Sports

Heading into his first appearance at a world armwrestling championship, Allan Hartnell knew speed and experience would be the keys to victory.

The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team came home with a 1-7 record from a 10-team men’s tournament in Atikokan last weekend but head coach Toby Munro called it their “best volleyball of the year.”

“Seniorcise,” a gentle chair side exercise program for seniors, is in full swing at the Queen Street and Golden Age manors supervised by Joanne Judson-Riding and Barbara Duguay of the Home Support office.

Taking advantage of an early spring and a surge in popularity in the sport, the Kitchen Creek Golf Course saw a record number of rounds played there this season.

The Fort Frances Minor Hockey Association is preparing to host a pair of clinics for coaches and trainers next month.

After looking sluggish in a 17-15 loss to the Atikokan Voyageurs to open their best-of-five match here yesterday afternoon, the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team suddenly woke up in the second game--and then almost blew it.

Through the “duck slump” of the 1980s, I know a lot of waterfowl hunters who locked their shotguns in the gun safe and gave up the sport.

As Crossroads cross-country coach Paul Murray prepared to take his group of runners to a meet in Thunder Bay last weekend for the first time, he admitted he wasn’t quite sure how they would stack up.

Kitchen Creek also saw another record broken this season--aces.

Faced without a league to play in this season, the Muskie football team was forced to play a series of exhibition games against Manitoba squads.