-Ontarios for the first time since 2001. The black-and-gold captured the NWOSSAA crown here Saturday morning after sweeping the Thunder Bay champion Winston Churchill Trojans in the best-of-three showdown. “Our goal at the start of […]
Staff The Muskie boys’ hockey team is heading back to the NorWOSSA final after sweeping the Dryden Eagles in their best-of-three semi-final series over the weekend. The black-and-gold wrapped up the series yesterday afternoon with a 3-1 victory in Dryden, thanks to a pair of goals by Braden Webb and […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers concluded their regular season on a winning note Saturday night with a 4-3 victory over the visiting Thunder Bay North Stars. With overtime looming, Lakers’ forward Henry Gutierrez took a feed from captain Blake Boaz and slid the puck past North Stars’ goalie Carter McEachern […]
Staff The Judy LaBelle rink from Fort Frances had mixed results yesterday during the opening day of action at the Northern Ontario senior women’s provincial playdowns in Kapuskasing. LaBelle, who is joined by third Wendy Brunetta, second Maureen Thomson, and lead Trudy Badiuk, fell 9-5 to Marion Clark (Thunder Bay) […]
Staff Fort Frances Lakers’ forward Byron Katapaytuk is the recipient of the SIJHL Pizza Hut Player-of-the-Year award, the league announced this morning. The 20-year-old from Moose Factory leads the SIJHL in scoring with 83 points (32 goals/51 assists) heading into the Lakers’ final game of the regular season tomorrow night […]
Lucas Punkari The Sioux Lookout Flyers have given the Fort Frances Lakers fits throughout the 2011-12 regular season. But the Lakers had no such trouble with the Flyers here last night, skating away with a 4-2 victory in their penultimate contest before the playoffs. After falling behind 2-1 late in […]
Staff It’s a must-win situation for the Muskie girls’ hockey team tonight in Red Lake. The black-and-gold are in a single-elimination quarter-final game with the Rams, with the winner advancing to face the first-place Dryden Eagles in the best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-finals. The teams originally were scheduled to square off Tuesday […]
Heather Latter It might be a game typically played by kids on a playground or in gym class, but dodgeball recently has emerged as a popular adult sport and a local couple has taken the initiative to start up a weekly league here. “We decided to do it out of […]
