Three local women and Kitchen Creek club pro Steve Wood teed off in Winnipeg last week for the Manitoba PGA Pro Lady Tournament and despite the chilly weather, they managed to have a great time—and place in the top eight. “The conditions were tough, it was windy and cool,” noted […]
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Aquanaut Donovan Cousineau earned the high points trophy for the male 10 and under category at the Thunder Bay Thunderbolts International Invitational last weekend with three first-place finishes, one second, four thirds, and one seventh. He also improved his time in the 200m I.M. by 21.91 seconds. Cousineau, whose gold […]
After a cancellations due to weather, the Fort Frances Little League is finally, slowly, getting underway. And team organizers Dave Sande here and Ken Wilson in Barwick look forward to seeing what the future will bring to the sport they love. “Baseball is making some pretty good strides here,” said […]
Heather Dutton last week earned her third trip to the all-Ontarios this season—two days after being named Fort High’s female athlete of the year. Dutton, one of seven members on the high school track club to run at the NWOSSAA event in Thunder Bay, won gold in the senior girls’ […]
The Muskie girls’ soccer team has been seeded 11th for the all-Ontarios, which get underway Thursday in Sudbury. Playing in Pool ‘C,’ the black-and-gold will open action at 11 a.m. (EDT) against third-seeded St. Mary’s High School (Woodstock) before meeting sixth-seeded Jean Vanier Catholic High School (Collingwood) at 3 p.m. […]
Two Borderland Thunder players earned top honours at the SIJHL awards banquet Sunday in Thunder Bay. Kevin Webb was voted league MVP by the SIJHL coaches while Kurt Hogard was named the league’s top defenceman. “It’s a great honour for Kevin Webb,” said Thunder coach Dave Allison. “I think he […]
“We played with heart.” That comment by Muskie soccer co-captain Andrew Curr just moments after the team’s season—and his career with the black-and-gold—ended on a warm and windy Saturday afternoon in Wawa. In the aftermath of a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the St. Ignatius Falcons (Thunder Bay), it […]
The Emo Walleye Classic for me was, in many ways, one of the fishing highlights of my life. Finishing in the top 10 was well beyond the expectations of my partner, Patrick Langevin, and me, so things couldn’t have been better, right? Not exactly. Our adventure was not without some […]
So far and yet so close. The Muskie boys’ soccer team made the nearly 500-mile trek to Wawa (near Sault Ste. Marie) by school bus Friday and then came up just short of qualifying for the OFSAA tournament in North Bay later this week. The black-and-gold opened play in the […]
The Muskie girls’ soccer team captured the NWOSSAA silver medal here Saturday, but that still was good enough to advance to the all-Ontarios later this week in Sudbury. The squad left Tuesday after blanking Nip-Rock 7-0 to open the NWOSSAA tournament Saturday morning, then losing 1-0 to St. Ignatius (Thunder […]
The competition has been decided for the NWOSSAA soccer championships on Saturday. The Muskie girls’ soccer team will host the St. Ignatius Falcons (Thunder Bay) and the Nip-Rock Lakers (Nipigon) while the boys will drive to Wawa for games against Michipicoten and St. Ignatius. Action here will start at 9 […]
An athlete who qualified for the all-Ontarios twice in the same school year, as well as one who went to OFSAA in consecutive years in two different sports, were crowned as the top female and male Muskie athletes at Tuesday night’s athletic awards banquet at La Place Rendez-Vous. Heather Dutton […]
