The 30-member All-Southern U.P. high school baseball team has been announced, covering teams in Delta, Dickinson, Schoolcraft, Alger and Menominee Counties. It was selected by members of the media after consulting with area coaches. Escanaba pitcher Hunter Lancour was named the region's Most Valuable Player. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School boys golf team cruised to the MHSAA Division Three boys golf Upper Peninsula championship on Thursday at the Highland Golf Course. NCA, behind medalist Bryson Mercier, was 47 strokes clear of second place Ontonagon. Click the above headline for details.
The Norway High School baseball team took both ends of a doubleheader from the North Central Jets, 5-0 and 10-0, Monday evening at Marion Park. The Knights' pitchers allowed only one total base hit in the twinbill. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportwriters and Sportscasters Association announced its 2021-22 high school boys basketball All-U.P. teams Friday night. Media members from across the U.P. met in Marquette earlier this week to make their selections. Click the above headline for details.
The Menominee High School boys basketball team captured its first regional championship since 2008 Wednesday night by beating Benzie Central, 60-56, in double overtime. At the same time, Escanaba and North Central lost their title games. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula is home to three high school wrestling state champions, as well as two state runners-up. Drew Allgeyer of Bark River-Harris, and Parker Stroud and Shawn McGuire of Iron Mountain, all won titles Saturday at Ford Field in Detroit. BR-H’s Dillon Raab and Iron Mountain’s Tyler Winch were runners-up. Click the above headline for details
The MHSAA individual wrestling state finals began on Friday at Ford Field in Detroit, and when the dust settled, five U.P. boys advanced to the championship round of their brackets. And two of them will face each other for the state title. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School wrestling dominated in the lower weight classes and beat a shorthanded Bark River-Harris Broncos team, 48-33, to wrap up a triangular meet in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team eeked out a 45-36 win over the Marinette Marines in a dual meet Wednesday night in Escanaba. It was part of a triangular with the host Eskymos. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
North Central High School senior Wyatt Raab, a member of the two-time state champion Jets, signed his National Letter of Intent Wednesday to attend school and play football at Alma College in Lower Michigan. Click the above headline for details,
The Escanaba High School wrestling team opened a triangular meet Wednesday night with a 48-34 win over the Marinette Marines from Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details, and for photos and video highlights from those seven matches.
The Bark River-Harris wrestling team won twice at a quad meet on their home mat Thursday, beating Munising, 60-24, and Kingsford 59-24. Kingsford defeated Gwinn 39-0 and Munising defeated Gwinn 42-6 in the other matches. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Gladstone Braves won the Upper Peninsula wrestling championship on Saturday, taking six individual first place finishes in outdistancing second place Iron Mountain, 212-175. Escanaba was third with 155 points, and Bark River-Harris was fourth with 144. Click the above headline to see the results.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team won a pair of dual meets Thursday night as they prepared for this Saturday's Upper Peninsula Finals. Escanaba beat Negaunee, 46-30, and then turned back Westwood, 60-12. Click the above headline to see photos and videos.
The North Central Jets tuned up for this Friday's big game in Menominee by racing to a 27-10 lead and beating the Rapid River Rockets, 70-44, Monday night in Powers. Click the above headline to read details and to see photos, video highlights.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team won a pair of matches from their Delta County rivals Thursday night, turning back Bark River-Harris, 51-26, and Escanaba, 46-36. The Broncos topped Escanaba in the other triangular match, 50-27. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and player/coach interviews.
The Iron Mountain Mountaineers had five individual champions and edged the Escanaba Eskymos to win the annual Elks Wrestling Invitational on Saturday in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, video clips.
The North Central Jets boys basketball team outscored the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 23-8, in the third quarter and posted a 60-41 win Tuesday night in Harris. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and listen to post-game interviews.
The North Central Jets boys basketball team scored the first 15 points of the game Monday night and rolled to a 66-37 win over the Stephenson Eagles in the season-opener in Stephenson. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Three members of the state champion North Central Jets have been named to the Associated Press All-State football team. Quarterback Luke Gorzinski was named the Player of the Year for the entire state. Click the above headline to see the list.
The North Central Jets rolled to another MHSAA Eight Man state football championship on Saturday, beating the Colon Magi, 63-0, at the Superior Dome. It was the second straight state championship for NCA and it was the 13th straight mercy-rule victory in an undefeated season. Click the above headline for details, interviews.
The North Central High School football team held its final practice on its home field in Powers Wednesday night as the Jets get ready to face the Colon Magi in the state championship game on Saturday. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and hear interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announced its All-U.P. football awards Monday night, and the North Central Jets swept all of the major awards, including Team of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year. Click the above headline to see all of the award winnes.
The North Central Jets football team fell behind for the first time this season on Saturday, but scored 66 unanswered points to roll past Marion in the state semifinals, 73-8, in Powers. Click the above headline for details and hear post-game interviews.
The defending state champion North Central Jets rolled to a playoff victory on Saturday, beating the Pellston Hornets, 64-14, in Powers. Wyatt Raab rushed for three touchdowns and had a pick-six interception score. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central Jets on Saturday did whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, and dominated the Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes, 65-0, at the North Central field. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and video highlights.
The North Central High School football team is ready to try defending last winter's state championship as practice has begun for the 2021 season. The Jets lost eight seniors off last year's team, but returns the core bunch that went went undefeated in 2020-21. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and listen to player interviews.
A rally designed to convince Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to allow indoor contact sports to immediately begin was held in Lansing on Saturday, with hundreds, perhaps thousands, in attendance. And there were U.P. kids, coaches, and parents on hand. Click the above headline for details.
North Central High School graduate Dawson Bilski scored his 1,000th career point Tuesday as the Michigan Tech Huskies topped the Northern Michigan Wildcats, 61-52, in Marquette. Click the above headline to read details. (MTU Athletics Photo)
The North Central High School football team battled adversity and a strong Portland St. Patrick squad Saturday and capped an undefeated season with a state championship. The Jets topped the Shamrocks, 70-48, inside the Legacy Sports Complex in downstate Brighton. Wyatt Raab scored four touchdowns. Click the above headline for details.
