When Gord McCabe's gang found their footwork, it started putting the boot to its opponent.
Grace Petsnick had a game-high 18 points as the Muskie junior girls' basketball team opened the NorWOSSA regular season with a 49-29 victory over the host Kenora Broncos on Tuesday.
“We started slowly and played pretty uninspired defence in the first quarter,” conceded McCabe.
When the Muskie boys' hockey team last was on the ice, it saw its dream of winning the OFSAA 'A/AA' championship on home ice dashed in heart-wrenching fashion.
This season's edition of the black-and-gold has clear ambitions to erase the memories of that heartbreak—and they're off to a good start in that regard.
Any panic buttons in Wayne Strachan's office remain unpushed at the present time.
The head coach and general manager of the Fort Frances Lakers wasn't about to get all worked up over an 0-3-0-1 record in the SIJHL pre-season, which ended with the Lakers dropping both ends of a home-and-home series against the English River Miners over the weekend.
Dan Bird expected scoring to be a sore spot for his team this season.
So far, he looks to be a soothsayer.
The co-coach of the Muskie senior girls' basketball team watched his squad exceed 21 points just once in four games as they went 1-3 to finish tied for fourth with the Churchill Trojans in Pool 'B' of a tournament in Thunder Bay over the weekend.
Every coach wants his or her players to get better each time out.
The Muskie golf team did exactly that last Tuesday yet still didn't reap what should have been its just rewards.
The Kenora Broncos' ground game left the Muskie football team grounded.
Kenora broke open a close game with three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to pull away with a 36-0 shutout in the Muskies' home-opener Friday afternoon.
This season's edition of the Muskie girls' hockey team will be saturated with experience as they go for their fifth-straight NorWOSSA championship.
All nine forwards are returnees, as are four of the five blueliners at this point and both goalies.
Here are the sunrise and sunset times for Sept. 21-27:
In what was his first game as a high school coach, and the first at that level for many of his players, Zac Tolen was taking a wait-and-see attitude beforehand.
Make way for the “Muskie Express.”
The black-and-gold rolled through its opponents like a freight train at full steam during a pre-season junior girls' basketball tournament hosted by the Dryden Eagles over the weekend.
It was all Fort High from the get-go at the four-team round-robin event as the Muskies went 3-0 to capture the title—winning every game by at least 19 points.
