Like a piano falling on a Looney Tunes character, the feeling hit Caroline Spencer. She started her walk to the pitch relaxed and cool like Bugs Bunny, but halfway onto the field is when her dormant character—resembling a nervous Daffy Duck—came to the surface. “I wasn’t nervous in the slightest […]
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The Aquanauts swm club sent 12 swimmers down to the KSS Spring Invitational Swim Meet on April 22-24 in Kenora. Here are their individual results: •Christopher Allan (12)—50m Free (5th, 53.59); 50m Back (2nd, 54.43); 100m Breast (3rd, 2:31.38), 100m IM (5th, 2:13.21), 100m Free (5th, 1:58.14), 100m Back (DQ), […]
One of the challenges facing members of the committee planning next year’s all-Ontario boys’ hockey tournament here is to not only run the event but to have it “etched in people’s minds,” according to co-convener Terry Ogden. Things certainly are looking good so far. Issues are being dealt with, ideas […]
As good as it gets. That’s what was inscribed on a dark blue shirt worn by Simone Desjardins, who qualified for the OFSAA badminton championships after taking the NWOSSA senior girls’ gold medal last Wednesday in Manitouwadge, which is about a 12-hour trip—”It was pretty tiring.” But things could get […]
When Al Pacino speaks, people listen. So when Michael Corleone spoke, the Muskies opened their eardrums to the man known in other circles as Scarface. On the way to the pitch to play in a semi-final game at the St. John’s Ravenscourt soccer tournament this past weekend in Winnipeg, Chris […]
The Muskie boys’ soccer team came away with the ‘B’ title at the St. John’s Ravenscourt tournament in Winnipeg over the weekend. They black-and-gold opened play Friday evening with a 2-0 loss to Miles Mac, but rebounded with a 1-0 win over Glenlawn Collegiate on Saturday, which gave them second […]
The sun wanted to creep through, but the clouds wouldn’t let it. A steady wind also was present, and it was cold. And if it had rained, then it would have been perfect English “futbol” weather for the Muskie girls’ exhibition game against the Rainy River Owls here yesterday. “It […]
Muskie Simone Desjardins won the gold medal in the senior girls’ singles division at the NWOSSAA badminton championships Wednesday in Manitouwadge to qualify for the all-Ontarios. This will be Desjardins’ fourth trip to OFSAA, which will take place May 5-7 in the Toronto area. The 18-year-old qualified twice before in […]
Their season essentially can be only two games long. Now hold on there. What’s that you said? How can a season last only two games? Well, that can be a possibility for the Muskie boys’ soccer team as they look towards their schedule, which can only be a measly four […]
If you’re a woman and possess pathos for soccer at any level, then the Borderland Soccer Association wants (and needs) you. The local women’s league may be lost this season, and after countless hours spent by a few to get it started, association president Shane Beckett said it would be […]
The story wasn’t that Atikokan would win the trophy. That much was pretty much guaranteed (if you took a peek at the NorWOSSA badminton team trophy, you would have seen for yourself why such a statement is justified). The modest hardware, which weighs less than 10 pounds and doesn’t even […]
Caroline Spencer is neither young nor old, but to classify her as part of Generation ‘X’ would be false. So when Spencer, who is the head coach of the Muskie girls’ soccer team, described their brief four-week season as “Fast and Furious,” without realizing her analogy goes towards the action-packed […]
