The Westwood High School football team scored two quick touchdowns before the Gladstone offense even touched the ball, and the Patriot defense did the rest in a 20-0 win over the Braves on Homecoming at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to radio interviews.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos football team jumped to a 22-0 lead and cruised past the Westwood Patriots, 40-18, Friday night in Bark River. Quarterback Dane Schmitt had three touchdown passes, and Gabe Spear had a monster game on both offense and defense. Click the above headline for photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba High School girls tennis team had a busy day on Tuesday in Marquette County, playing two matches back-to-back. The Eskymos played to a 4-4 draw with the Marquette Sentinels, and lost a tough match to the Westwood Patriots, 5-3. Click the above headline for details, scores from the matches.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on Friday releeasesd its All-U.P. boys basketball teams. A group of 18 reporters from across the entire U.P. met earlier in the week in Marquette to make the selections. Westwood Patriots senior Ethan Marta was chosen as Mr. Basketball, along with being the Division 1-3 Player of the Year and member of the all-class Dream Team. Dollar Bay senior Liam Tourtillott was named the Division Four Player of the Year. Click the above headline to see all of the winners. (MHSAA Photo)
The Escanaba High School Gym was full of spikes and digs on Saturday as the annual Elks Invitational was held on a hot, humid day. Ten teams played four pool matches, and the top four teams advanced to the semifinals. Escanaba defeated Ishpeming, Forest Park defeated Cheboygan, and then Forest Park won the championship over Escanaba, 2-0. Click the above headline for all of the scores, photos, videos.
Another Upper Peninsula high school football team has forfeited a game because of a lack of healthy boys to field a team. The Westwood Patriots announced on Wednesday that it will not be able to play the Negaunee Miners this Friday night. The game was going to be Negaunee's homecoming game.
Owen Gereau scored four touchdowns and Trevor Thorbahn added two scores as the Gladstone Braves overcame a great first half by Westwood quarterback Ethan Marta to beat the Patriots, 59-22, Friday night, at Westwood High School.
The Negaunee High School girls tennis team won the Mid Peninsula Conference championship on Thursday. The Miners had 44 points, with Westwood second at 36 points. Negaunee won six of the eight championship flights: Lili Saunders, Rheana Nelson, and Addi Chapman in singles. The doubles teams of Nicole Kerkela and Clare O'Donnell; Olivia Richards and Sadie Rogers; and Paige O'Donnell and Maia Brunette also won championships. Ishpeming (20 points) finished third on the team scoreboard. Norway (14 points) was fourth and Iron Mountain (4 points) finished fifth.
The Negaunee Miners won their third straight MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula girls tennis championship on Wednesday, taking six of the eight flights in Escanaba and Gladstone. Westwood was runners up. Click the above headline for the details.
The Westwood Patriots football team beat the Gladstone Braves, 42-15, Friday night, in a game featuring two teams with short benches caused by injuries. Westwood got two touchdowns and a pair of two-point conversions from Karter Scherer, and the Patriots offense forced four second half turnovers. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Negaunee High School girls tennis team picked up another Mid Peninsula Conference championship on Thursday, edging the Westwood Patriots for the MPC title, heading into next week's MHSAA Division One championships in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves football team earned an easy 49-8 win over the Westwood Patriots Friday night in West Ishpeming, but the Braves paid a heavy price for the win when senior running back Austin Solis suffered a leg injury that may sideline him for the rest of the season. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team shook off a sluggish first half and beat the Westwood Patriots, 63-50, Tuesday night in Gladstone. The Braves won back-to-back games for te first time this season. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
On its home courts, the host Westwood boys tennis team claimed the Upper Peninsula Division 2 title by winning four flights and making the finals in all eight Thursday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (Story, photo courtesy of MHSAA)
The Upper Peninsula Sportwriters and Sportscasters Association announced its 2021-22 high school girls basketball All-U.P. teams Thursday night. The media members from across the U.P. met in Marquette earlier this week to make their selections. Click the above headline for details.
Five players scored in double figures Monday night as the Escanaba Eskymos pulled away from the Westwood Patriots in a non-conference showdown, 68-50. Westwood's Zach Carlson scored 24 points and crossed 1,000 points for his career. Click the above headline for details.
The Westwood Patriots won the MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula girls tennis championship on Wednesday. They finished with 20 points. Negaunee was second with 15 and Escanaba third with 12. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Westwood Patriots and Gladstone Braves went back and forth all night long before the Patriots picked up a road victory over the Braves, 3-2. The scores were 20-25, 25-15, 24-26, 25-15, and 15-8. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Westwood Patriots rolled to a big first quarter lead and allowed only one first down on defense, and beat the Manistique Emeralds, 44-0, Thursday night in Manistique. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team scored early and often Monday night as they beat the Westwood Patriots, 79-61, in Gladstone. Noah Ballard scored 22 points, Rane Castor added 20, and Mike Hagebusch scored a career-high 14 points in the win. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and hear interviews.
The Michigan Wrestling Association's girls high school state championships were hosted Sunday by Adrian College, featuring 265 wrestlers from around the state, including seven from the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline to see how they did.
The Westwood Patriots won their fourth straight MHSAA Division Two Upper Peninsula girls championship on Wednesday in Kingsford. The Patriots had 22 points, followed by West Iron County (15) and Iron Mountain (11). Click the above headline for details.
The Westwood High School girls tennis team picked up two victories in Delta County on Monday, beating Escanaba, 8-0, then topping Gladstone, 7-1, later in the day. Gladstone's Andie Balenger won at #1 singles. Click the above headline for more.
The Westwood Patriots slipped past the West Iron County Wykons, 20-19, to win the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division Two championship on Thursday. The Patriots won five of the eight flights, including three of the four singles championships. The Wykons won the other three flights. Iron Mountain was a distant third. Click the above headline for results.
Five high schools that currently compete in the Mid Peninsula Conference have applied for membership in the West PAC Conferene. Athletic Directors met on Wednesday to talk about it. Click the above headline to read the press release about the meeting.
