Revenge is a dish best served inbounds. The Muskies senior girls volleyball team saw their three-year reign as NorWOSSA champs come to a bittersweet end last year in the league final as the Dryden Eagles came out on top in a four-set classic, which included a spine-tingling 37-35 victory by […]
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It was a breakout weekend for one of the Fort Frances Aquanauts’ more accomplished speed demons. Boyd Badiuk paced the Aquanauts with five top-10 finishes—and broke four club records in the process—at last weekend’s Prairie Winter Invitational swim meet in Winnipeg. Badiuk, 14, broke John Mayhew’s 1984 mark of 2:31.20 […]
They were the top team after the round-robin in their home rink, so having unbeaten and virtually unbeatable opponents standing in their way wasn’t about to scare them off. The Fort Frances IBEW hockey squad pulled off a major upset by beating the Westfort Rangers (Thunder Bay) 6-3 in the […]
It doesn’t pay to horse around—or mess with Mustangs. Bryce Knapp had the game-winner as the local Sunset Country Atom ‘AA’ Mustangs recovered from two-straight losses to beat the Dryden Rangers 3-1 in the ‘B’ final of a tournament Nov. 21-23 in Dryden. Devin Stromness delivered some clutch play between […]
If Goliath keeps this up, David is going to need a howitzer instead of a slingshot to take the beast down. The Kenora Broncos scored seven times in the first period en route to an easy 12-1 romp over the Muskie girls’ hockey squad there Monday night to drop the […]
“The Cat in the Hat” is doing big at the box-office these days, but “Dr. Sus” was far from a smash hit with the International Falls Broncos here last night. With the Muskie boys’ hockey team clinging precariously to a 1-0 lead late in the third period, captain Steven Sus […]
Catch them if you can. The Muskie senior boys’ basketball team plans to put its opponents in chase mode throughout the upcoming season—utilizing an uptempo attack that coach Paul Noonan is relying on to leave their rivals gasping for air. “We’re going to be a hustling team,” declared Noonan, whose […]
Three weeks into the hockey season, Emo-Devlin-Barwick Minor Hockey Assocation teams continue to play exhibition games with squads from Fort Frances and International Falls. In Atom division action, the Emo Hawks hosted International Falls Gold and earned a 3-3 tie on goals by D.J. Mosbeck, Robbie Rea, and Matt Sigurdson. […]
Some of their aces have been pulled from the deck, but Duane Roen isn’t about to fold with the hand he’s been dealt. It’s an endless challenge that junior volleyball coaches like Roen must pull off in trying to field a winning team year after year while facing a constant […]
With the might of their opponent’s hometown crowd against them, the Fort Frances K of C Knights still kept their “McCool” when they needed it most. Cody McCool scored twice, and Blake Wepruk netted the game-winner, as the local PeeWee ‘AA’ squad beat the Kenora Thistles 3-1 on Sunday in […]
Now that they have a team they can call their own, the Emo Esso PeeWee girls’ hockey squad has discovered the whole is greater than the sum of their parts. The players had been scattered among various Fort Frances teams over the years. But this past off-season, the wheels were […]
It was a day Marcel Horton never envisioned happening—and a day he won’t soon forget. The Rainy River First Nations resident made a name for himself as a member of the Muskies 1989 all-Ontario championship hockey team. But the thrill from that achievement may have to take a backseat to […]
