Wolves boys basketball team starts 2025-26 season with a loss

North Star’s Ashton Fevreau (white jersey) shoots as he is surrounded by three Erie Migration players last Tuesday night in Amherstburg.

The North Star Wolves senior boys basketball team are putting a predominantly new team on the court this year but their first game did not result in a win.

The Wolves dropped a 60-50 decision to the visiting Erie Migration Coyotes Dec. 2 at North Star. While Erie Migration led throughout most of the game, the Wolves were never out of it as they clawed back whenever they faced a deficit.

Erie Migration had a 15-12 lead after one quarter and the Kingsville-based high school expanded it to a 34-24 halftime advantage, but the Wolves had a strong third quarter and cut it to 45-41 heading into the final quarter.

“It was a great showing from the guys,” said North Star coach Griffin Muzzin. “Kingsville came out and played a great game.”

Muzzin acknowledged there are a lot of new faces on this year’s Wolves team, as there are only two Grade 12 players this season. Thirteen players from last year’s team have graduated.

“It’s a young group,” he said.

Muzzin is hopeful they will come together as a group over the next nine games, but emphasized he was proud of the effort against Erie Migration as the Wolves kept coming back and being competitive.

“That’s basketball,” he stated. “They made a run, then we made a run.”

The goal this season is to make it into the WECSSAA “AA” playoffs.

“We’ll see where we go from there,” he said.

Team captain Ashton Fevreau said the Wolves had one week of practice heading into the game and predicts they will play better as a group as the season progresses. They need to work with each other better and slow the pace down, he noted, but said North Star has a lot of heart.

The Wolves had a pair of games this week, one at home and one on the road. They were in Amherstburg last night (Dec. 9) against L’Essor after this issue of the River Town Times went to press and will be in Essex Thursday (Dec. 11) for a 4 p.m. tip-off against the Red Raiders. They play in Windsor against Lamothe-Cadillac Dec. 16 at 5:30 p.m. before heading to LaSalle to play Sandwich Dec. 17 at 4 p.m., in their final game before the Christmas break.

They don’t return to North Star until Jan. 15, when they host Belle River at 5:30 p.m. 

Wolves boys basketball team starts 2025-26 season with a loss

By Ron Giofu