Ejections, suspensions, and rink renovations. Just another quiet two-game set between the Borderland Thunder and the Dryden Ice Dogs. The defending SIJHL champion Thunder (6-5-1) battled tooth and nail with the league-leading Ice Dogs (10-3-2-1), but came away with only one out of a possible four points after a 4-4 […]
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Time for some serious competition. Both the Fort Frances Aquanauts Swim Team and the Fort Frances Cyclone Swim Club will have to crank up their intensity this weekend against the toughest field they’ve faced so far this young season at the Kenora Swimming Sharks fall invitational meet. “At Thunder Bay, […]
She missed her pre-race goal, but the excitement that accompanied Heather Dutton’s appearance at the all-Ontario cross-country running championships last weekend was right on the mark. “It was a really good experience,” said Dutton, who finished 152nd in the 214-runner field in the senior girls’ division Saturday in Renfrew (near […]
They played the game because they had to—but both came out a winner. Stratton’s Bryan Bonot claimed the Zone 7 senior men’s curling title with an 8-1 win over Jim Armstrong of Fort Frances on Friday night in Stratton. The showdown originally was slated to be a best-of-three affair but […]
Allison Hyatt won’t have to budget for any manicure appointments for the next while. There’s not enough of her fingernails left at this point in the season to worry about it. The former Muskie is on the cusp of the biggest achievement in her athletic career as she and her […]
Last year’s final came down to a shootout, but the Hopper’s Bruins were in no mood for drama this time around. The Bruins rallied from a 2-0 deficit to down Graders 5-2 and defend their title of ‘A’ side champions in the third-annual Hopper’s Memorial Tournament at the Ice for […]
The great thing about a new season is everybody starts out equal. How long it stays that way will be up to the Muskie girls’ hockey team. The Muskies’ 0-12 NorWOSSA regular-season record—and subsequent 2-0 sweep at the hands of the Dryden Eagles in the league semi-finals—are the stuff of […]
A two-game winning streak at Friday’s NorWOSSA playoffs in Kenora will provide a much-welcomed bout of amnesia for three of the four Muskie court teams. The regular season has been a relentless series of pitfalls for both the junior and senior boys’ volleyballs squads, as well as the junior girls’ […]
The Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team is putting it all together at the right time. The squad played their best volleyball of the season in advancing to the semi-finals of a tournament in Dryden last weekend, before being felled 2-0 by one of the two host squads. “We went from […]
Barring unforeseen circumstances, the Muskie boys’ hockey team shouldn’t have to go through any mid-season transitions behind the bench. The topic of focus now becomes making a post-season transition on the ice so as to avoid last year’s disappearing act. The black-and-gold lost for the second-straight year via a 2-0 […]
A scar on her forehead and another near her left eye said volumes about the war Katie Mc- Tavish had just been through. The smile on her face, though, told the real story. McTavish hit a foul line jumper with 58.4 seconds left to give the Muskie junior girls’ basketball […]
The Borderland Thunder would be happier if Tyler Desjarlais stuck to piling up penalty minutes rather than points. The Dryden Ice Dogs’ forward was one of the SIJHL’s most frequent visitors to the “sin bin” last year. But while he still has a solid place in the top 10 of […]
