Lillie Johnson scored 25 points, crossing 1,000 for her Gladstone Braves career, as she helped her team post a 51-47 win over the defending state champion Ishpeming Hematites Tuesday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and post-game reaction.
The Ishpeming Hematites are your MHSAA Division Two Upper Peninsula girls tennis champions after sneaking past West Iron County and Norway to take the title on Wednesday. Ishpeming had 13 points, West Iron 12, and Norway ten. The Hematites took championships in three of the four doubles flights. Click the above headline for details. (IHS photo)
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 Ishpeming High School girls basketball team fell behind early, but recovered to pull past Kingston, 73-54, to win the MHSAA Division Four state championship Saturday in East Lansing. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA photo, story)
The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team got 30 points from Jenna Maki, 22 of them in the first half, and the Hematites rolled past the Fowler Eagles, 75-40, in the MHSAA Division Four state semifinals Thursday night at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the MHSAA. (MHSAA photo)
The St. Ignace High School boys basketball program won its first regional championship in two decades Wednesday night, ending the Cinderella run of the Ishpeming Hematites, 62-38, at the Gladstone High School Gym. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Six Upper Peninsula high school wrestlers will go for state championships on Saturday at the Michigan High School Athletic Association's individual championships at Detroit's Ford Field. Click the above headline to read all of the details.
The Upper Peninsula will be well-represented next month at the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Individual state finals at Ford Field in Detroit. The results from the individual regional tournaments on Saturday around northern Michigan ended with 28 UP Wrestlers qualifying. Click the above headline for details, photos.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team hosted a quad meet Monday night inside the “other” half of the program's co-op: North Central High School. The match was moved from the original site, Menominee, which has not had any classes or sporting events in its school all year long due to mold damage. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
Caden Luoma scored 18 points to lead the Ishpeming Hematites to a 55-46 win over the Gladstone Braves Tuesday night in Gladstone. The Hematites held the Braves to just 16 points in the first half, and then withstood a Gladstone comeback attempt in the fourth quarter. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The American Legion Zone 5 Tournament continued on Friday as eight games took place in Gladstone and Escanaba. Marquette, Escanaba, Copper Country, and Gladstone advanced to the semifinal game. Click the above headline for more 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 Gladstone High School football team lost by one point for the third time this season Friday night, falling to the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils, 15-14, at the Marble Athletic Field. Cole Hawker kicked three field goals, including the game-winner with 31.1 seconds left, and the Braves threw two interceptions in the red zone to stop scoring drives. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
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.
Nicole Kamin scored 31 points and Taylor Ray added 15 as the Escanaba High School girls basketball team beat the Ishpeming Hematites, 72-50, Thursday in Escanaba. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Ishpeming High School boys basketball team shook off a horrendous start and beat the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 67-56, Monday night. It was the first ever meeting between the schools. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos.
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 Gladstone Braves slipped past the Ishpeming Hematites, 42-35, in girls basketball action Thursday night. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Ishpeming High School football team scored 46 points in the first quarter and rolled to a 54-13 win over the Bark River-Harris Broncos Thursday night in Harris. The Hematites finished their regular season with a perfect 9-0 record. The Broncos finished the season at 2-7. Click the above headline to see photos, video clips.
The St. Ignace High School girls basketball team captured the Class C regional championship, beating the Ishpeming Hematites, 70-56, Thursday night in Escanaba. Four players scored in double figures. Click the above headline to read details.
Madigan Johns hit four straight free throws in the closing seconds as the Ishpeming Henatites topped the West Iron County Wykons, 59-55, in the Class C regional semifinals Tuesday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos.
Ozzy Corp scored three touchdowns, including the game-winner in the fourth quarter, and the Ishpeming Hematites held on to beat Pewamo-Westphalia, 22-16, to win the MHSAA Division Seven state championship Saturday at Ford Field. Click the above headline to read the story from MHSAA.
The third time was the charm for the Detroit Loyola High School football team on Saturday at Ford Field. After losing to the Ishpeming Hematites in each of the last two Division Seven state championship games, Loyola finally got a trophy by posting a 29-8 win. Click the above headline for the details, courtesy of the MHSAA.
The St. Ignace High School girls basketball team showed why it is one of the top-ranked teams in the state Tuesday night. The Saints raced to a 16-0 lead and beat the Ishpeming Hematites, 66-30, in the Class C regional semifinal. Click the above headline to read more details, and to see photos and videos.
As 2014 begins, here's a look back at an extremely emotional 17 months for Ishpeming's Jeff Olson. He suffered the tragedy of his son's suicide and played a part in Eric Dompierre's long battle to be able to play beyond his 19th birthday. But then came two state football championships in a row, and a new job as the head coach of the Hematite varsity basketball team. Click the above headline to read more.
The Ishpeming High School football team repeated as Division Seven state champions on Saturday, beating Detroit Loyola, 22-12, at Ford Field. Click the above headline to read the game story and statistics. You can also watch a replay of the game, and the post-game press conferences, provided by the MHSAA.
Eric Kostreva scored three touchdowns to lead the Ishpeming Hematites to a 20-14 win over Detroit Loyola Saturday to win the Division Seven state championship at Ford Field. An emotional Hematites team pulled one of the biggest upsets in MHSAA championship history, beating the state's top-ranked team that was filled with future college talent. Click the above headline to read the story.
Three Upper Peninsula high school football teams played in state semifinal action on Saturday. The Ishpeming Hematites beat Pewamo-Westphalia, 8-7, to advance to next week's state championship game in Detroit. The Menominee Maroons lost a heartbreaker to Grand Rapids West Catholic, 20-17, and the St. Ignace Saints were beaten by Beal City, 25-7. Click the above headline to read recaps of all three games.
The magazine Sports Illustrated is running a series titled "Underdogs: Inspiring Stories in High School Football". And this week's episode, dated September 18th, highlights Ishpeming Hematite Senior Eric Dompierre. Click the above headline to see the video and the page that SI set up about Dompierre and the Hematites.
