The Marquette High School boys soccer team opened the 2025 season with five matches against strong downstate competition this weekend, and ended up winning three matches, losing one, and another ending in a scoreless draw. One of the wins was against Fruitport, the team that eliminated Marquette in the regionals in each of the past two years.
The Marquette Sentinels edged the Escanaba Eskymos to win the MHSAA Division One boys UP championship on Wednesday at the Sage Run Golf Course. The Sentinels won by eleven strokes (311-322), to repeat as UP Champions. Junior Boden Moore shot a two-under 70 to win medalist honors. Westwood senior Tanner Annala was runner-up, finishing three strokes back with a 73, and Iron Mountain’s Cooper Pigeon was third with a 77. The Eskymos’ top golfer was sophomore Carson Artley, who was seventh after shooting a 79. (MHSAA photo)
There was plenty of drama Thursday night as the Gladstone Braves met the Marquette Sentinels in high school baseball at Gerard Haley Field. In a game that saw more errors than base hits or runs, the Braves rallied on their final out to force extra innings and then beat Marquette, 5-3, in the eighth inning. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association has released its list of the region’s top high school boys basketball teams, coaches, and players. A group of 18 reporters from every corner of the U.P. met at Northern Michigan University on Monday to come up with the awards list. The list was released Friday night. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula high school hockey season has wrapped up. Click the above headline to see the scores for the ten U.P. teams.
The Escanaba High School hockey team ended nine years of frustration against their biggest rival Friday night, beating Marquette, 3-1, at the Wells Sports Complex. The win broke a 17-game losing streak for the Eskymos against the Redmen, and now the Sentinels, dating back to November 26, 2016. Click the above headline for details. (LIzzie Taylor photo)
THe Marquette Sentinels soccer team had its season come to an end Tuesday night with a 402 loss to Fruitport in the MHSAA regional semifinals at Gaylord High School. Click the above headline for details. (Mary Sysko/MSHS photos)
The Marquette Sentinels boys varsity soccer team hosted the Petoskey Northman for the district championship at the Kaufman Sports Complex Saturday in Marquette. The Sentinels dominated rom start-to-finish, winning, 6-0. Click the abpve headline for details. (Mary Sysko photo)
The Marquette Senior High School boys soccer team shut out three opponents on Saturday at a tournament in Alpena, after also dominating a tournament down in Suttons Bay the previous week. Click the above headline to see recaps the matches, and photos taken by Mary Sysko.
The Upper Peninsula Sports Writers and Sportscasters Association came out Tuesday with its first high school football polls of the season. A panel of five members of the media from across the U.P. votes every week on the best teams. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Sentinels football team rolled up 479 yards of total offense and dominated the Gladstone Braves, 55-0, in the season-opener Thursday night in Marquette. Click the above headline for details, interviews, and photos taken by Brad Landis.
The Marquette Sentinels boys varsity soccer team traveled to Sault Ste. Marie on Wednesday night and posted an easy 8-0 win on the mercy rule. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School boys soccer team traveled to Iron Mountain for the season opener Tuesday night, and got the mercy rule win at the six-minute mark of the second half with a 10-2 score. Click the above headline for details. (Mary Sysko photo)
The Marquette High School baseball team scored four runs in the first two innings and held on to beat the Gladstone Braves, 4-3. Click the above headline for details, listen to post-game interviews, and see photos and videos taken by GHS student Jayger Quinn.
The Escanaba Eskymos boys tennis team won three of the four doubles matches, and posted a 5-3 win over the Marquette Sentinels Monday afternoon in Escanaba. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos from several of the matches.
Connor Stade scored two goals, Nash Rippi added a goal and a three-assist playmaker, and Tony DeMattia registered four assists, as the Marquette High School hockey team defeated the Escanaba Eskymos, 7-1, in the MHSAA Division Three Regional Semifinals Thursday night at Lakeview Arena. Click the thumbnails for photos, videos, taken by Lizzie Taylor.
The North-South High School Hockey Showcase wrapped up Saturday in snowbound Traverse City, with three Upper Peninsula teams in action. And there was extra hockey for all three U.P. teams as Escanaba, Kingsford, and Marquette playing overtime. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Marquette High School boys basketball team went on two runs in the second half to build a lead, and then cruised to a 63-56 Great Northern Conference win over the Escanaba Eskymos Tuesday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos came within an inch of forcing overtime Tuesday night, but a shot off of the crossbar allowed Marquette to hang on for a 2-1 win at Lakeview Arena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
Mother Nature was not kind for the Marquette High School soccer team, and Lady Luck wasn't either, as the boys faced the Fruitport Trojans in an MHSAA Division Two regional semifinal game in Gaylord late Tuesday night. Marquette lost the game, 2-0. Click the above headline for details. (MSHS Photo by Michelle Grunert)
The Marquette High School boys soccer team made history on Saturday, winning a MHSAA District Championship with a dramatic win over Petoskey on penalty kicks. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos courtesy of MSHS soccer.
The Marquette High School boys varsity soccer team made the most of the new ability to take part in the MHSAA State tournament. Marquette beat Alpena, 3-0, Tuesday afternoon, at the Kaufman Sports Complex. Click the above headline for details. (Mary Sysko photo)
The Kingsford Flivvers beat the Marquette Redmen, 2-1, in an intense boys soccer title game to win the Upper Peninsula championship. The match went past regulation time tied at 1-1, and after overtime solved nothing, it went to penalty kicks to decide it. Click the above headline for details. (MSHS Soccer Photo)
The Marquette High School boys soccer team got a pair of goals from Kaleb Chipelewski, plus three points from Charlie Hrodey, in a 4-2 win over Iron Mountain Tuesday night. Click the above headline for details. (MSHS photo by Mary Sysko)
The Marquette High School varsity boys soccer team won the championship of a tournament in downstate Suttons Bay over the weekend. The boys slipped by Gaylord, 1-0, beat Harbor Springs, 2-0, and then smacked Kalkaska in the championship game, 6-1. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos taken by Mary Sysko.
Canyon Medina and Charlie Hrodey both scored a pair of goals as the Marquette High School boys soccer team smacked the Houghton Gremins, 7--, on Tuesday. Click the above headline for details. Photo and story courtesy of MSHS Soccer.
The Marquette High School soccer team hosted Sault Ste. Marie Thursday night at Kaufman Sports Complex. Marquette won the game 5-0. Click the above headline for details. (Mary Sysko photo)
The Marquette High School boys soccer team lost in Kingsford, 3-1, Tuesday night, after beating Iron Mountain, 6-0, before the holiday weekend. Marquette is now 3-3 on the season, heading into Thursday's game against Sault Ste. Marie. (Mary Sysko photo)
A fundraiser was launched this weekend in Marquette, selling “I GOT YOU” T-Shirts, hoodies, and hats, with all proceeds going to help the Marquette Senior High School football team with its travel expenses. It's in the name of Jordan DeMay. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School football team dominated in all three phases of the game Friday night and vlew past Marquette, 36-7, in the season opner at the Marble Athletic Field. Nate Young intercepted three passes on defense, including one for a touchdown, and he had a hand in three touchdowns on offense. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
