The Norway Knights scored five runs in the third inning to break a 1-1 tie and they cruised to a 9-4 win over the Ironwood Red Devils Wednesday in a MHSAA Division Four regional semifinal game in Bark River. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team hoisted its first district championship trophy since 2016 on Saturday after a posting a dramatic 5-4 win over Cheboygan in the semifinals, and then topping Marquette, 9-5, in the championship game. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Gladstone Braves won their seventh straight baseball district championship on Friday, beating the Newberry Indians, 18-1, and then holding off the Superior Central Cougars, 6-3, under windy and hot conditions in Eben Junction. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos won their first MHSAA Division One boys tennis championship in 14 years on Wednesday. They waited out two very long rain delays to end Negaunee's multi-year reign. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Escanaba Eskymos football team’s lineman camp wrapped up on Wednesday. It was put on by Michigan Tech University assistant coach Jace Daniels, and former Central Michigan/Finlandia Coach Travis Wilzius. They are both former Eskymos. The Escanaba HIgh School coaching staff also helped to instruct at the two-day camp.
The Marquette Redmen scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning Tuesday night and beat the Kingsford Flivvers, 4-2, in Quinnesec. It was a double win for the Redmen as the MHSAA has moved the rest of the district tournament from Quinnesec to Marquette this Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Norway Knights played a tune-up game on Tuesday to close the regular season. The Eskymos got two-run base hits from Riley Lamb and Nick Kolich, and three pitchers combined to throw a three-hitter as Escanaba beat Norway, 5-1, at Marion Park. Click the above headline for details, photos taken by Sheila Olsen.
Gladstone High School senior Ahna Larson signed her National Letter of Intent Friday to attend school at Northern Michigan University. She will join the Wildcat Track & Field team this fall. Click the above headline for details.
The Norway Knights and Gladstone Braves combined to make 13 errors in a back-and-forth baseball game Thursday night at Marion Park. The final error of the night cost the Braves as the Knights picked up a 8-7 win in eight innings. Click the above headline for details.
The Superior Central Cougars scored seven runs in the top of the eleventh inning to beat the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 10-3, on Wednesday. It is believed to be the longest game in both schools' history, and it lasted three hours and 29 minutes. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Gladstone High Schoool baseball team played its final home game Monday night, honoring its seven seniors and then hanging on for a 7-4 win over the Bark River-Harris Broncos under the lights. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team faced perhaps its toughest opponent of the season Friday night, and was on the wrong end of a pitcher's duel, losing to the Coleman Cougars, 3-1, in Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details, photos taken by Sheila Olsen.
Hunter Lancour threw four no-hit innings and the Escanaba Eskymos took advantage of four Norway errors and the Eskymos cruised to a 5-0 win over the Knights Thursday night. The Eskymos had only two base hits and Norway had just three. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School baseball team bounced back from Tuesday's extra inning loss in Menominee by taking two games from the Negaunee Miners on Wednesday, 7-2 and 11-7, at Iron Town Field. The Miners hung in there despite having a roster with no seniors and ten freshmen. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
McKayla Mott threw a two-hit shutout and the Escanaba Eskymos broke a scoreless tie with a seven-run third inning on the way to a 13-0 mercy-shortened win over the Gladstone Braves on Tuesday. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and inetrviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos rode the pitching of Riley Lamb and took advantage of seven Kingsford errors in an 11-2 sin in a game that was close until the sixth inning. Hunter Lancour drove in four runs for Escanaba. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Gladstone Braves played a pair of one-run games on Saturday, with each Delta County rival taking home a win. The Eskymos won the opener, 4-3, before the Braves took the nightcap, 7-6. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team tuned up for their Saturday showdown with Gladstone by beating the Manistique Emeralds, 8-4, Friday night at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Gladstone Braves scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to stun the Iron Mountaineers, 6-5, in high school baseball action on Thursday. Owen Trombley had the game-winning hit. Click the above headline for photos, videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Marquette High School golf team won the third of five Great Northern Conference meets on Thursday in Escanaba, while the Menominee Maroons cruised to the team victory in the girls meet. Click the above headline to see all of the results.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Menominee Maroons split a doubleheader Thursday night in Escanaba, with the Eskymos winning the opener, 4-2, and the Maroons taking the nightcap, 5-3. Click the above headline to read details and see photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team broke a three-game losing streak with a 6-2 win over the Marquette Redmen Wednesday night at Al Ness Field. Trent Lawson pitched a complete game to earn the victory. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Kingsford High School baseball team beat the Gladstone Braves for the first time in program history Tuesday night, 7-6. Nolan Lavarnway's two-run, walk-off base hit gave the Flivvers the win in a sloppy game. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Escanaba High School sophomore Carney Salo will serve on the MHSAA Student Advisory Council next year. Click the above headline for details.
The Bark River-Harris High School baseball team won the Newberry Invitational on Saturday. They opened with a 3-0 win over Marquette JV and then beat Manistique in the title game, 18-3. Tyler Racicot pitched shutout in opener with 11K. Zach Robinette had two hits and two RBI. In championship game, Aidan Johnson was 4-for-4 with three RBI. Robinette drove in three runs. Max Hall pitched the win. Earlier Manistique beat Newberry 4-2, then Newberry beat Marquette JV in the third place game, 11-10.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos had timely hitting and took advantage of seven Escanaba errors to post an 11-3 baseball victory Thursday at Al Ness Field. It was Escanaba's first loss of the season. Click the above headline for details.
The addition of a girls division to the Individual Wrestling Tournament series and approval of a common start date for all Fall sports highlighted actions taken by the Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association during its annual Spring Meeting. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team held its post-season awards ceremony Wednesday night at the House of Ludington. The big winner was Eskymo captain Nick Kolich, who cleaned up several top awards and pocketed some college scholarship money as well. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves executed two perfect suicide squeezes in the bottom of the seventh inning Wednesday and pulled out a wild 11-10 win over the Marquette Redmen at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see Gladstone Braves photos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team stayed undefeated Tuesday night with a 6-4 win over the Gladstone Braves. Click the above headline for details. (Deanna Lawson photo)
