Press Release Eleven members of the Northwest Taekwondo Club attended the Can-Am Games tournament in Winnipeg on Saturday. The tournament was hosted by Kang’s Academy and held at the University of Manitoba. Competition came from Minnesota, Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta. Students competed in forms and full-contact fighting (head and chest […]

Dan Falloon Staff writer When talking about the strength coaches whose methods he follows, Terry McMahon lauded them for their tendencies to not pull punches. And the local strength coach followed up on that admiration, taking on a couple of commonly-held training exercises and suggesting alternatives as the weather warms […]

Dan Falloon The Muskie track team has boosted its numbers once again—jumping from a dozen athletes in 2009 to 15 this year. The extra competitors aren’t the result of an unusually large influx of juniors, but actually senior students who decided to give track and field a shot. “I would […]

Dan Falloon Last year’s trip to the all-Ontarios opened the eyes of the Muskie girls’ soccer team. The black-and-gold—gunning to make their third-straight OFSAA appearance—are looking to improve on last year’s showing in Kenora, where they were hit hard by injuries and lost all three games. “We played well at […]

Dan Falloon The Muskie boys’ soccer website posed a question to all of the returning players over the winter. The page asked players what they were doing that day to help the team defend its NorWOSSA crown. Talk about driven. The black-and-gold, coached by Shane Beckett, are confident about a […]

Dan Falloon There’s a new standard for local squash players on the national level. Angel McCormack bookended three wins at the Canadian Junior Squash Championships in Calgary last week with losses to Hannah Treleaven, including a tight 3-1 setback in the best-of-five girls’ under-13 consolation final. All three set losses […]

Staff The Fort Frances Lakers are in the red after their first season of operation in the SIJHL, but team brass is confident the club will be in a better financial position at this time next year. At the team’s annual general meeting Monday night at the Memorial Sports Centre, […]

Dan Falloon Steve Arpin had to be a gamblin’ man at Talladega over the weekend. The Fort Frances native channelled thoughts from a fellow driver as he took to the superspeedway in Alabama for a pair of races this past weekend, including his debut in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series. “Kevin Harvick […]

Dan Falloon Three Muskie badminton players have reason to strut on the way to Stratford next week. Rory Bagacki captured the senior boys’ singles title at the NWOSSAA championships in Atikokan on Monday, and the senior girls’ doubles team of Kimika Alexander and Chelsea Carlson earned a first-place showing in […]

Staff Three Muskie badminton players are Stratford-bound. Rory Bagacki captured the senior boys’ singles title at the NWOSSAA championships in Atikokan yesterday. Meanwhile, the senior girls’ doubles team of Kimika Alexander and Chelsea Carlson earned a first-place showing in their division, meaning all three will be competing at the all-Ontarios […]

Staff Angel McCormack just couldn’t shake Hannah Treleaven. The local player bookended three wins at the Canadian Junior Squash Championships in Calgary with losses to Treleaven, including a tight 3-0 setback (11-9, 11-9, and 11-9) in the best-of-five girls’ under-13 consolation final. After falling 11-6, 11-4, and 11-6 to Treleaven […]

Staff You can’t win ’em all. Fort Frances driver Steve Arpin found that out over the weekend, having his two-race winning streak on the ARCA circuit snapped with a 14th-place finish at the Talladega ARCA 250 on Friday night. He then finished 26th in the Aaron’s 312 in his Nationwide […]