The Escanaba High School hockey team waited four months to hold their annual post-season banquet Tuesday night. It wasn't the usual gathering, but the boys were still recognized with a social-distanced event. Click the above headline for setails.
Three-time All-State basketball player Foster Wonders of Iron Mountain announced Monday that he will attend school and play basketball at Southern Illinois University in 2021-22, an NCAA Division One school in the Missouri Valley Conference. Click the above headline for more.
The reconstituted Central Collegiate Hockey Association, which will begin play in the 2021-22 season, has named Don Lucia as Commissioner, the seven member schools announced Wednesday. Click the above headline to read details.
Sault Ste. Marie native Abby Roque was named the nation's top women's hockey player by USA Hockey on Wednesday. The University of Wisconsin senior had 26 goals and 58 points for the Badgers last season. Click the above headline for details. (UW Photo)
Governor Gretchen Whitmer Friday announced appointments to the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports. One of them is Ryan Reichel of Negaunee, the girls basketball coach at Ishpeming High School. Click the above headline for details.
Two Upper Peninsula natives have committed to continue their education and play basketball at Olivet College. Dre Tuominen of Negaunee and Ryan Robinette of Escanaba announced together on Monday. Click the above headline to read more.
Brooke Dalgord will continue to play basketball in the Upper Peninsula this fall, and she’ll do it relatively close to home. Less than a week after graduating from Bay College, Dalgord on Tuesday signed to continue her education and athletic career at Finlandia University in Hancock. Click the above headline to read details.
Ishpeming High School graduate Dondre Yohe, who played the past two seasons for the Bay College Norse, will be wearing Green and Gold next winter. Or more like a suit and tie. Yohe will join the Northern Michigan University men's basketball program as a student assistant coach. Click the above headline for details.
Escanaba native Brayden Stannard took another step toward his hockey dreams on Tuesday when he was drafted in the second round of the United States Hockey League's Green Bay Gamblers. Click the above headline to read more and hear his interview.
Bay College sophomore center Christian Alexander signed his National Letter of Intent to play NCAA Division One basketball at Gardner-Webb University, a school located in North Carolina from the Big South conference. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University Athletic Department announced the 2019-20 Wildcat Awards on Monday. The awards will be presented through social media and the official NMU Athletics website. Awards will be presented through May 4, finishing with the announcement of the Gildo Canale Outstanding Senior Award, Athletes of the Year, and Team of the Year. Click the above headline for details.
You can get rid of all of those returnable cans and bottles and help the Manistique High School wrestling team at the same time. You can drop them off at the Gonzalez home at 1019 Deer Street, and when stores start accepting returnables again, the team will return them and the money will be used to help to buy new gear for next season. You can also call 286-3978, and they'll pick up the returnables.
A member of the Marquette Senior High School hockey team has signed to play hockey in Canada. Jakob Peterson will become a member of the Drayton Valley Thunder of the Alberta Junior Hockey Association. Click the above headline for details.
NJCAA Region 13 announced the All-Region Basketball Teams. Bay College's Christian Alexander and Kaitlyn Hardwick were recognized among the best players in the region. Click the above headline to read more and see video highlights from both players.
A member of the Bay College men’s basketball team will continue to play the sport he loves. Luke Mattson said on Thursday that he has accepted an offer from the University of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. Click the above headline to read his story.
The Detroit News is out with its high school girls basketball All-State Teams. Click the above headline to see who made the paper's list. (Pictured: Nicole Kamin).
Iron Mountain's Marcus Johnson and Foster Wonders were both named as Division Three First Team All-Staters on Tuesday by the Associated Press, while the U.P.'s Nick Edington and Ashton Janke were Division Four First Teamers and Carney-Nadeau's Brett LaFord was named to the D-4 Second Team. Click the above headline to read details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announced the All-U.P. boys basketball teams Friday night. Click the above headline to see the list.
The Michigan Wrestling Association is praising the work of the best high school wrestling teams and individuals...off the mat. The Escanaba Eskymos were recognized for having the ninth-best team grade point average in the state in Division Two. The Westwood Patriots and five individuals were also honored. Click the above headline to read more.
Bay College Athletic Director Matt Johnson has announced that Matt Gregory has been hired as the Head Women's Basketball Coach. Gregory served as the interim coach for the end of the 2019-2020 season. Click the above headline to read more details.
Eight Upper Peninsula High School wrestlers are being honored for their success on the mat this winter. The Michigan Wrestling Association lists its All-State teams by grade level and by division. Click the above headline to read about the Yoopers and see videos.
Sault Ste. Marie High School graduate and University of Wisconsin hockey player Abby Roque has been named an All-American, along with Badgers teammate Daryl Watts. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of UW Athletics.
An Upper Peninsula hockey player had his East Coast junior hockey season come and abrupt end, along with the rest of the sports world, with the emergence of the coronavirus. Click the above headline to read more about Bark River's Brayden Stannard.
Six Marquette Redmen and one Escanaba Eskymo have been named to the Divison Two All-State teams by the Michigan High School Hockey Coaches Association. Click the above headline to see who made the teams, and hear interviews about their selections.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association decided on Thursday afternoon to postpone all winter sports tournaments, immediately, and until further notice. Click the above headline to read details from the MHSAA director.
The Upper Peninsula high school hockey post-season was postponed due to the coronavirus. Click the above headline to see the schedules and scores for all of the U.P. varsity teams.
The 2019-20 high school boys basketball playoffs were postponed due to the coronavirus. Click the above headline to see the schedules for U.P. teams.
The 2020 Upper Peninsula high school girls basketball post-season was postponed due to the coronavirus. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules.
The Michigan Amateur Hockey Association announced tonight it has cancelled all its remaining State Championships, including the Under-18 AA, 16A, and 18-AA state tournaments scheduled to be run at Marquette’s Lakeview Arena. Click the above headline to read details.
Former Wildcat hockey head coach Rick Comley was named the 2020 recipient of the Hobey Baker Legend of College Hockey award as announced by the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation. Click the above headline for details.
