Mitch Calvert The Muskie senior and junior girls’ basketball teams had their hands full when they returned home from tournaments in Thunder Bay on Sunday. Both teams nabbed silver medals. The seniors had opened with a 30-25 win over the host Churchill Trojans. “We generated a lot of turnovers off […]
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Mitch Calvert The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team is on some kind of roll. Perfect so far in NorWOSSA action, the black-and-gold carried that momentum into the annual “Pumpkin Smash” tournament in Dryden over the weekend en route to a gold-medal performance. Fort High split into two squads, with the […]
Mitch Calvert It is time. Time to put away the kid gloves and attempt to end a trying season on a high note. Time to forget about the 0-6 record and lengthy injury list, and simply lay it all on the line. The Muskie football team will conclude its WHSFL […]
Mitch Calvert The Fort Frances Lakers have separated themselves from most of the other teams in the SIJHL—but not in the right direction. Devlin’s Jordan Davis had a goal and an assist Saturday night as the red-hot Fort William North Stars (10-1) won 4-2 over the Lakers (2-7-2). Lakers’ goalie […]
Mitch Calvert The Fort Frances Lakers will be looking to notch their first home-ice win of the season tonight when they host the Fort William North Stars in the opener of a two-game series at the Ice For Kids Arena. The Lakers (2-5-2) lost 3-2 in overtime to the Dryden […]
Staff After a promising four-touchdown performance in a loss to Miles Mac here last Friday, the Muskie football team took a step backwards yesterday with a 41-6 defeat at the hands of the Tec Voc Hornets in Winnipeg. A general lack of execution in the red zone was the squad’s […]
Staff It was a mixed bag of results for the four Muskie court teams yesterday at the “Fish Tank.” The junior boys’ volleyball team ran their NorWOSSA record to a perfect 5-0 with a four-set win over the Dryden Eagles by scores of 25-17, 25-23, 9-25, and 26-24. The black-and-gold […]
Mitch Calvert Steve Arpin’s finish at Sunday’s ARCA RE/MAX American 200 circuit championship at the Rockingham Speedway summed up his first season on tour. The Fort Frances native led for a stretch of laps during the race, and was no worse than third at any point until a transmission failure […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team improved to a perfect 4-0 at the midway point of the NorWOSSA season with a four-set win over the Kenora Broncos here last Thursday. “We were missing one of our starters, so we had to move in one of our Grade 9s […]
Mitch Calvert The Muskie girls’ basketball teams both stretched their NorWOSSA records to 3-1 with wins over the Kenora Broncos last Thursday at the “Fish Tank.” The seniors continued their strong defensive play with a 29-24 win while the juniors dominated from start to finish in a 21-6 romp. The […]
Mitch Calvert The future of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship is in jeopardy unless four vacant director positions are filled by next week. That was the consensus reached by the remaining directors at a meeting last Wednesday evening. “Everything’s on hold at this point,” FFCBC chairman Tom Fry stressed. […]
Staff The Ministry of Natural Resources has provided a hunting forecast detailing what district hunters can expect for this season. Deer populations are in excellent shape across all Wildlife Management Units in Rainy River District, primarily due to the recent spell of mild winters. There have been no severe winters […]
