Will the real Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team please stand up?
Is it the talented squad that can beat you with an array of powerful hits from the power or middle positions, or the one that folds like a cheap tent?
Head coach Adrian Chapman, desperately searching for answers with this year’s team, is hoping it’s the former.
The Muskie junior girls’ basketball finished third at a tournament in Thunder Bay last weekend after dumping Fort William Collegiate 35-16.
It was all over practically after the opening tip-off, with the black-and-gold jumping out to a commanding 22-4 halftime lead.
Carling Barton and Danielle McGee led the way with eight points each.
With the Muskie senior girls’ basketball team uncharacteristically off to a slow start against the host Kenora Broncos last Thursday, head coach Gord McCabe elected to call a time-out.
Looking sluggish and uninspired, he felt they needed a break. And it wound up being their most important time-out of the season.
There were two questions heading into last Friday’s showdown here between the first-place Muskies and the third-place Dryden Eagles.
First, could the black-and-gold stop Dryden’s vaunted rushing attack led by star running back Byron McKenzie? And second, could the Eagles stop the Muskies?
The answer was yes to the first question—and no to the second.
In Atom action, the Emo Selects were back on the winning trail after blowing out visiting Causeway (Fort Frances) 14-1.
Eric Soucy led the Selects’ attack with four goals while Beis Strachan and Ryan Witherspoon each had hat tricks. Brian Wayash (two), Matt Badiuk, and Nathan Brigham rounded out the scoring.
Matthew Plante replied for Causeway in the second.
After weeks of hard work and several losses along the way, the Muskie ‘C’ football team finally did something they hadn’t done all season.
They won a football game.
The Muskies drubbed the International Falls Broncos ‘C’ team 26-0 in an exhibition game here last Friday afternoon. Head coach Rob Tysz said it was a perfect ending to the season.
The Roseau Rams came out like a new team—literally—against the Muskie “Bee” football team in the second half of their game there last Thursday.
With the Muskies leading 8-6 at halftime on a 30-yard touchdown by Kevin Gemmell on a reverse, the Rams suddenly got bigger, faster, and stronger after the break en route to a 34-8 win.
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.
