Muskie hoops teams keep on winning

Both Muskie basketball teams looked as strong as ever yesterday in Dryden while their female volleyball counterparts suffered a pair of tough losses.
The senior boys’ basketball team beat the host Eagles 42-37, led by Morgan Anderson and Travis Stromness, who each netted 11 points.
The score was a far cry from the 64-29 drubbing laid on the Eagles just last week but it got the team on a bit of a roll with a second-consecutive victory after losing their first match of the season to the Kenora Broncos earlier this month.
“We’ve had a bit of a disappointing performance today,” head coach Paul Noonan said.
“We wanted to take it a little easy, so we didn’t play a lot of our bench players throughout the game, so it kind of kept our score potential down to a bit of a small degree.”
The reason was because the team was heading straight to the Buckeye Classic Varsity Boys Tournament, hosted by Miles MacDonell Collegiate in Winnipeg.
They had to face one of the city’s finest teams in Garden City that night.
The junior boys, meanwhile, improved their NorWOSSA record to a perfect 6-0 after beating Dryden 44-32 yesterday.
Justin Anderson again led the team with a 10-point effort, backed up by a solid eight points from Chris Legg.
But both Muskie volleyball teams fared much worse yesterday in Dryden and no doubt will relish the opportunity to return to home court now that the last away game of their NorWOSSA seasons is behind them.
The junior girls lost the first two sets by painfully close scores, falling 27-25 and 29-27, before bottoming out with a 25-13 loss in the third one to drop to 3-3 in league play.
The seniors were simply outmatched, losing 25-6, 25-9, and 25-13, to remain winless (0-6).
Due to exams, all four court teams won’t return to NorWOSSA action until Feb. 7 when they host the Kenora Broncos.
Then they’ll make up matches against Dryden here early in the following week, which were postponed due to inclement weather before Christmas, before the NorWOSSA playoffs are held Feb. 14 in Kenora.