Both St. Ignatius soccer teams took home gold medals from the all-Ontario championships Saturday. The fourth-seeded Lady Falcons, whose silver medal at last year’s OFSAA allowed the Muskies to attend the all-Ontarios this year, edged St. Thomas 2-1 in the final game in Sudbury. Meanwhile, the boys’ team, who were […]
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The Muskie girls’ soccer team failed to advance to the quarter-finals at the all-Ontarios in Sudbury after tying 14th-seeded Timmins High and Vocational School 1-1 in their final round-robin game this morning. Hillary Morgan scored for the black-and-gold. Fort High—seeded 11th—finished in third place in Pool ‘C’ with two points […]
The Muskies lost 6-0 to third-ranked St. Mary’s (Woodstock) this morning in their first game at the OFSAA girls’ ‘A’/‘AA’ soccer championship. The Muskies—ranked 11th—were to play again this afternoon at 3 p.m. (EST) against Jean Vanier Catholic High School, who beat Timmins High and Vocational School 5-0 this morning. […]
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 […]
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 […]
