The North Central High School wrestling team ran into a buzzsaw on Friday in a MHSAA Division Four state quarterfinal match at the Wings Events Center in Kalamazoo. The Jets lost to the top-ranked and multi-state-champion Hudson Tigers, 84-0, ending the best season in the program's short three-year history. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Men's Basketball Team led for most of the game on Wednesday evening, but weren't able to pull away until the second half as they took down the Lumberjacks of Alpena Community College, 83-69. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The No. 13 Northern Michigan women's basketball team outscored the Lake Superior State Lakers in every quarter en route to an 80-61 road victory on Thursday night at Bud Cooper Gymnasium. The Wildcats remained perfect on the road, improving their record to 8-0 as the visitor. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information. (NMU Photo)
The Bark River-Harris Broncos football team pulled off a miracle victory Friday night to win the school's first regional championship in more than two decades, beating Maple City Glen Lake, 22-21, in Lower Michigan. Click the above headline for details.
Four Upper Peninsula high school volleyball teams won regional semifinal matches on Tuesday to stay alive in the MHSAA tournaments: Forest Park, Ishpeming, Newberry, and Painesdale-Jeffers. Click the above headline for details.
The Superiorland men’s league championship game was held in the rain Monday night in Escanaba, and the host Mikey D’s Beer Cave team won the championship in six innings, 11-1, over the Channing Railroaders.
As high school sports practices begin, and some of the first contests are played in some sports, the Michigan High School Athletic Association is again ramping up awareness of necessary hot-weather precautions as schools and families prepare for activity. Practices for all Fall 2025 sports – cross country, football, boys soccer, girls tennis, and volleyball began on Monday. The first soccer, tennis, volleyball, and cross cluntry contests are this weekend.
The wild summer-long ride for the Negaunee Major Little League All-Star baseball team came to an end on Monday as the UP boys lost to Lexington, Kentucky, 6-1, in an elimination game in suburban Indianapolis. The loss ended the Great Lakes Regional Tournament run for Negaunee, after a five-week odyssey that started with district tournament blowouts in Calumet, and improbable six-game run at the state tournament in Saginaw that included a pair of nailbiters, and then the trip to the Hoosier state for the first time in program history.
The 78th annual Michigan-Wisconsin Open Tennis Tournament got underway Saturday in Escanaba's Ludington Park. The singles competition was held in several divisions. In the Class A men's competition, Juan Guerra won the title in straight sets (6-3, 6-4), and in Class B, Escanaba native Chris Ogren defeated Aaron Isenhart of Elk Rapids in three sets, taking the third set, 6-4. The competition continues on Sunday with doubles matches, both in Ludington Park and at the Abrahamson Courts.
