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 […]
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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 […]
After the weekend they had, any chance the Muskie senior girls’ basketball squad had to hone their offence was most welcomed. The Muskies had their share of shooting woes while going 2-1 in their annual home tournament, but looked much sharper—at least in the first half—en route to a 47-30 […]
His team is on the mend both physically and emotionally after being swept last weekend in Thunder Bay, but Dave Allison isn’t too worried about hurting the feelings of a few Borderland Thunder members he views as not carrying their weight. “There’s some players here that have to start justifying […]
For Chrissy Thomson, wind is nothing to whine about. The Fort Frances native, and member of the St. John’s Red Storm university women’s golf team, gritted her teeth in the face of a brisk Atlantic breeze and crafted a two-day total of 18-over 162 to finish second by three strokes […]
Squash is a challenging enough test for any individual on two good legs. Take one of those away and it gets to be a bigger challenge in a big hurry. Colin Drombolis of Fort Frances had jumped out to a commanding 2-0 lead in his best-of-five consolation final match against […]
