The Painesdale-Jeffers Jets scored three runs in the eighth inning to stun the Norway Knights, 4-1, in the D4 regional semifinal in Ironwood on Wednesday. Click the above headline for details.
The Rudyard Bulldogs advance to the Division Four Super Regional with a 3-0 win over Indian River Inland Lakes on Wednesday. Click the above headline for details.
The Bark River-Harris High School girls track and field team won its first-ever MHSAA Upper Peninsula championship on Saturday, and it wasn't even close. The Broncos raced past everybody to win by 33 points. Click the above headline for details (MHSAA courtesy)
The Escanaba Eksymos softball team rolled through the MHSAA Division Two District tournament on Saturday. The Eskymos beat the Cheboygan Chiefs 13-3 in six innings before beating the host Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils 16-0 in the final. Click the above headline for details.
The Cheboygan Chiefs and Escanaba Eskymos had another classic battle on Saturday, as seven innings were not enough to settle the MHSAA Division Two district championship. In the end, the Chiefs pulled out a 1-0 win over the Eskymos in nine innings, one year after the Eskymos walked off the Chiefs by a run. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School baseball team nearly pulled off the upset of the year in the MHSAA Division Two district semifinals Saturday in Sault Ste. Marie. But 9th-ranked Cheboygan pulled out a 4-3 win over the Redmen. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Gladstone High School Baseball team rolled to the MHSAA Division Three district championship on Friday, beating Superior Central, 12-2, in the semifinals, and topping Newberry, 15-0, in the finals. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School Softball team beat Manistique 17-0 and Menominee 8-0 to capture the MSHAA Division Three District Championship on Friday. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The North Central High School boys golf team cruised to the MHSAA Division Three boys golf Upper Peninsula championship on Thursday at the Highland Golf Course. NCA, behind medalist Bryson Mercier, was 47 strokes clear of second place Ontonagon. Click the above headline for details.
On its home courts, the host Westwood boys tennis team claimed the Upper Peninsula Division 2 title by winning four flights and making the finals in all eight Thursday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (Story, photo courtesy of MHSAA)
The Escanaba High School boys tennis team won its second straight MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula championship on Wednesday, edging Negaunee and Marquette, 17-15-13, at Kingsford High School. Click the above headline for details, and to hear radio interviews.
The MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division One golf championships were held on Wednesday. The Escanaba Eskymos won the girl's title by six strokes over Negaunee, while Houghton topped Marquette by five strokes for the boys. Click the above headline for details.
The Kingsford Flivvers and Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils played a classic baseball game Tuesday to open the MHSAA Division Two district tournament. It went extra innings with the Blue Devils surviving, 3-2. Click the above headline for details. (Soo Baseball Photos)
The Escanaba High School baseball team won two games on Tuesday to close the regular season, beating Menominee, 7-0, and Bark River-Harris, 10-0. EHS improved to 24-8 on the season. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Gladstone Braves traveled to the Green Bay area Friday to face the top-ranked team in Wisconsin's Division Two, the Denmark Vikings. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School boys tennis team won its second straight Great Northern Conference championship on Friday in dominating fashion Friday, taking seven of the eight flights in the rain-delayed event at Kingsford High School. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School baseball team beat the Kingsford Flivvers, 10-2, Thursday night at Olsen Field in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Escanaba High Sch0ol honored its top athletes at the 2022 athletic awards banquet Wednesday night. Click the above headline for the details.
The Escanaba and Gladstone High School softball teams played an intense game Tuesday night in Gladstone before the Eskymos scored eight runs in the final inning to pull away for a 10-1 victory. Click the above headline for details. photos, videos, and interviews.
It was Signing Day Monday for six Escanaba High School graduating seniors on Monday, with two football, two basketball, and two softball players signing their National Letters of Intent to play at the next level. Click the above headline for details, interviews.
Freshman pitcher Gavin Frossard served up a double play grounder to help the Gladstone Braves survive a Bark River-Harris walk-off bid, winning 5-4, Monday, at the Bark River Township Fields. BR-H also lost to the Braves JV team, 10-9. Click the above headline for details.
The Manistique High School baseball team extended its winning streak to five games with a 14-9 win over Pickford Monday night, but the Emeralds coughed up a 6-1 lead and lost in the nightcap, 10-6. Click the above headline to read details.
Hits were at a premium Monday night as the Escanaba Eskymos and Superior Central Cougars met in what turned out to be a pitcher's duel. Escanaba's Ben Johnson was just a but better than SC's Hayden Rockhill as Escanaba won the game, 4-0. There were only five base hits in the game, three of them by the Cougars. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Cheboygan Chiefs played two more intense baseball games on Saturday, with the Eskymos winning the opener, 3-1, and the Chiefs winning the extra inning international tiebreaker game, 5-4. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Kingsford High School baseball team won two games Saturday to take the championship of the Northland Pines Tournament in Eagle River. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School softball team welcomed the Traverse City St. Francis Gladiators and Charlevoix Rayders to town on Saturday for a full day of action, and the Braves picked up their biggest win of the season by knocking off the undefeated Gladiators, 5-4, before TCSF got even in the nightcap, 13-6. Click the above headline for details.
The Manistique Emeralds baseball team was opportunistic on Saturday, taking advantage of walks and errors to win twice against Superior Central, 9-8 and 12-8, on Senior Day. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos taken by Heather Sprader.
The City of Gaylord was under a state of emergency Friday night after a tornado hit the city, killing at least one person and destroying many homes and businesses. The Escanaba High School baseball team was caught in the middle of it all. Click the above headline for more.
The Escanaba High School softball team played two more games on Thursday, and picked up two more wins, 5-0 and 14-0, at Marion Park. The Eskymos have played every single day (even Sunday) and have played 12 games since last Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
Scott Hiller hit a three-run homer off the left fielder's glove in the sixth inning as the Escanaba Eskymos rallied past the Norway Knights in high school baseball, 10-8, Thursday night at Marion Park. Click the above headline for details.
