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 […]
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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 […]
Two days and counting. In less than forty-eight hours, my partner, Patrick Langevin, and I will join 48 other teams on the Rainy River in search of elusive ol’ “marble eyes” in the third-annual Emo Walleye Classic. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been on the phone to each other […]
•Letterman Awards and Athletic Certificates—Trish Smith, Andrew Mueller, and Kevin Gemmell •MVP ‘A’ Football (Paul Renaud Trophy)—Andrew George •Outstanding Contribution ‘A’ Football (Marc DeGagne Award)—Kevin Tysz •Outstanding Defensive Player ‘A’ Football (Reece Scofield Memorial)—Jordy Botsford •MVP ‘B’ Football—Steve Boileau and Terry Carmody •MVP Junior Girls’ Volleyball (Horban Award)—Natalie Desjardins •MVP […]
If you’d asked me last week what I thought the most important thing about golf was, I would have said hitting the ball through the air in the general direction of the green. I would have been wrong. Not knowing a thing about golfing, I set off to Kitchen Creek […]
Two years into the program, organization of Fort High’s golf club is getting a little better. The club, which has seven student members, ran a tournament at Kitchen Creek Golf Course here last week, coming in fourth, with Red Lake taking first place. The highlight of the tournament was a […]
“Here they come—the boys in the bright white sports car.” Well, the cars weren’t exactly white at the opening of the stock car racing season at the Emo Speedway on Saturday night, but Trooper’s 1976 hit got one detail right: they were bright. The 24 cars that competed in the […]
According to her mother, volleyball is Kate Elliott’s sport. Which might explain why she was named the MVP for Muskie senior girls’ volleyball for 2003-04. “Whether we were up on the scoreboard or down on the scoreboard, she excelled in every game,” said senior girls’ coach Char Bliss, who named […]
Two local football players are left before the final tryouts for Football Manitoba’s under-17 team. The team, which will be cut from 55 to 36 during practice June 11-13, will compete against at least six other teams later this summer in Kitchener. Muskie ‘A’ football coach Bob Swing approached a […]
The outgoing president and one of the founders of the FFHS Athletic Association executive was heavily-honoured at the Muskies’ awards banquet last night. Andrew George, who graduates this year after playing basketball and football for Fort High, was named the ‘A’ football team’s MVP, winner of the Brent Ogden Memorial […]
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 […]
