Senior hoopsters earn first win

The Muskies senior girls’ basketball team earned its first win of the young NorWOSSA season here yesterday afternoon while the junior squad remains winless.
The seniors opened the action with a convincing 22-13 win over the visiting Kenora Broncos to improve to 1-1.
The two teams spent most of the first quarter with less than half a dozen points between them—something Muskie head coach Ian Simpson wasn’t pleased with.
“It wasn’t much offence for a while,” he noted. “Very tentative offensively . . . we’ve got some really tall girls, but we missed a lot of inside shots.”
But even if the senior girls’ play wasn’t glittering, it was dominating—the black-and-gold led 13-5 at the half and kept the visitors to single digits until late in the fourth quarter.
Despite the easy victory, Simpson knew there was plenty to work on.
“We gotta keep working in practice,” he remarked. “We haven’t had time to practice yet, or in a game situation to correct anything.”
Later yesterday, the Muskie junior girls’ team fell behind 19-10 at halftime and never recovered, falling 34-21 to the visiting Broncos to drop to 0-2 on the season.
Both squads had opened the eight-game NorWOSSA campaign on a losing note last Thursday in Dryden.
The seniors fell 36-27 to the Eagles while the juniors came up on the short end of a 37-34 score.
The Muskie girls resume NorWOSSA action next Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 9) when they host the Eagles. The seniors are slated to start at 3:30 p.m., with the juniors following at 5 p.m.