The Rapid River High School volleyball team won its second match of the season Thursday night, outlasting the rival Mid Peninsula Wolverines, 3-2, in a marathon match at Mid Pen High School. The scores were 23-25, 25-20, 26-24, 21-25, 15-12. The Rockets program did not win a match in 2022, 2023, or 2024.
The Mid Peninsula High School football team is looking for bigger and better things after the 2022 season ended with a 2-7 record. It was the first season for Mid Pen's revived football program after the small northern Delta County school went years without having a team of its own. Click the above headline for details and interviews.
The Mid Peninsula High School boys golf team captured the MHSAA Division Three Upper Peninsula championship on Wednesday, and it was mostly a family affair. Click the above headline for details, and to hear interviews.
The Mid Peninsula Wolverines football team played on its home field for the first time since October of 2012, hosting the Brimley Bays Friday night. The new Mid Pen team trailed just 18-12 in the second quarter before Brimley pulled away to win, 66-18. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Mid Peninsula High School football program died in 2012 as numbers in the small Delta County school district dwindled. But not so fast. The Wolverine program has been resurrected, and the boys will be on the field in Perkins this fall. Click the above headline to read more about the program, and see photos and videos from this week's practice.
Tyler Sundling scored 28 points and broke the 1,000 point mark for his Rapid River career as the Rockets beat the Mid Peninsula Wolverines, 76-66, Friday night. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and video highlights.
The Bay College women's basketball program has signed a player for the 2020-21 season. Mid Peninsula High School's Kennedy Englund signed a National Letter of Intent on Tuesday to play for the Norse. She was a second team Division Four All-U.P. selection last winter after her junior season at Mid Peninsula, averaging 18.1 points per game. Englund also led the Wolverines to their first-sever district title in volleyball this month, and she ran cross-country this fall. (Mid Peninsula Schools photo)
The Mid Peninsula Wolverines cruised past the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 3-0, in high school volleyball action Monday night. The scores were 25-20, 25-15, and 25-21. Click the above headline to for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The North Dickinson Nordics scored the first 12 points of the third quarter to pull away from the Mid Peninsula Wolverines, 60-41, Friday night in Perkins. The Nordics led by as many as 23 points and held off a Mid Pen run that cut it to 11 in the fourth qaurter. Matthew Bruette had 28 points to lead ND (5-7). Zach Englund had 18 points and Dylan Trudell scored ten for Mid Pen (1-10). Click the above headline to see photos and videos.
The 2018 Upper Peninsula high school girls basketball post-season has come to an end. Click the above headline to see the of the season's results.
The Mid Peninsula Wolverines girls volleyball team lost the first two games, but roared back to win the final three to take the match, 3-2, Monday night in Harris. The scores were 19-25, 21-25, 25-13, 25-21, and 15-8. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The 2016-17 Upper Peninsula high school boys basketball season has come to an end. Click the above headline for the U.P. composite schedule and scores.
The high school girls basketball post-season has wrapped up for the Upper Peninsula's teams. Click the above headline to see all of the scores from 2016-'17.
The Rapid River Rockets rolled past the Big Bay deNoc Black Bears, 70-40; and the Mid Peninsula Wolverines eliminated the Superior Central Cougars, 69-48, as the Class D boys basketball district tournament began Monday night in Eben Junction. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and videos taken by Mike Dagenais.
The Gladstone High School basketball team used an up-tempo offense to score the game's first 15 points, and the Braves never let up on the gas, rolling to a 98-38 win over Mid Peninsula Thursday night in Perkins. Click the above headline to hear interviews, read game details, and to see photos and video highlights taken by Nate Bellville.
The Mid Peninsula Wolverines ramped up the defense Thursday night and topped the Rapid River Rockets, 53-47, at the Mid Pen Gym. Click the above headline to read game details, listen to interviews, and see photos and videos taken by Nate Bellville.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team built a double-digit lead in the first quarter and cruised to an 80-46 win over the Mid Peninsula Wolverines Monday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and to see videos taken by Mike Dagenais.
The Rapid River High School girls volleyball team won its first Class D district championship in a dozen years Thursday, 3-1, over Mid Peninsula in Garden Corners. Click the above headline for details, and all of the U.P. scores. (Photo by Michelle Rubick)
The Rapid River High School boys and girls track teams both won the championships of the Bark River Invitational Tuesday afternoon. Click the above headline to see photos taken by Lisa Anderson. (Pictured above: the start of the boys 1600 run)
The Mid Peninsula Wolverines had their season come to an end Monday night after the Forest Park Trojans posted a 73-45 victory in the Class D regional semifinals in Negaunee. In Class C, Norway topped Boyne City, 57-47, in a regional semifinal contest in Escanaba. Click the above headline to read the details of both tournament games.
Damian Richmond scored 21 points and Terry Brower added 20 as the Mid Peninsula Wolverines beat Big Bay deNoc, 54-36, in the Class D District Championship game Friday night in Perkins. It was Mid Pen's first district title since 1996. Click the above headline to read game details, listen to replays and interviews, and see photos and videos.
The Mid Peninsula Wolverines allowed just six points in the first quarter and nine more in the second, beating the Munising Mustangs, 48-36, in a Class D district game Wednesday night. Click the above headline for details, and photos, videos taken by Nate Bellville.
The North Central High School basketball team got off to a quick start and rolled to a 75-53 win over the Mid Peninsula Wolverines Thursday night in Powers. The Jets finish with a 20-0 record. Click the above headline for game details, interviews, photos, and videos.
The Mid Peninsula Wolverines made 13 three-point baskets, including six in the fourth quarter, but the Bark River-Harris Broncos held on to post a 58-56 win Tuesday night in Harris. Click the above headline for the details, and to see the game's photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team made 14 three-point baskets and cruised to an 81-56 win over the Mid Peninsula Wolverines Thursday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline to read the details, listen to radio interviews, and to see photos and videos taken by Nate Bellville.
Joe Gibbs had two electrifying slam dunks and Reece Csstor nailed two big three-point baskets to help the Gladstone Braves outlast the Mid Peninsula Wolverines, 62-49, Monday night in Perkins. Click the above headline to read game details, listen to radio interviews and replays, and see photos and videos taken by Nate Bellville.
Michigan Tech climbed all the way back from a 12-point deficit to start the fourth quarter into a one-point lead before Findlay made a 10-foot jumper as time expired for a 73-72 victory. Click the above headline to read details, courtesy of MTU Athletics.
The 2015 Upper Peninsula High School football season has moved into the playoffs. Click the above headline to see the playoff scores, plus all of the 2015 regular season scores.
Michigan Tech scored touchdowns on seven of its 12 offensive drives and added two more scores on special teams in a 63-23 victory at Lake Erie Saturday in both teams' season finale. The Huskies' offense exploded for 601 yards including 437 on the ground to earn the win and finish at 7-3 on the season. Click the above headline to read details from Saturday's game, courtesy of MTU Athletics.
The MHSAA Upper Peninsula Cross Country finals were held Saturday at the Beauchamp Farm near Gladstone. The meet featured more than three dozen schools, of all sizes, from across the U.P. Click the above headline to see the results.
