When Robert Moore School decided to honour retired teacher Jim Oster with an invitational boys’ basketball tournament, the idea probably was to have the home team win it. But somebody forgot to tell the Mine Centre Thunderbirds. Eight teams, including two from host Robert Moore, squared off all day Saturday […]
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Both the Muskie girls’ and boys’ curling rinks faced a simple scenario going into the final draw of the NorWOSSA curling championships here yesterday—win and advance to NWOSSAA, or lose and pack away the brooms for the season. First to the girls. Skipped by Amy Nielson, the team, which included […]
So comprehensive was the Muskies’ domination in their 56-30 rout of the Dryden Eagles last Thursday in Kenora for the NorWOSSA junior boys’ basketball crown, so cool and lethal was their offence, so airtight and comprehensive was their defence, so elegant was the play calling from the coaches, it seemed […]
With blood stained on his hands and shirt, and holding a bloodied towel to the back of his head, Thunder head coach Dave Allison spoke about one of the ugliest incidents ever witnessed at the Ice for Kids Arena. The Thunder won the game 3-1 against the visiting Dryden Ice […]
Shane Bliss is old school. Munching on fries at the A&W restaurant, which seems to always be the food stop on the way home after every game in Kenora, the head coach of the Muskie boys’ hockey team reminisced on his playing days with the black-and-gold. He recalled one time […]
The Muskie girls’ curling team, skipped by Amy Nielson, jumped out to a 2-0 start at the NorWOSSA curling championships which wrap up today at the Fort Frances Curling Club. The team, which includes third Courtney Beadle, second Jenna Enge, and lead Kate Bondett, opened play yesterday with an impressive […]
The Muskie boys’ and girls’ hockey teams will wrap up the NorWOSSA regular season tonight in Kenora. Regardless of what happens tonight, the second-place Muskie boys will face the third-place Broncos in the best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-finals, which opens this Friday at the Ice for Kids Arena. Game 2 goes Sunday […]
After giving up a late goal to tie the Dryden Eagles 4-4 here Tuesday, the Muskie boys’ hockey team exacted revenge with a 5-4 victory up there last night. Meanwhile, the Muskie girls’ hockey team, coming off their first win in NorWOSSA play this season with a 2-1 victory over […]
The Muskie junior boys’ basketball team beat the host Kenora Broncos 40-33 in their NorWOSSA semi-final match this morning. They now will play the Dryden Eagles for the gold medal at 5 p.m. Morgan Anderson led the Muskies against Kenora with nine points while Scott Gurski added seven. Meanwhile, the […]
The Gavel racing team was able to claim six of nine possible trophies last weekend in Thompson, Man. John Gavel placed first in the Masters final, second in the 30+ Open final, and third in the 30+ final. Rob Gavel, meanwhile, collected a second-place trophy in the Open final to […]
After an embarrassing straight-set loss to the Dryden Eagles there last Thursday, the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team needed to end their NorWOSSA regular season on a high note. And they did just that with a convincing 3-1 win over the Kenora Broncos here yesterday afternoon. “This was a very […]
Maddening is perhaps one way to describe the up-and-down play of the Borderland Thunder 40 games into the season. After losing to the Dryden Ice Dogs up there last Wednesday night, the Thunder went 1-2 on a road trip to Thunder Bay over the weekend, falling to the first-place Fort […]
