The Bay College Norse men's basketball team suffered another loss on the home court Saturday, falling to the Montcalm Community College Centurions, 71-54, in the MCCAA North Conference opener. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos, and to hear interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team got off to a hot start Wednesday night, racing to a 15-point lead against the Bryant & Stratton Bobcats. But the visitors from suburban Milwaukee took over from there, beating the Norse, 82-64, in Escanaba. It was the final non-conference game of the season for Bay, which enters conference play with an 11-3 record. Click the above headline for details, videos, photos, and to hear interviews.
The Marquette High School boys basketball team took a while to get going Tuesday night, but gradually pulled away to an 84-44 Great Northern Conference victory at the Escanaba High School Gym. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team pulled out another nailbiter on Saturday, beating the Macomb County Community College Monarchs, 73-70, at the St. Clair County Community College Skippers New Year's Classic in Port Huron. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Northern Michigan Wildcats continued their surge on Saturday afternoon, earning their 12th consecutive victory with a 72-60 win over Grand Valley State to improve to 13-1 overall and 4-0 in GLIAC play. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The No. 5 nationally-ranked Michigan Tech men's basketball squad saw four starters reach double-figure scoring in a 77-68 victory over Davenport at the SDC Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon. This after the Huskies lost to Grand Valley State on Friday, 79-75. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MTU Athletics. (MTU Photo)
The Marinette Marines boys beat Sevastopol, 63-50, Friday night. Connor Eastman had 29 points for Marinette and Kaden Ducane added 14 points and nine rebounds. The Marines improved to 3-6 on the season, breaking a six-game losing streak. The Pioneers fell to 6-3 on the season. Marinette is back in action Monday night at Southern Door. (Eric Bergstrom photo)
The Northern Michigan men's basketball team didn't miss a beat coming out of the holiday break, drilling a program-best 21 three-pointers in a 101-65 rout of Davenport on Friday afternoon at Vandament Arena. Northern connected on 21 of its 37 attempts from beyond the arc, shooting 56.8% from deep. Click the above headline for more details. (NMU photo)
The Bay College Norse basketball team had to grind its way to a victory Friday night in a tough place to play, but were able to pull out a 66-57 win over the St. Clair Community College Skippers at the Skippers New Year's Classic in Port Huron. The result gave the Norse a 10-2 record. Click the above headline for details, and to hear player and coach interviews.
The No. 5 nationally-ranked Michigan Tech men's basketball team was on the wrong side of a physical GLIAC affair, falling 79-75 to Grand Valley State at the SDC Gymnasium on Friday afternoon. Michigan Tech saw a new career-high 19 points from senior Josh Terrian, who connected on 5-9 from 3-point land to lead four players in double-figure scoring. Click the above headline for details. (MTU Photo)
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team got off to a slow start Tuesday night at the Border Battle in Menominee, but the Braves clamped down on defense in the second half to beat the Marinette Marines, 41-28. In Tuesday's second game, Menominee crushed the Green Bay West Wildcats, 90-52, as Tanner Theuerkauf scored 29 points. Click the above headline for details and interviews.
Basketball is a game of runs. That is a coach's cliché, but sometimes, it's true. And on Saturday in Minnesota, the Bay College Norse and Dakota County Technical College Blue Knights proved that in a wild back-and-forth game. The old Region XIII rivals exchanged punch after punch before the game was decided in the final seconds, with the Norse leaving Minnesota with a 70-69 victory. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team won all three games in sunny Puerto Rico this weekend, using its entire roster, and improving to a best-in-school-history 11-1 season record. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information.
The Michigan Tech University Huskies men's basketball team won both of its games this weekend at the Florida Tech Christmas Classic, preserving its Number Nine national ranking heading into the holiday break. Tech is now 11-1 on the season to go along with that national Top Ten ranking. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MTU Athletics. Photos courtesy of Florida Southern University.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team used a huge second quarter to open up a 20-point halftime lead, and the Braves never looked back, beating the Escanaba Eskymos, 67-48, in a rivalry battle at the Escanaba High School Gym. It was a dream-come-true night for Braves junior Lonnie Davey, as he drained ten triples and scored a career-high 36 points. Click the above headline for details. (GHS file photo)
Michigan High School Athletic Association’s seventh Multi-Sport Participation Survey, conducted last spring for the 2024-25 school year, showed small but continuing growth of multi-sport participation among athletes at member high schools. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team settled for a split at their weekend tournament, beating Glen Oaks Community College, 94-75, before losing to 16th-ranked Milwaukee Area Technical & Community College, 91-78. The result left the young Norse team with an 8-2 record, heading into next Saturday's game in Minnesota against Dakota County. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The Northern Michigan men's basketball team outscored the Marian Sabres 61-21 in the second half to pull away with a commanding 109-52 victory on Sunday afternoon. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information, and listen to RRN's Casey Ford interview Coach Matt Majkrzak. (NMU photo)
The Northern Michigan men's basketball team outscored the Concordia Wisconsin Falcons 55-10 in the first half en route to an 87-35 victory on Thursday night at Vandament Arena. Click the above headline for details, and to hear post-game comments. (NMU Photo)
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team won its home opener Monday night, turning back the Norway Knights, 50-36, in a defensive battle. It was the first varsity win for new head coach Jake Berlinksi, who became the third EHS head coach in three seasons for three seasons. Click the above headline to read details, to see photos and videos, and to hear post-game comments.
The Bay College Norse Men's Basketball Team extended their win streak to four games over the weekend as they held on for a 75-72 victory over Oakton Community College on Friday night and a 86-79 win over McHenry County College on Saturday afternoon. Saturday's win came after the Norse trailed by as many as a dozen points in the second half. Click the above headline for details, videos, interviews.
After scoring a career-high 30 points on Thursday night at Parkside, Cal Klesmit scored 17 of his game-high 20 points over a six-minute stretch in the second half to help the Northern Michigan Wildcats pull away from the Roosevelt Lakers for an 85-64 win Saturday afternoon in Chicago. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information, and to see RRN video highlights, plus post-game comments.
Cal Klesmit exploded for a career-high 30 points to lead the Northern Michigan Wildcats to an 82-78 victory over the Parkside Rangers in the GLIAC opener on Thursday night in Kenosha, Wis. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information. (NMU Photo)
The No. 12 nationally-ranked Michigan Tech men's basketball team saw 12 players score in the 92-56 win over Lakeland in the home-opener at the SDC Gymnasium on Saturday. Sophomore guard Ty Fernholz led his squad with 16 points, hitting four 3-pointers. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech University photo)
The Northern Michigan Wildcats turned in a complete team performance on both ends of the floor on Saturday afternoon in a 79-53 win over the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs. Click the above headline to for details, video highlights, and comments from Coach Matt Majkrzak. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team played lockdown defense on the Upper Peninsula rival Gogebic Community College Samsons Tuesday night, holding the Samsons to just 47 points on 28.8% shooting, on the way to a 77-46 victory in Ironwood. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team outlasted the North Region State College (N.D.) Royals Sunday evening in Minnesota, bouncing back from a disappointing home loss to Oakland Community College nine days earlier. Bay had four men score in double figures and posted a 79-69 win. The game was played in a neutral gym at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., a gym that claims to have hosted the first-ever college basketball game nearly a century ago. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
In the first-ever meeting between the programs, the Northern Michigan men's basketball team snapped Northwest Missouri State's five-game winning streak with a commanding 69-51 victory on Sunday, in Wisconsin Dells. Click the above headline to see details, and to hear RRN's post-game interview with NMU Coach Matt Majkrzak. (NMU Photo)
Graduate forward Dylan Kuehl scored a career-high 35 points as the Northern Michigan men's basketball team defeated the Northern State Wolves on Friday night at the Justagame Fieldhouse in Wisconsin Dells. Click the above headline to hear RRN's Casey Ford interview Coach Matt Majkrzak, and click the VIDEO links to see highlights from the game. (NMU story and photo)
The Bay College Norse basketball team led for much of the game in a battle of unbeaten teams Friday night in Escanaba, but the offense went cold in the second half and the 22nd ranked Oakland Community College Owls left Escanaba with a 75-68 victory. Click the above headline to read details and for photos, videos, and interviews.
