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A new year led to a better result for the Fort Frances Chiefs at their annual home tournament over the weekend. Hanna Ledrew scored the winner with 6:14 to in the third period to lift the Chiefs to a 3-2 win over the Dryden 3rd Liners in the exciting championship […]

Not much has separated the Muskie girls’ hockey team and the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints (Kenora) this season. What seemed to be the inevitable clash of the titans has come to pass as the first-place Muskies and second-place Saints will square off in the best-of-three NorWOSSA final this week to […]

The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team has been the best in Northwestern Ontario now two years in a row. The black-and-gold was dominant in a sweep of the host Westgate Tigers in the best-of-three NWOSSAA championship on Friday, winning both matches in straight sets. Fort High now advances to the […]

The Red Lake Miners got three points apiece from Spencer Milne and Jordan Baranesky as they rolled to a 7-2 romp over the Fort Frances Lakers last night in SIJHL action at the Cochenour Arena. The Lakers saw their record fall to 18-27-3-2 with the loss and have now dropped […]

For a second straight year the Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team has booked their ticket to the OFSAA ‘AA’ championship after completing a sweep of the Westgate Tigers in the best-of-three NWOSSAA championship on Friday in Thunder Bay. The Muskies won both games 2-0 to earn their berth to the […]

The Fort Frances Lakers will be looking to erase a miserable weekend from their memories as quick as possible. The Lakers followed up a 3-0 shutout loss on home ice to the Thief River Falls Norskies on Friday night with their worst outing of the season in a 10-1 shellacking […]

The Muskie girls’ and boys’ hockey teams were able to draw first blood in their respective best-of-three NorWOSSA semifinal series on Tuesday night. Tatum Glowasky scored with 42.3 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Muskie girls to a comeback 3-2 win over the Sioux Lookout Warriors in the opener […]

Saturday, Feb. 22 was the perfect day for the Rick Bourre Memorial Fishing Derby. Brilliant sunshine and mild temperatures had about 150 participants pour onto the ice of the Rainy River at the town’s Hannam Park. Dozens of holes were drilled awaiting the enthusiastic anglers, young and old, wanting to […]

Going up against the best in the province can be nerve wracking for any athlete. But the four members of the Muskie Nordic skiing team remained calm and put in great performances at the OFSAA championships held in Huntsville last Wednesday and Thursday as call came away with a top-40 […]

It seemed for the most part of three periods that the Dryden GM Ice Dogs were going to cruise to another win over their SIJHL rival Fort Frances Lakers as the hosts couldn’t find the back of the net.Tyler Malpass had other plans. The 20-year-old forward scored a pair of […]

The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team is getting used to what it means to be the cream of the crop. The top-ranked Muskies used a complete team effort to claim a 3-0 win over the second-place Dryden Eagles in the NorWOSSA final on Monday afternoon at Fort High. It was […]

THUNDER BAY, Ont.–The SIJHL announced last Thursday its format and timeline for the upcoming Bill Salonen Cup playoffs. The first round of the SIJHL post-season will feature a pair of best-of-five quarterfinal series, which are slated to run between March 17-24. Those match-ups features the No. 3 seeded team taking […]