The Escanaba High School hockey team opened a three-game-in-three-day stretch in Lower Michigan on Tuesday, beating the Dexter Dreadnaughts,10-2, in the Alpena Christmas Classic. Four different Eskymos scored two goals each in the victory. The game was called on the mercy rule in the third period. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
Rease Dawley scored 22 points and Kodey Goldi added 20 as the Rapid River Rockets pulled away from the Mid Peninsula Wolverines, 60-40, in boys basketball action Monday night. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and hear post-game interviews.
Dylan Ziemke made 39 saves against some of his former teammates, but the Escanaba goaltender's effort wasn't enough as the Ashwaubenon Jaguars went home to Wisconsin with a 3-1 win Thursday night. The Eskymos spent 21 minutes shorthanded thanks to eight minor penalties and one major penalty. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central Jets boys basketball team outscored the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 23-8, in the third quarter and posted a 60-41 win Tuesday night in Harris. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and listen to post-game interviews.
The new Manistique Emeralds High School hockey team won its first-ever home game Thursday night, beating the Kingsford Flivvers, 7-3, at the Little Bear West Arena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interiews.
Claire Vanginhoven scored 26 points and the Gladstone Braves knocked off the Kingsford Flivvers, 53-42, in girls basketball action Tuesday night. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and to listen to post-game interviews.
Points were hard to come by Monday night as the Negaunee Miners slipped past the Gladstone Braves, 35-22, in a boys basketball non-conference game in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, see photos and videos, and listen to coaches' comments.
Jayger LaMarch completed his hat trick with 1:00 left in the game to break a 4-4 tie and lead the Escanaba Eskymos hockey team to a 5-4 win over the Muskegon Reeths Puffer Rockets Friday at Marquette’s Lakeview Arena. Click the above headline for details.
Jayger LaMarch had two goals and Sawyer LaMarch added three assists as the Escanaba Eskymos blanked the Negaunee Miners, 6-0, Tuesday night at the Wells Sports Complex. Goaltender Bryce Buchbinder made 21 saves for the shutout. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central Jets boys basketball team scored the first 15 points of the game Monday night and rolled to a 66-37 win over the Stephenson Eagles in the season-opener in Stephenson. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Three members of the state champion North Central Jets have been named to the Associated Press All-State football team. Quarterback Luke Gorzinski was named the Player of the Year for the entire state. Click the above headline to see the list.
The Escanaba High School hockey team picked up two come-from behind victories over the weekend, beating the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils, 7-3 on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday, at the Big Bear Arena. Click the above headline for details, and to hear Dylan Ziemke's player spotlight interview.
The Marquette Redmen rallied from a pair of two-goal deficits and escaped with a 5-4 win over the understaffed Escanaba Eskymos Tuesday night at Lakeview Arena. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to radio interviews.
The Michigan High School Football Coaches Association released its All-State football lists on Wednesday. Click the above headline to see which Yoopers made the list.
The North Central Jets rolled to another MHSAA Eight Man state football championship on Saturday, beating the Colon Magi, 63-0, at the Superior Dome. It was the second straight state championship for NCA and it was the 13th straight mercy-rule victory in an undefeated season. Click the above headline for details, interviews.
The North Central High School football team held its final practice on its home field in Powers Wednesday night as the Jets get ready to face the Colon Magi in the state championship game on Saturday. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and hear interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team scored two goals in the first 80 seconds of the game Tuesday night and cruised past the Kingsford Flivvers, 3-1, in the season-opener at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announced its All-U.P. football awards Monday night, and the North Central Jets swept all of the major awards, including Team of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year. Click the above headline to see all of the award winnes.
The 2021 high school volleyball post-season has come to an end. Click the above headline to see the scores.
The high school football playoffs move into Week Three with four U.P. teams still alive. Click the above headline to see the results and regular season scoreboard for all Upper Peninsula teams.
The North Central Jets football team fell behind for the first time this season on Saturday, but scored 66 unanswered points to roll past Marion in the state semifinals, 73-8, in Powers. Click the above headline for details and hear post-game interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters announced their All-U.P. football teams Friday evening. A panel of 21 people met for nearly seven hours at the Marquette Holiday Inn Wednesday to come up with this list. Click the above headline for details.
Wednesday was collegiate Signing Day for several sports, including baseball and softball. Three Escanaba High School graduating seniors signed on the bottom line: Jared Hanson, Hunter Lancour and Carsyn Segorski. Click the above headline to hear from them.
While COVID-19 surely played a part in reduced participation in sports at Michigan High School Athletic Association schools during the 2020-21 school year, a total of 244,012 participants continued to take part in athletics across the 28 sports for which the MHSAA sponsors postseason tournaments. Click the above headline for details.
The defending state champion North Central Jets rolled to a playoff victory on Saturday, beating the Pellston Hornets, 64-14, in Powers. Wyatt Raab rushed for three touchdowns and had a pick-six interception score. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee Miners raced to 28-0 and 35-6 leads before holding off a furious fourth quarter rally to beat the Gladstone Braves, 42-28, Friday night, in the MHSAA Division Six playoffs. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and hear interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos rallied from eight points down to force a fifth game, and the held off the Manistique Emeralds in the decisive fifth game to pull out another wild 3-2 match before a pair of raucous student sections Thursday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos, and hear post-game interviews.
The man who allegedly sexually abused a National Hockey League player is from Houghton, and also allegedly assaulted a Houghton High School hockey player while he was an assistant coach with the Gremlins. Click the above headline for details. (TSN Photo)
The Marquette High School volleyball team clinched the outright Great Northern Conference championship Tuesday night with a 3-1 win over the Escanaba Eskymos. The scores were 25-18, 25-11, 20-25, 25-13. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Marquette Redmen won the Division One boys Upper Peninsula cross country championship on its home course Saturday, as Carson Vanderschaaf (pictured) won the medalist honors. Painesdale-Jeffers in Division Two, and Dollar Bay won in Division Three. Click the above headline to read details courtesy of the Michigan High School Athletic Association.
