You’ve got to be lucky to be good. Well, the Muskie boys’ and girls’ curling teams will need to be good and lucky—and fast. Some first-day struggles yesterday at the NWOSSAA championships in Red Lake will force both Muskie squads to get hot in a hurry today—and also get some […]
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With a summer of movie sequels on the horizon, the Dryden Eagles beat Hollywood to the punch and released their own follow-up. In a rerun of last year’s NorWOSSA playoffs, both the Eagles boys’ and girls’ hockey teams brought a sudden end to the Muskies’ seasons with semi-final sweeps. After […]
The Borderland Thunder went from fight night to fright night, but still came away with a valuable four points over the weekend in their quest to clinch first place in the SIJHL. A 6-1 victory here Friday night over the Feathermen Hawks featured an eight-player brawl at the 12:02 mark […]
Athletes sometimes are described as being in the groove. If so, Alex Parent carved a whole valley out of the flatlands of Saskatchewan last week. The Fort Frances Aquanaut was unstoppable in the Swimmers With Athletic Disabilities (SWAD) division of the junior national swimming championships in Regina, piling up six […]
On an undeniably memorable day at the “Fish Tank,” the Muskie junior girls’ volleyball squad will look back at yesterday with the fondest of recollections. The black-and-gold completed their remarkable turnaround this season with a 3-1 victory over the Dryden Eagles in the best-of-five NorWOSSA final in front of a […]
The playoffs are about clutch play, hustle, and intelligence. Last night, the Muskie boys’ hockey team was none of the above. The Dryden Eagles scored on back-to-back power plays in the first period en route to an 8-3 thrashing of the host Muskies in game one of their best-of-three NorWOSSA […]
The Borderland Thunder are hungry for victory—and hope this weekend’s menu includes roasted Hawks. With less than 10 games left in the regular season, the league-leading Thunder (27-9-5-2) will take on the fifth-place Feathermen Hawks (10-31-1-4) tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Ice for Kids Arena. The Thunder […]
A courageous comeback ended up being in vain for the Borderland Thunder last night. The hometown Dryden Ice Dogs (27-15-2-1) watched the Thunder (27-10-5-1) erase a three-goal deficit, but then steadied themselves in time to earn a 4-3 victory in overtime. The win was only Dryden’s second in nine tries […]
It’s been a year of commiserating, seething, and planning. Now the time for payback is finally here. The Muskie boys’ hockey team has waited 12 long months to avenge their 2-0 loss to the Dryden Eagles in the best-of-three NorWOSSA semi-finals last season. Step one in the retribution process takes […]
The Muskie hockey teams will go Eagle hunting tonight as the NorWOSSA regular season wraps up. The male Muskies (15-4) visit Dryden to face the Eagles in a preview of the teams’ best-of-three semi-final playoff match-up, set to begin here Thursday. The black-and-gold, who already have clinched second place in […]
After losing a rope-a-dope affair to start the weekend, the Borderland Thunder spent the next two days treating their opponents like punching bags. A two-to-one advantage in shots on goal went for naught Friday night as the Thunder dropped a 4-1 decision to the host Fort William First Nation North […]
The main man in black and white had Shane Bliss seeing red. Referee Len Herken was not the Muskie boys’ hockey coach’s favourite Valentine after Fort High (17-4) officially fell out of the race for first place in NorWOSSA with a weekend split against the host Red Lake Rams (10-10). […]
