The Norway Knights baseball team advanced to the state championship game for the first time in school history on Friday with a dramatic 3-2 win over Marine City Cardinal Mooney at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School softball team had its season come to an end on Wednesday, falling in the state quarterfinals to the Evart Wildcats, 9-0, in Cadillac. It ended a long stretch of softball for a group of seniors who have played together since elementary school. Click the above headline for details, and for photos taken by Jayger Quinn.
The Escanaba High School softball team had its season come to an end in Sunday as the defending state champion Gaylord Blue Devils rolled to a 12-2 win over the Eskymos in the Division Two regional championship game. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
Montgomery Pepin threw two complete games to lead the Gladstone Braves softball team to a regional championship. The Braves beat Boyne City, 7-1, in the semifinals, and then pulled out a 2-0 win in the championship game over Grayling. Click the above headline for details.
The Norway High School baseball team had its biggest day in program history on Saturday, winning a regional championship, and then dominating the quarterfinal game to advance to the state finals at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School softball team hit five home runs and beat the Freeland Falcons, 8-4, in the MHSAA Division Two Regional Semifinal Saturday in Cadillac. The field was flooded by constant heavy rains, so the rest of the action was postponed until Sunday. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School baseball team had its season come to an end on Saturday, falling to the Charlevoix Rayders, 12-1, in six innings, in the regional championship game at Traverse City Central High School. Click the above headline for details.
Lenny Peacock pitched a complete game with eight strikeouts, but the Escanaba Eskymos lost to the Petoskey Northmen, 3-0, in the MHSAA Division Two regional semifinals at Turcott Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Petoskey Northmen sat out a lengthy rain delay on Wednesday in Sault Ste. Marie, and then after the field was almost ready for baseball, another downpour sent both teams home. The MHSAA Division Two regional semifinal game was postponed, and will be played on Thursday. Click the above headline for details.
The Norway High School baseball team battled several rain delays, and then beat a tough Painesdale-Jeffers Jets team in come-from-behind fasion, 4-3, in the MHSAA Division Four Regional Semifinal at Norway's Marion Park. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves baseball team scored three runs in the sixth inning and held off the Houghton Gremlins, 6-3, in the MHSAA Division Three regional semifinals Wednesday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for interviews, videos and photos taken by Jayger Quinn.
The Gladstone High School softball team had to battle countless times in their district final against Menominee, but managed, somehow, to pull through, 4-3, in eight innings, at Menominee High School. The Braves had earlier shut out Iron Mountain, and the Maroons had done the same to Manistique. Click the above healdine for photos taken by Jayger Quinn.
The Escanaba High School baseball team slipped past the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils and Cheboygan Chiefs on Saturday to win the Eskymos' first district championship in three years. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Gladstone High School baseball team won its tenth straight district championship Friday evening, beating the Superior Central Cougars, 5-2, and topping the Manistique Eneralds, 11-1, to advance to the regional semifinal round. Click the above headline for details.
Mid Peninsula High School golfer Bradly VanDamme won his second straight Division Three U.P. championship on Thursday, holding off his little brother by three strokes at the U.P. Finals in Escanaba. The North Central Jets, meanwhile, had four of the top ten golfers and won the team championship with ease. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee High School boys tennis team took home another Upper Peninsula Division One championship on Wednesday. It's the tenth time in 13 years that the Miners have won the title. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MHSAA. (MSHS Photo)
The Escanaba Eskymos are back on top in high school girls golf after winning the MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula championship Wednesday at the Wawonowin County Club in west Ishpeming. Click the above headline for details, photos, interviews.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos won the MHSAA Division Two girls golf Upper Peninsula championship on Wednesday, the school's first title in a decade. BR-H senior Ava McDonough was the medalist. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MHSAA/Jason Juno.
The Gladstone High School baseball team pounded out 18 base hits Tuesday evening, with six different guys getting two hits apiece, and the Braves beat the Menominee Maroons, 16-2, in the MHSAA Division Three district tournament opener at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos taken by GHS student Jayger Quinn.
The Bark River-Harris High School baseball team wrapped up its regular season Friday night with a 6-3 loss to the Escanaba Junior Varsity Eskymos at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for details, video clips, and post-game comments.
Lenny Peacock and Alex Ortman hooked up in an old-fashioned pitcher's duel Thursday night as the Escanaba Eskymos and Norway Knights played another tight baseball game. Escanaba won the game, 1-0, as Peacock struck out ten batters and allowed two hits. Ortman threw a one-hitter, but three walks in the first inning hurt him. Click the above headline for details.
The Great Northern Conference baseball coaches met on Wednesday in Escanaba, and picked their All-Conference teams. Kingsford, Marquette, Escanaba, Gladstone, and Menominee all were represented in the meeting. Click the above headline to see the details.
The Gladstone Braves baseball team avenged an earlier-season loss to the rival Escanaba Eskymos Tuesday night, 6-0, at Don Olsen Field. The game was shortened to five innings when heavy rains rolled through the area. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team scored eight runs in the second inning and cruised past the Superior Central Cougars, 8-1, Monday night at Al Ness Field. The Eskymos turned three double plays on defense and Nick Chiu and Ashton Rymkos combined to throw a one-hitter in the six-inning game. Click the above headline to see photos and videos.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association Representative Council has made multiple changes to a number of sports, including the seeding of the entire basketball district tournaments. The MHSAA also added boys volleyball and girls field hockey. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School baseball team scored four runs in the first two innings and held on to beat the Gladstone Braves, 4-3. Click the above headline for details, listen to post-game interviews, and see photos and videos taken by GHS student Jayger Quinn.
The Escanaba High School softball team swept a doubleheader from the Gladstone Braves, 5-2 and 13-3, Tuesday night at Lemmerand Park. Click the above headline for details, interviews, and to see photos and videos taken by GHS student Jayger Quinn.
Escanaba Eskymos senior Bon LaChance has set the school's all-time career record for runs batted in with 92. He broke the record during Escanaba's 6-2 win in Kingsford Tuesday night. The old record, held by Steve Berg, had stood since 2006. Click the above headline for details.
Sophomore Ashton Rymkos smacked his first varsity home run and senior Ben Johnson starred on both offense and defense as the Escanaba Eskymos beat the Manistique Emeralds, 9-3, Monday night, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos boys tennis team won three of the four doubles matches, and posted a 5-3 win over the Marquette Sentinels Monday afternoon in Escanaba. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos from several of the matches.
