Nobody promised that life was fair, and Sarah Noonan’s learning that lesson in spades. The sophomore midfielder/forward for the University of Minnesota-Duluth women’s soccer team just went through a glorious season that saw the Bulldogs go 8-0 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) regular season—and 14-3-3 overall counting non-conference […]
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The Muskie senior girls’ basketball squad is going to the all-Ontarios. Any attempt to tell Carley McCormick otherwise will be instantly dismissed as worthless propaganda. “We can do it,” an optimistic McCormick stressed not long after the Muskies completed a tour de force NorWOSSA campaign with a 36-24 win over […]
The ending could have used a little work, but the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball season ended up being a real page-turner after all. Coach Greg Ste. Croix guided his charges to another exciting victory in the NorWOSSA semi-final in Kenora last Friday, rallying from a 2-1 deficit to win the […]
That’s more like it. The Muskies took the first step towards exorcising the demons of a sub-par post-season last year by whipping the Kenora Broncos 6-2 in their NorWOSSA season-opener last night at the Ice for Kids Arena. Muskie newcomers Jordan Bale (power play) and Brock Benjamin sandwiched goals around […]
Whatever Justin Larson is eating these days, Shane Bliss may want to add it to the team menu. Bliss coached the Muskie boys’ hockey team to the consolation title at a pre-season tournament in Dryden last weekend, but it was Larson—a second-year forward—who wielded the big stick with eight goals […]
The gnashing of Allison Hyatt’s teeth could be heard all the way up here. The former Muskie volleyball star saw her freshman season with the Rainy River Community College Voyageurs come to what was a bitterly frustrating end for her in a 3-1 loss to the host Central Lakes College […]
The champions’ opponents could have doubled their score and it still wouldn’t have made a difference. Theresa Olson, along with her youth teammates, Caitlyn Thomson and Eric Bois, turned the PeeWee/55-Plus bowling tournament here Sunday into their personal playground—posting a +207 total to win by a staggering 108 pins. The […]
Dave Egan’s fortune-telling needs a little bit of work, but there’s nothing wrong with his hockey team. Egan’s Fort Frances Midget ‘AA’ Canadians made short work of the Rat River 59’ers on Saturday afternoon at the Ice for Kids Arena here, blasting the visitors 8-1 in Manitoba Eastman Midget League […]
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 […]
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 […]
