Press Release The Sunset Country Squash Club attended possibly its earliest junior tournament to date, which ran Oct. 1-3 at the Winnipeg Squash Racquet Club. The team experienced mixed results as not everyone was in peak condition so early in the season. Fortunately, a few sore bodies and pulled muscles […]
Local Sports
Dan Falloon The top goalie for the Fort Frances Lakers so far this season hasn’t been reigning SIJHL goalie-of-the-year Jameson Shortreed. Shortreed hasn’t played poorly by any stretch, but the 17-year-old is coming off a rough outing in the Lakers’ 5-4 loss in Sioux Lookout on Friday night, getting blitzed […]
Dan Falloon There’s something to be said for coming through in the clutch. The Muskie golf team did just that—blowing the competition out of the water at the NWOSSAA championship in Geraldton last Thursday, winding up with a total score of 308 on the day, 14 shots better than second-place […]
Dan Falloon Three local hockey players have taken on some dramatically different roles with the Thunder Bay Kings so far this season. Defenceman Jon Carlson and forwards Donovan Cousineau and Bryce Knapp all are part of the Kings’ Major Midget ‘AAA’ roster, but each one brings something different to the […]
Dan Falloon A pair of junior Muskie runners made inroads at the first cross-country meet of the season last Wednesday in Kenora. Racing in the late-September sunshine, ninth-graders Jack Hamilton and Dante Tookenay finished third and fourth, respectively. Hamilton wrapped up the 5.2-km race in 23:08, with Tookenay right behind […]
Dan Falloon The scoresheet doesn’t always show everything as the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team learned at a tournament in Dryden over the weekend. Although the black-and-gold finished with a 1-2 record, head coach Ian Simpson noted the two losses were to the top teams in Thunder Bay—St. Ignatius and […]
Dan Falloon Three points are all that separates Fort High from the top half of the WHSFL’s Currie Division. A failed conversion proved to be the difference in the Muskies’ 14-13 loss to the Stonewall Rams here Friday—one week after a failed two-point conversion was the difference in a 24-22 […]
Dan Falloon The Lakers have taken advantage of a favourable home schedule to start the 2010-11 season. The local Junior ‘A’ squad has won four of five games in the friendly confines of the Ice For Kids Arena after edging Dryden 3-2 last Tuesday night and then blanking Sioux Lookout […]
Staff Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie Tyler Ampe has a souvenir after only three weeks in the SIJHL. Ampe was named the Pizza Hut SIJHL player-of-the-week after recording a 2-0 mark in three appearances this past week, posting a 0.87 GAA and .970 save percentage in those games. The soon-to-be 19-year-old […]
Staff Another weekend, another split of a home-and-home series for the Fort Frances Lakers (4-3). The local Junior ‘A’ squad faced its second doubleheader in as many weekends, this time dropping a 5-4 match-up to the host Sioux Lookout Flyers (2-5) on Friday night before returning home and earning a […]
Staff Well, at least they’ve been competitive. That’s the biggest thing that can be said for Fort High’s football team, which is coming off a pair of disappointing losses at Muskie Field. The black-and-gold (1-3) now have dropped two-straight games in front of the home faithful, but the combined margin […]
Staff Local driver Steve Arpin is looking to finish the ARCA season strong. He certainly did that in his second-last race of the year, cruising to a second-place finish yesterday at the ARCA Kansas Lottery 150 at Kansas Speedway. According to ARCA’s website, 18-year-old Ty Dillon passed Arpin with five […]
