Kitchen Creek reported a “significant” increase in the number of golfers using the course this year compared to last—despite the fact many of its greens and fairways suffered extensive ice damage this spring.
That, coupled with a cold, wet May, left the course in poor shape, forcing the club to use temporary greens well into the season.
With a pair of new coaches, plenty of young players and a new system, the Muskie junior boys’ volleyball team faced plenty of question marks when they took to the court last week for a pre-season tournament.
But in the end, the junior spikers came away with a fourth-place finish in the nine-team showdown at Fort High.
Despite coming off a bye week, Muskie head coach Bob Swing said his team is “pretty banged up” heading into their game Saturday up in Dryden.
Even though the black-and-gold haven’t seen game action since their 36-0 blowout over the visiting Kenora Broncos in their Homecoming game Sept. 5, Swing admitted his team is hurting as they take on the winless Eagles.
The Muskies were handed a lesson in what it takes to win at the senior level at the eighth-annual FFHS/A&W junior and senior boys’ volleyball tournament here last week.
After the black-and-gold swept Rainy River 15-6 and 15-12, then bounced Ignace by identical 15-11 scores to open the eight-team, pre-season tourney, they looked to be well on their way to an impressive showing.
The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team will head into the NorWOSSA season with the notion “it’s not where you start but where you finish.”
That’s because Rick Wiedenhoeft, who coached the squad to an all-Ontario berth last season, will inherit a team that has definite question marks in some key positions.
In the midst of yet another dismal season a year ago, the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team did something they hadn’t done for quite some time—they won a regular-season game.
The win snapped a long losing streak that had extended over several seasons, and showed the senior girls’ squad was starting to turn the corner.
The Muskies used last Friday’s Homecoming game against the Kenora Broncos to send a distinct message—they will be tough to dethrone as NorWOSSA champs this season.
Using a sensational running attack led by Terry LaBelle, the Muskies dominated the younger Broncos all afternoon en route to a lopsided 36-0 victory.
It was an exciting ending to a two-day tournament Sunday afternoon at Kitchen Creek as Greg Ward and Bob Crowe went to a sudden-death tie-breaker to determine the men’s title at the annual club championship.
Although the Muskie ‘B’ football team went winless last year, co-coach Bob Fryer, in his first season at the helm, remains optimistic of the campaign ahead.
Fryer, who took over the junior program along with Don Canfield, replaces his son, Ron, who was the team’s head coach last season.
The Fort Frances Selects were eliminated from further contention at the Thunder Bay invitational soccer tournament Sunday with a 3-0 loss to Thunder Bay Polonia.
Polonia had a steady offensive attack in the quarter-final match-up, scoring a goal in the first half, then adding another early in the second half on a penalty kick.
