Jamie Mountain It was a great weekend for the Muskie senior boys’ basketball team as they finished with a silver medal at the annual Falcon Invitational Tournament held in Thunder Bay on Friday and Saturday. The black-and-gold opened play on Friday with a 57-47 win over the Hammarskjold Vikings. The […]
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Jamie Mountain The Muskie girls’ and Rainy River Owls’ boys’ curling rinks passed their first tests of the season with flying colours this week. Both squads put in an excellent two days of curling and topped their respective divisions at the NorWOSSA qualifier held on Sunday and Monday at the […]
Jamie Mountain With both an SIJHL championship and a Dudley-Hewitt Cup title on their minds, the Fort Frances Lakers have made some moves to bolster the team for the stretch run of the season. In the first of three transactions on Friday, which also was the CJHL’s annual trade deadline, […]
Jamie Mountain They put the effort in and got rewarded in the end. The Muskie boys’ hockey team compiled a 3-0-1 record en route to winning the ‘B’-side title at the annual Piper Classic Tournament of Champions held in Winnipeg Friday through Sunday. Although his squad had higher aspirations in […]
Jamie Mountain They may be smaller in numbers but their talent stacks right up there against the best in NorWOSSA competition. The six-member contingent that represented the Muskie Nordic skiing team all put in solid showings at their annual home meet on Friday at the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club […]
Staff It was a successful weekend for the Muskie boys’ hockey team as the squad came away with the ‘B’-side title at the annual Piper Classic Tournament of Champions in Winnipeg. The Muskies opened Pool ‘D’ play on Friday morning with a 6-5 overtime loss to the Shaftesbury Titans. Jacob […]
Staff The Muskie court sports teams faced some mixed results against the host Dryden Eagles on Thursday afternoon and came away with a split in their NorWOSSA league games. The senior boys’ basketball team improved to a league-best 4-0 with a decisive 61-35 win over the Eagles. Mike Vanderaa led […]
Staff It was a great start to the season for the Muskie Nordic skiing team on Friday here. Members of the black-and-gold put in some solid performances at the Muskie Invitational, which was the NorWOSSA season-opener, and was held at the Rainy Lake Nordic Ski Club trails on Rocky Inlet. […]
Staff The SIJHL has announced that tonight’s game (Friday, Jan. 10) between the Dryden GM Ice Dogs and Fort Frances Lakers at the Ice For Kids Arena has been postponed. The cause of the postponement is due to a closure on the Trans Canada Highway, following a significant accident. This […]
Jamie Mountain The weekend did not go as the Muskie girls’ hockey team had hoped and members of the black-and-gold will be looking to put a tough experience behind them as they get set to head into the second half of the NorWOSSA season next week. Fort High was close […]
Press Release It will be a landmark edition of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts when the 2021 Canadian Women’s Curling Championship is staged in Thunder Bay, Ont., it was announced yesterday by Curling Canada. The 2021 event, which will be played Feb. 20-28 at the Fort Williams Garden, will be […]
Jamie Mountain To say Cassandra Jackson had a “smashing” good time during her four years with the Minnesota State University Moorhead women’s rugby team would be a massive understatement. The Fort Frances native helped lead the Hummerz to a fourth-place finish nationally in 2018 and followed that up this season […]
