There is one universal truth in tournament competition—seeding matters. For most coaches, the ideal tournament performance involves his or her team improving steadily throughout the competition—culminating with their best performance in the championship game. The easiest means of accomplishing this goal is to fare well in the round-robin portion of […]
Local Sports
The future of the Fort Frances Aquanauts looks very bright. Three of the team’s youngest members competed at a meet in Dryden over the weekend and as has been the case with most of the club’s swimmers so far this year, the results were excellent. Katja Sutherland, 11, posted personal […]
Fifteen Sunset Country squashers (men, women, and juniors) invaded Thunder Bay last weekend and dominated the Northwestern Open. Three event winners emerged, along with three runner-ups, four consolation winners, and two “tinner” winners. The eight local juniors on the trip were victorious in seven of the eight events, leaving coaches […]
The Fort Frances Gymnastics Club got its season off to a strong start at the “Ready or Not” competition in Winnipeg earlier this month. Rhythmic gymnasts Kathryn Pearce and Chanelle Mathews exceeded all expectations for the opening competition of the season, finishing among the top two spots in each of […]
Four Illinois anglers have been fined a total of $3,000 for having 15 walleye more than legally allowed. Jurek Niklarz, 62, and Janina Niklarz, 53, of Elk Grove, along with Andrew Polaski, 51, and Elvira Polaski, 64, of Chicago, were convicted and fined $750 each. They were not in court. […]
The Muskie boys’ hockey team rebounded from their worst performance of the season here last Tuesday against the Ely Timberwolves to post a 3-0 shutout in Red Lake Falls, Mn. on Friday night. After a scoreless first period, George Halverson netted his 22nd goal of the season on a power […]
The Muskie junior boys’ basketball team finished with a 1-2 record at the St. Anne Collegiate junior varsity tournament in St. Anne, Man. over the weekend. The black-and-gold opened round-robin play against the eventual tournament champion College Beliveau Barracudas. In a tightly-contested affair, the Barracudas took control late in the […]
The Fort Frances Canadians continued their strong play of late, finishing third at the annual “Spirit of Duluth” hockey tournament over the weekend. The Canadians dug themselves an early hole, losing 3-1 to Minnetonka in their opening round-robin game Friday morning. Josh Scott scored their lone marker. Fort Frances then […]
The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team lost to the host Dryden Eagles in the semi-finals of the Santa Claus Classic over the weekend. The black-and-gold got off to a slow start in round-robin play, losing in straight sets to both the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) and Westgate Tigers (Thunder […]
The Fort Frances Canadians will look to continue their strong play of late at the 30th-annual “Spirit of Duluth” hockey tournament this weekend. The Canadians are set to face Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, and Marquette in round-robin play starting tomorrow morning. The team is coming off its most successful stretch of […]
You can’t win them all. The Muskie boys’ hockey team suffered their first defeat of the season—6-1 to the St. Paul’s Crusaders—in the championship game of the Genesis Hospitality high school hockey tournament in Brandon, Man. over the weekend. The loss snapped a string of 18-consecutive victories to start the […]
Hockey tournaments often are a great opportunity for coaches to experiment. The Muskie girls’ hockey team experimented with a number of different line combinations, and tinkered a bit with their goaltending, at the Northern Shield Classic over the weekend in Dryden. And as is the case with any experiment, the […]
