Coaches often say the way a football team practices during the week before a game is often an indication of how well they will play.
Bad practices. Bad games.
The Muskies had a bad week of practice. They also went out and played a very bad football game last Friday night in Greenbush, Mn., coming home on the short end of a 35-14 decision.
There were a lot of happy hunters in the area as moose and deer season opened earlier this month—which didn’t surprise the local Ministry of Natural Resources.
“It seemed to be hot and cold,” Dave Saunders, MNR’s acting enforcement supervisor, said Friday morning. “It depended on where you were but a lot were successful. The camps seem to do well.
If you take a new rink that just began practising together a week before an event and put it up against some of the top curlers in Canada and the U.S., you shouldn’t expect the best of results.
And there weren’t any this past weekend for the Raymond Roy foursome at the 29th-annual Sun Life Grand Prix at the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay.
Fresh off a solid second-place finish at a tournament in Atikokan over the weekend, the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team continued its winning ways yesterday afternoon with a victory over the Dryden Eagles in NorWOSSA action here.
The Muskies had little trouble beating the Eagles, decimated by the loss of several players, 3-1 in their best-of-five showdown.
With the Muskie junior girls’ basketball team showing a strong ability to handle the more simplistic defensive systems in the early going of the season, head coach Gord McCabe decided to make a change.
He elected to go with a new 1-2-2 zone press—much more complicated than most junior teams are accustomed to seeing and the results were confusing.
They say the best offence is a good defence, and that’s propelled the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team to a perfect 5-0 record in NorWOSSA action so far this season.
The squad’s latest win was a convincing 47-17 shellacking over Dryden here yesterday afternoon. Their new trap press bottled up the Eagles all afternoon and created a barrage of turnovers.
The big play cost the Muskie ‘C’ football team in more ways than one last Thursday against the host International Falls Broncos.
In the first half, quarterback Andrew George was picked off near midfield and returned all the way back to the Muskie end zone for a 6-0 lead (the extra point try failed).
The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team learned a valuable lesson at the Pizza Hut tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend.
Blessed with a very talented squad this year, the Muskies sometimes can get away with playing a mediocre game against weaker teams. But when they’re on the floor against one of the top teams in the area, they’d better be ready.
There was no place like home turf for cross-country runners from Crossroads School in Devlin last week.
Crossroads hosted the annual Rainy River District Cross-Country Race last Wednesday, with six runners topping their respective divisions as well as taking six team awards.
The Muskie senior girls’ basketball team sits atop NorWOSSA with a perfect 4-0 record midway through the season after their most recent victory—a 41-28 decision over the Kenora Broncos here last Wednesday.
Head coach Gord McCabe hasn’t been seen smiling this much—at least on the basketball court—for quite some time.
