The Escanaba High School baseball team rallied to beat the Marquette Redmen, 5-4, in an MHSAA Division Two district semifinal game on Saturday, but fell to Petoskey, 4-0, in the championship game. Click the above headline to see photos, video highlights.
The Norway Knights captured a MHSAA Division Four baseball district championship on Friday, beating Stephenson, 7-1, and edging Bark River-Harris, 3-1, in Bark River. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
North Central Jets freshman Bryson Mercier won the Division Three Upper Peninsula high school boys golf championship on Thursday, rolling to a ten-shot victory over the rest of the field at Gladstone’s Irish Oaks Golf Course. Ontonagon won both the boys and girls D-3 U.P. titles, and West Iron County won both D-2 meets. Click the above headline for scores.
The Houghton Gremlins edged the Marquette Redmen and Escanaba Eskymos to take the championship of the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division One boys golf championship Wednesday in Escanaba. Gladstone's Rudy Peterson was the medalist. Click the above headline for details, photos, video clips.
The Escanaba Eskymos finished second at the Division One girls Upper Peninsula golf championships on Wednesday at Sweetgrass. Menominee won the team title. Escanaba’s Paxton Johnson won her fourth straight UP title. She shot a 76, eleven strokes clear of second place Emma Hofer of Menominee. Marquette's Morgan Rhodes (96) was third. The Maroons had 385 strokes. Escanaba was second with 412. Negaunee was third with 449, Menominee was fourth (455) and Houghton (478) took fifth place.
Craig Kamin came within one out of pitching a complete game, and Noah Lancour had two run-scoring hits as the Escanbaa Eskymos beat the Cheboygan Chiefs, 8-2, in the district tournament opener Tuesday in Escanaba. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos, videos taken by Johnny Schlenvogt.
Gabi Salo pitched a perfect game and hit a home run as the Escanaba Eskymos opened district tournament play with a 7-0 win over the Cheboygan Chiefs Tuesday in Escanaba. Click the above headline to see photos, videos taken by Johnny Schlenvogt.
The Gladstone Braves wrapped up the baseball regular season Friday by hosting the fifth-ranked team in Wisconsin, the Green Bay Preble Hornets. The Hornets left town with a 7-1 win. Click the above headline for details, photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Gladstone High School baseball team wrapped up an undefeated Great Northern Conference season Thursday, beating the Marquette Redmen, 3-0 and 22-4, in Marquette. Click the above headline to see photos and pictures, and hear post-game interviews.
Gabi Salo threw another no-hitter, then clubbed a two-run homer, to lead the Escanaba Eskymos to a doubelheader sweep over the Gladstone Braves, 6-0 and 10-0, on Tuesday. Click the above headline to see photos, videos taken by Johnny Schlenvogt.
The Escanaba High School baseball team won both ends of a doubleheader Tuesday, sweeping the Menominee Maroons, 9-0 and 7-1, on Senior Night at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline to see photos and videos from the doubleheader.
The Escanaba High School baseball team picked up a couple of come-from-behind victories in Marquette on Monday, winning the opener, 4-3, in nine innings, and taking the nightcap, 7-5. Click the above headline to read details, and hear post-game interviews.
The Gladstone Braves softball team won the Tawas Invitational on Saturday. The Braves beat the Tawas Braves, 9-2. Jenna Tardiff had RBI doubles in each of the first two innings and Taelor Zeise singled in two runs in the first inning and doubled home two more runs in the sixth. Andie Balenger pitched a complete game eight hitter and had an RBI hit at the plate. Gladstone beat Ogemaw Heights, 13-5. Taylor Trudeau had a grand slam home run and Sydney Herioux had three hits and two RBI. Zeise had a double and three RBI.
The Escanaba Eskymos Softball team ran into a buzzsaw on Saturday in rainy Ann Arbor, losing to the top ranked Division One team in Michigan, Clarkston, 5-0. Gabi Salo was charged with five runs (one earned) on ten base hits. Esky made four errors. The Eskymos did not get a base runner, as pitcher Olivia Warrington threw a perfect game. Escanaba did better on Friday. The Eskymos shut out South Lyon, 3-0, as Gabi Salo threw another no-hitter. She struck out 13 batters and allowed just one walk. Later, Escanaba topped Saine, 6-2. Lexi Chaillier had four hits in the doubleheader.
The Gladstone Braves hit five home runs, two of them by Cody Frappier, as they rolled to a doubleheader sweep over the Marquette Redmen, 6-1 and 10-0, Friday in Gladstone. Click the above headline to see photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Escanaba High School baseball team posted a 9-3 victory over the Menominee Maroons Thursday night at Spies Field as Noah Lancour threw five innings of no-hit ball. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos, video highlights.
The Gladstone Braves baseball team got revenge for a pair of earlier losses to the Negaunee Miners on Wednesday with two lopsided victories, 14-2 and 11-2, at Negaunee's IronTown Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos.
The Escanaba Eskymos scored three runs in the first inning to beat the Gladstone Braves in high school softball on Monday, 3-0, in Gladstone. But the Braves rallied from four runs down to take the nightcap, 8-5. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and videos taken by Johnny Schlenvogt and Nate Belleville.
The Gladstone Braves baseball team stayed undefeated in Great Northern Conference play with a pair of wins on Monday over the Menominee Maroons, 4-2 and 13-3, at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for photos and videos taken by Nate Belleville.
The Escanaba High School baseball team gave up five unearned runs in the first inning and lost the opener of a doubleheader to the Kingsford Flivvers, 5-1, Tuesday at Lodal Park. The Eskymos regrouped to pound the Flivvers in the nightcap, 13-0. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves scored three runs in the fifth inning to rally past the Escanaba Eskymos, 4-1, in a pitching battle between the two Delta County rivals. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and videos taken by Nate Belleville.
The Escanaba High School softball team bounced back from Friday's tough loss by posting a pair of wins on Saturday, while the Gladstone Braves lost to the state's two top-ranked teams. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team won both of its games at its home tournament on Saturday, turning back Sault Ste. Marie, 10-4, and Cheboygan, 6-0. Kingsford split its games at the event. Click the above headline for photos, video clips.
Gabbi Sherman struck out 15 batters and allowed just one hit as the Millington Cardinals beat the Escanaba Eskymos, 3-0, in a high school softball showdown on Friday. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos taken by Johnny Schlenvogt.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association has approved the addition of seeding at the district level in basketball and is making big changes to how the football playoff teams are selected. The representative council also approved using instant replay at Finals events. Click the above headline to read those and other changes.
The Gladstone Braves swept a softball doubleheader from the Rapid River Rockets on Tuesday, 8-2 and 5-2, in Rapid River. Click the above headline for photos, video clips.
Jake LaFave hit a two-run homer with two out in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie and lift the Escanaba Eskymos to a 3-1 win over the Bark River-Harris Broncos Monday night at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Gladstone High School baseball team swept a doubleheader from the Calumet Copper Kings, 1-0 and 6-0, on Saturday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School softball team wrapped up a perfect weekend on Saturday with two victories at a tournament in Wisconsin. Click the above headline to read details.
The Gladstone Braves swept both ends of a doubleheader from the Escanaba Eskymos, 10-0 and 12-2, on a chilly Tuesday evening in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details.
