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)
The Gladstone Braves high school baseball team on Saturday swept the Calumet Copper Kings, 8-1 in the opener and 17-2 in the nightcap. Braeden Sundquist threw 5 innings to get the win in the opener. Trevor Hanson and Austin Bagwell combined to pitch the second game. The Braves host Kingsford Monday, Escanaba Tuesday and Marquette Wednesday. Click the above headline to see photos courtesy of Gladstone Braves Athletics.
The Escanaba High School baseball team stayed undefeated Friday by beating a strong Peshtigo Bulldogs team, 11-4, in Wisconsin. The Eskymos scored seven runs in the fourth inning to break open a close game. Click the above headline for details.
The Menominee Maroons used the home course advantage to win a pair of Great Northern Conference golf meets on Thursday at the Riverside Course. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School softball team rolled to a pair of wins on Wednesday, beating Rapid River, 10-0 and 15-0. Click the above headline for details and photos taken by Gina Pepin.
The Escanaba High School baseball team spotted the Kingsford Flivvers a 2-0 lead but rebounded to win going away, 10-4, Wednesday evening in Quinnesec. The Eskymos remained undefeated on the season with an 8-0 record. Click the above headline for details.
A hearing was held Tuesday in the Michigan Court of Claims on the legality of the reuirement that Michigan teenaged athletes be tested for COVID-19 in order to play. The group "Let Them Play Michigan" says the state health department has not followed proper procedures in making the rules, so they should be voided. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on Friday released the 2021 boys basketball All-U.P. teams. Iron Mountain's Foster Wonders was named Mr. U.P. Basketball. Click the above headline to see all of the winners.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Gladstone Braves both picked up doubleheader sweeps in baseball action Thursday night. The Eskymos beat the North Central Jets 12-5 and 11-2 in Hermansville, while the Braves topped the Negaunee Miners in Gladstone, 10-2 and 12-1. Click the above headline for details. (Gladstone Braves Athletics photo)
The Escanaba High School softball team scored 12 runs in the first inning and crusied to a 22-0 win over Rapid River Wednesday evening. Click the above headline for details.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos baseball team topped the Gladstone Braves in the first game of a doubleheader, 9-1, on Tuesday, before the Braves got revenge in the nightcap. 14-0. Click the above headline to see details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Gladstone Braves and Menominee Maroons battled the snow and cold to play a baseball game on Monday, and the Braves scored two runs in the fifth inning to break a 3-3 tie to post a 5-3 win at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Upper Peninsula Sportscasters ans Sportswriters Association is out with its All-U.P. teams for the 2021 season, and Escanaba Eskymo Nicole Kamin is on top of the list. She was named Ms. U.P. Basketball as the region's best player. Click the above headline to see all winners.
The Escanaba High School baseball team broke a scoreless tie with 12 runs over the fourth and fifth inning and mercied the Menominee Maroons, 12-1, Thursday in the season-opener at Menominee's Spies Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos baseball team got good pitching and strong defensive play from the left side of the infield and beat the Kingsford Flivvers, 7-3, on a cold Tuesday afternoon in Bark River. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Iron Mountain Mountaineers were overwhelmed by a takented Flint Beecher team, 75-47, in the MHSAA Division Three state championship game on Saturday at the Breslin Center. Click the above headline for dteials. (Story, photo courtesy of MHSAA)
The Manistique High School baseball team took the field for the first time in school history on Saturday with a doubleheader against Bark River-Harris in Bark River. The Broncos won both games, 7-1 and 13-1. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Upper Peninsula high school girls basketball post-season has wrapped up. Click the above headline for scores from the season.
The 2021 Upper Peninsula high school boys basketball post-season has come to an end. Click the above headline to see scores and schedules from around the U.P.
Foster Wonders scored 31 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Iron Mountaineers to a 54-50 win over Schoolcraft in the MHSAA Division Three state semifinals in East Lansing. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA story)
The Carney-Nadeau High School girls basketball team lost in its bid to make the state championship game with a 61-37 to Fowler in the MHSAA Division Four state semifinals on Wednesday. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Photo)
The Calumet High School girls basketball team came up short in its quest for a state championship on Wednesday, losing in the MHSAA Division Three state semifinals to Kent City, 59-53, at the Breslin Center. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Photo)
