A record number of spectators at girls postseason events pushed Michigan High School Athletic Association attendance during the 2023-24 school year past 1.4 million fans for the second straight year, with the total of 471,651 spectators for girls competitions breaking the previous all-time best set in 2014-15.
The Escanaba High School hockey team kept its perfect all-time record against the Manisdtique Emeralds intact Tuesday night with an unusually-easy 9-1 victory at the Little Bear West Arena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
Nolan Bink had three goals and added three assists to help the Escanaba Eskymos hockey team beat the Negaunee Miners, 9-2, Friday night, at the Negaunee Ice Arena. Graham Johnson added four assists as the Eskymos bounced back from last weekend's empty trip to the Copper Country. Click the above headline for details.
This season, for the first time, an MHSAA Finals team championship will be awarded in high school girls wrestling. Click the above headline to read details.
Lillie Johnson scored 25 points, crossing 1,000 for her Gladstone Braves career, as she helped her team post a 51-47 win over the defending state champion Ishpeming Hematites Tuesday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and post-game reaction.
Jordan Guenette scored 20 points and the Negaunee Miners used strong defense to beat the Escanaba Eskymos, 64-42, Tuesday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and to listen to post-game interviews.
Cale Carter scored with 32.5 seconds left in overtime to lift the Escanaba High School hockey team to a 3-2 win over the Traverse City Central Trojans on Saturday at the Centre Ice Arena. It ended an intense up-and-down battle that saw 76 shots on goal and multiple huge saves by both goaltenders. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba Hgh School hockey team got a 33-save performance from Cully Hayes and three different Eskymos scored in a 3-1 win over Traverse City West Friday night as a winter storm raged through northern Michigan. Graham Johnson assisted on all three goals as the Eskymos improved to 3-1 on the season. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team could not follow up on last Friday's emotional win over Marquette, as the Eskymos lost to the Painesdale-Jeffers Jets, 4-2, on Thanksgiving Eve at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team, playing without two of its top players, managed to beat the Alpena Wildcats, 57-49, in the season opener Monday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Crystal Falls Forest Park Trojans won the school's fifth football state championship on Saturday, beating the Morrice Orioles, 42-20, at the Suerior Dome. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. (MHSAA Photo)
The Pickford High School football team got off to a great start in the state championship game Saturday in the Superior Dome, but fell to the Deckerville Eagles in dramatic fashion, 30-28. Click the above headline for details, photos, courtesy of MHSAA.
The Escanaba High School hockey team ended nine years of frustration against their biggest rival Friday night, beating Marquette, 3-1, at the Wells Sports Complex. The win broke a 17-game losing streak for the Eskymos against the Redmen, and now the Sentinels, dating back to November 26, 2016. Click the above headline for details. (LIzzie Taylor photo)
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assoication on Friday evening unveiled the All-U.P. teams for the eleven-man football divisions. And the Iron Mountain Mountaineers cleaned up on most of the major awards. Click the above headline for the details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association released its All-U.P. football players list Wednesday night for the eight-man divisions. The panel of 15 journalists from across the Upper Peninsula met at Northern Michigan University earlier this week to make the selections. Click the above headline to see the winners.
The Escanaba High School hockey team cut through the fog, and cut through the Kingsford Flivvers, 9-0, in the season opener Tuesday night in the warm, moist Mountain View Ice Arena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The MHSAA high school football playoffS are winding down. Click the above headline to see how the U.P. teams are doing.
The MHSAA regional tournaments are wrapping up across the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline to see the schedules and scores.
Sophomore Dax Huuki ran for four touchdowns to lead the Forest Park Trojans to a 34-12 win over the North Central Jets to win the MHSAA Eight Player regional championship Friday night. Lane Gorzinski had two long touchdown runs for NCA to bring the Jets to within 13-12 at halftime, but the Forest Park defense pitched a shutout in the second half. The Trojans advanced to the state semifinals at home against Onekema.
The MHSAA Scholar-Athlete Award will again, with Farm Bureau Insurance, present 32 $2,000 scholarships to top student-athletes at member high schools during the 2024-25 school year. Click the above headline for information and how to apply.
olan Bink threw four touchdown passes and the Escanaba Eskymos broke a three-year losing streak against the arch-rival Gladstone Braves, 50-7, Friday night at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Iron Mountain High School football team faced its toughest test of the season Thursday night, and the Mountaineers passed the test with flying colors. Iron Mountain raced to a 21-0 lead over the Negaunee Miners and cruised to a 35-14 win in the season finale at Mountaineer Stadium. Click the above headline for details. (Iron Mountain Public Schools photo)
Jaxon Buckley scored four goals and Jett Buckley scored twice as the Kingsford High School soccer team swarmed the Montague Wildcats, 6-0, in the MHSAA regional semifinals Tuesday at Gaylord High School. Click the above headline for details. (Breitung Twp Schools photos)
THe Marquette Sentinels soccer team had its season come to an end Tuesday night with a 402 loss to Fruitport in the MHSAA regional semifinals at Gaylord High School. Click the above headline for details. (Mary Sysko/MSHS photos)
The Marquette Sentinels boys varsity soccer team hosted the Petoskey Northman for the district championship at the Kaufman Sports Complex Saturday in Marquette. The Sentinels dominated rom start-to-finish, winning, 6-0. Click the abpve headline for details. (Mary Sysko photo)
The Gladstone High School football team missed out on multiple chances in the red zone Friday night, and lost to the Calumet Copper Kings, 19-6, at the Marble Athletic Field. Ben Anderson scored two touchdowns and rushed for 173 yards as Calumet stayed alive in the playoff race. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Stephenson Eagles rolled up more than 500 yards of offense and dominated in the trenches on both sides of the ball, beating the Rapid River Rockets, 52-12, Thursday night on Rockets Senior Night in Rapid River. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Gladstone High School football team got off to a strong start Friday night in Houghton against the Gremlins, but things quickly from there as Houghton enjoyed a 42-17 win over the Braves on Parent's Night at Alumni Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls volleyball team picked up a non-conference win Tuesday night, beating the injury-plagued Bark River-Harris Broncos, 3-0. The scores were 25-13, 25-16, and 25-20. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews, and U.P. scores.
Tanner Theuerkauf threw two touchdwn passes and ran in two more scores as the top-ranked Menominee Maroons stayed undefeated with a 49-7 win over the Gladstone Braves on Braves Homecoming Friday night. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
