Ontario’s decision to drop its overnight fishing rule for non-residents will top the agenda at the Northwestern Ontario Tourism Association’s annual fall meeting and banquet Friday in Emo.
With the Muskie football team as dominating as it’s been in NorWOSSA play all season, opposing teams had to keep their mistakes to a minimum in order to stay in the game.
Time and time again, the black-and-gold would quickly capitalize on a turnover or blocked punt to score a touchdown to turn the tide.
Facing the Kenora Broncos in the semi-finals of an eight-team senior boys’ tournament there Saturday, the Muskies admitted they were a bit leery heading into the matchup.
But once they got onto the floor, any worries quickly evaporated as they blew away their NorWOSSA rivals in two-straight games by scores of 25-12 and 25-17.
Gib Tucker has stepped forward to put in his application to coach the local Midget “AA” Canadians hockey team this season, the Times learned yesterday morning.
The team, to begin its second season, was left without a coach after Dave Allison resigned to accept a position behind the bench with the Fort Wayne Komets of the United Hockey League.
The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team are looking at today’s final regular-season match against the Kenora Broncos here as a springboard to the playoffs.
The team will finish in second-place regardless of today’s outcome, and meet the third-place Dryden Eagles in the NorWOSSA semi-final up there Nov. 12.
Playing in their first tournament of the season, Mine Centre 1 showed they were in mid-season form as they cruised to the championship title of an eight-team tourney at Robert Moore on Saturday.
Mine Centre 1—made up of players in grades seven and eight—put the finishing touches on a solid day of volleyball by dumping St. Francis 2 in two-straight games (15-3 and 15-7).
Life couldn’t be any better for the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team heading into the final game of the regular season today against Kenora.
They go into it having already clinched first place and a bye in the NorWOSSA final next week. They also sport a perfect league record—their latest victory coming last Thursday in Dryden by a 41-31 score.
With several players out of the lineup for various reasons, last Friday’s game here against the Kenora Broncos definitely was gut-check time for the black-and-gold.
It was their toughest test of the NorWOSSA campaign so far—and they passed it with flying colours.
The afternoon began with the Muskie senior football team smashing a pumpkin bearing the #20 on the sidelines in reference to stopping Byron McKenzie, the Dryden Eagles’ star running back.
It continued with calls of “Stop the pumpkin!” by the Muskie defence before the snap of the ball throughout the game.
It ended with a skirmish involving three assistant coaches.
Matthew Smith finished in second place in the boys’ three-km race at the 28th-annual Mid-Canada Legion Elementary School cross-country showdown Saturday at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay.
Smith, who attends Our Lady of the Way School in Stratton, crossed the finish line in a time of 12:53—just 11 seconds behind winner Shawn Woodrow of Manitouwadge Public School.
