The Muskie girls’ hockey team opened its NorWOSSA season on a winning note Tuesday night with a 3-2 shootout victory over the visiting Dryden Eagles. Lauren Krukoski and Kailey Curtis scored in regulation for the black-and-gold. But with the score knotted at 2-2 after three periods, the match moved into […]
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The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team—Fort High’s best hope for NorWOSSA gold after a 6-2 regular-season record—could only manage silver after losing to the Dryden Eagles in four sets in the league final here Friday afternoon. The black-and-gold had swept the winless Kenora Broncos in straight sets in the semi-final […]
Season-ticket sales for the Muskie boys’ hockey team are down by half of last year’s mark—and the squad needs the community to get behind it in order to operate on a balanced budget. “They’ve been a lot harder to sell this year,” noted Gary Beck of the Blueline Club. “I […]
Even if they didn’t get the sweep they were looking for, the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres’ winless streak is over after they beat the Thunder Bay Bulldogs 4-2 on Saturday night. But while the win was their first in nine games, the Sabres (4-10-2-3) couldn’t hide their disappointment from losing […]
It was a much harder-earned silver medal for the Muskie girls’ senior basketball team than one might have expected. The senior girls first defeated the Kenora Broncos 43-40 in the NorWOSSA semi-final here Friday—a game in which the Muskies had to stage an unexpected comeback after leading 31-23 heading into […]
Three local squash players headed to the 2007 Winnipeg Winter Club Open squash tournament on Nov. 5-10 and came home with top three finishes. Ben Andrusco, a former Fort Frances resident, took first place in the men’s ‘A’ bracket, winning 3-2 in the best-of-five semi-final and final matches. Mark Faragher […]
It was a much harder-earned silver medal for the Muskie girls’ senior basketball team than one might have expected. The senior girls first defeated the Kenora Broncos 43-40 in the NorWOSSA semi-final here Friday—a game in which the Muskies had to stage an unexpected comeback after leading 31-23 heading into […]
The Fort Frances Aquanauts headed to the Canada Games Complex for the Thunder Bay Fall Invitational and came back with a haul of medals, personal bests, and a handful of provincial qualifying times for star swimmer Donovan Taylor. Taylor, 13, collected four times to qualify for provincial level competition as […]
The Fort Frances Jr. Sabres split a pair of road games to the lowly Thunder Bay Bulldogs over the weekend. The Sabres came out strong, winning 4-2 on Saturday night at the Port Arthur Arena before falling 3-1 yesterday afternoon. Kyle Turgeon started the scoring Saturday night with a shorthanded […]
Two Muskie court teams won silver at the NorWOSSA playoffs here Friday while the other two squads had to settle for bronze. The junior boys’ volleyball team—Fort High’s best hope for NorWOSSA gold after a 6-2 regular-season record—swept the Kenora Broncos 25-20, 25-13, and 26-24 in the semi-final before falling […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team saw their first action of the season away from town over the weekend, coming away with a 3-1 record and the ‘C’ bracket crown at a tournament in Morden, Man. “The first two games, it was poor,” head coach Shane Bliss said. “We weren’t skating […]
With the SIJHL’s Dec. 1 trade deadline approaching and the Fort Frances Jr. Sabres in sixth place in the seven-team league, there likely will be plenty of buzz all month about the team shaking up its roster through a trade. But any attempt to deal captain Quinn Amiel, a 20-year-old […]
