The Escanaba Eskymos won their second straight volleyball district championship Thursday night, 3-0, over the Houghton Gremlins. The scores were 25-20, 25-17, and 25-16. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
Northern Michigan University's swim and dive teams took part in a virtual 5,000 race, replacing the annual Open Water National Championships. Click the above headline for more.
The Escanaba Eskymos rolled past the Kingsford Flivvers, 3-0, in the MHSAA District tournament opener Tuesday night in Escanaba. The scores were 25-20, 25-17, 25-22. Click the above headline to see details, photos and video highlights.
The North Central Jets football team scored early and often on Saturday as they opened the MHSAA Eight-Man playoffs with a 74-6 win over the Engadine Eagles. Click the above headline for details, photos, interviews, and video highlights.
The COVID-19 shortened football season came to an end on Saturday for the Escanaba Eskymos, as they fell to the Alma Panthers, 28-14, in Lower Michigan. Brandon Frazer had two touchdown passes in a losing effort. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School football team opened the MHSAA Playoffs on Saturday with a 38-0 win over Muskegon Reeths Puffer. Click the above headline for details. (Nathan Larsh photo)
The Negaunee High School football team returned from a two-week COVID layoff to beat the Gladstone Braves, 28-14, in the MHSAA Division Six playoffs Friday in Gladstone. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and hear interviews.
Bryce Lundquist threw three touchdown passes to Max Lenaker, including a 76-yarder on fourth down late in the game, to help the Rapid River Rockets come back for a 30-26 win over the Rudyard Bulldogs in the MHSAA playoff opener on Thursday. Click the above headline for details, videos, photos, and interviews.
The Northern Michigan University hockey program and Western Collegiate Hockey Association have announced their league schedule for the 2020-21 season. The Wildcats season will consist of 18 conference matchups as well as nine non-conference games against WCHA opponents. Click the above headline to see the detailed schedule.
The Gwinn Model Towners and Bark River-Harris Broncos played a wild volleyball match Tuesday night before Gwinn went home with a 3-2 win. The scores were 31-29, 25-19, 22-25, 20-25, and 15-10. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
This Thursday's playoff football game between the Stephenson Eagles and Pickford Panthers has been cancelled. The Michigan High School Athletic Association has awarded the Panthers, the defending state champions, a forfeit victory.
The Michigan High School Association crowned its six Upper Peninsula champions in cross country on Saturday, as six different schools captured titles at three different sites. Click the above headline to read the details, via MHSAA.
Luke Gorzinski ran for four touchdowns and threw for another as the North Central Jets wrapped up a perfect regular season Saturday with a 50-8 win over the Stephenson Eagles. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Gladstone Braves scored the first two touchdowns of the game Friday night, but the Escanaba Eskymo defense pitched a shutout the rest of the way and Escanaba posted a 20-12 win at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association's Bush Award winners were announced by the association on Wednesday. Two of them have ties to the Upper Peninsula: Mark Mattson and Christian Wilson. Click the above headline to read details.
The Norse Cross Country Teams finished off their regular season schedule over the weekend in downstate Muskegon at the Jayhawk Invitational. A number of Bay harriers finished with their best times of the year. Click the above headline for details.
The Copper Country Christian High School soccer team won the Division Two Upper Peninsula championship over the weekend with a come-from-behind win over Sault Ste. Marie. Click the above headline for details, and to see a few photos courtesy of the school.
The Marquette High School boys soccer team completed a near perfect season over the weekend by beating the Houghton Gremlins, 7-0, for the Division One Upper Peninsula championship. The Iron Mountain and Kingsford teams could not complete because of coronavirus restrictions that shut them down at the last minute. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School football team returned from an unscheduled off week on Saturday with a 34-22 win over a tough Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes team in the Copper Country. Click the above headline to read the details and the game's statistics.
The Gladstone High School football team ran into a buzzsaw in Menominee Friday night, as the Maroons scored 34 p;oints in the first half and rolled to a 41-0 win in a Great Northern Conference game. Click the above headline for photos, interviews.
The Escanaba High School volleyball team pulled out a marathon 3-2 win over the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils in a highly-entertaining match Thursday night. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos were on the football field for the first time Thursday night after cancellations due to coronavirus shutdowns. It was a JV game, played before a small crowd of family members, but the Eskymos were back. Escanaba beat Marquette, 34-12, as Casey Bray threw touchdown passes to Trent Lawson and added a rushing touchdown. Click the above headline to see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba High School volleyball team played for the first time in three-and-a-half weeks Tuesday nignt, and cruised to a 3-0 win over the Stephenson Eagles. The scores were 25-17, 25-13, 25-14. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The Bay College Norse softball team finally got on the field in competition for the first time since playing a dozen games in Florida last March. The season got cancelled, and then all of the fall exhibition games were called off. The team broke into two teams for a a pair of scrimmages this weekend. Click the above headline for pictures/
The Marquette Junior Wildcats hockey team jumped to a 3-0 lead and held on to beat Chippewa Falls, Wis., on Sunday, in suburban Green Bay. Marquette ended up finishing with a 2-2 record in the three-day event. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
Kane Nebel threw a pair of first half touchdown passes to Ethan Lakosky to help the Munising Mustangs turn back the Stephenson Eagles, 28-14, Saturday in Stephenson. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Bay College Norse hosted a three-team cross country event on Saturday in Gladstone. Escanaba native Zach Rose won the men's race in 30:02 while North Central College took the top three spots in the women's race. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves and Kingsford Flivvers traded big plays, and mistakes, before the Flivvers eeked out a 30-28 win over the Braves in a highly-entertaining game Friday night in Kingsford. Click the above headline for details, photos, and videos.
The Kingsford Flivvers junior varsity football team overwhelmed the Gladstone Braves, 37-6, Thursday night in Gladstone. Meanwhile, in varsity action, Rapid River rolled past Newberry, 48-12. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Bay College Athletics Department is preparing for a round of home events, including the addition of a softball scrimmage on Saturday and a home cross country meet the same day. Click the above headline to see which teams will be competing.
