Staff The Rainy River Community College Voyageurs women’s hockey team will be heading back to defend their ACHA Division II national title. The squad will head to Wooster, Ohio next month after being seeded second in the final West region rankings of the season. The Voyageurs, who also won the […]
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Lucas Punkari The 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts officially gets underway tomorrow in Red Deer, Alta. for Tracy Horgan’s Sudbury rink, which features Devlin native and former Muskie Jenna Enge at second, when Team Ontario opens round-robin play against P.E.I.’s Kim Dolan. However, as Enge can attest, the last couple […]
Staff The Fort Frances Lakers started their final road trip of the regular season on a winning note last night in Chisholm, Mn., where they throttled the host Iron Range Ironheads 10-3. Jaret Leclair, Henry Gutierrez, and Davis Smith combined for 16 points in the game. Gutierrez led the way […]
Staff A hat trick by Grade 9 forward Kaily Greengrass sparked the Muskie girls’ hockey team to a 4-2 victory over the Red Lake Rams here yesterday afternoon. Shelby Tymkin had the other goal for the black-and-gold, who outshot the Rams by a whopping 58-18 margin. It was a nice […]
Lucas Punkari It was a successful day for Muskie athletics here Wednesday as three of the four court teams captured NorWOSSA gold. The biggest surprise came in the junior girls’ volleyball final as the black-and-gold upset the Eagles 27-29, 25-20, 27-25, and 25-15 to snap Dryden’s seven-year hold on the […]
Lucas Punkari After notching 19 goals in their final two games of the NorWOSSA regular season, the Muskie boys’ hockey team is firing on all eight cylinders heading into its annual exhibition clash with the International Falls Broncos here this Friday. “We’re feeling pretty good going into this game, especially […]
Lucas Punkari One game. That’s all that stands between the Muskie boys’ basketball teams and NorWOSSA gold. Both squads earned byes to their respective finals today at Fort High thanks to first-place finishes during the regular season, with both awaiting the winners of this morning’s semi-final clashes between the Kenora […]
Staff It’s an historic edition of the annual Wesley Derksen LL.B. squash tournament for the Sunset Country Squash Club this weekend as this year marks the 25th anniversary of the event. “From everyone that I’ve been talking to, they have all been saying how time is just flying by,” said […]
Staff A number of local hockey teams made their presence felt in out-of-town tournaments over the last couple of weeks. The Fort Frances Leafs Bantam girls’ competive team beat the Stonewall Blues 4-1 to nab the silver medal at a girls’ 14U tournament in Crookston, Mn. this past weekend. Jessica […]
the MNR Three Dryden residents have been fined a total of $4,200 for illegal moose hunting. Edward Smith was fined $2,600 for shooting a moose from a road and being in possession of illegally-killed wildlife. He is banned from hunting in Ontario for two years, and the moose was forfeited […]
Lucas Punkari With an afternoon showdown today against the Red Lake Rams, then a trip there this Friday night, coming on the heels of a game here last night against the Dryden Eagles, the Muskie girls’ hockey team is coming to the end of the NorWOSSA regular season. But that […]
Staff The most feared team in any Jr. Gold hockey tournament in Minnesota of late has to be the Fort Frances Canadians Midget ‘AA’ squad. After suffering a pair of round-robin losses at a tournament in Wayzata last month, the Canadians have rattled off 16-straight wins en route to three-straight […]
