The Negaunee Miners won seven flights and cruised to the championship of the Kingsford boys tennis invitational on Saturday. Escanaba finished second, winning one flight and getting three second-place finishes. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team lost two more tight games on Saturday, falling to the Kingsford Flivvers, 3-2, and to the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils, 4-0, in a rain-shortened game at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Iron Mountain senior pitcher Niko Burgoon pitched a gem and he got big help from freshman third baseman Connor Pickett on Thursday, and the duo led the Mountaineers to a 3-1 upset win over the Gladstone Braves at Ranger Field. Gladstone came back to take the nightcap, 17-6. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The Gladstone High School softball team pulled off two improbable comebacks against one of the best teams in the state Thursday night, beating the Negaunee Miners, 8-7 and 12-11. The Miners entered the doubleheader with a 19-1 record. Click the above headline for details.
Isaac Sarles threw a five-hit complete game shutout and the Marquette Sentinels took advantage of several Escanaba Eskymos defensive mistakes in posting a 3-0 win Wedmesday night at Marquette's Haley Field. Sarles outdueled Escanaba's Eli Gardner, who allowed only four hits nd one earned run in six innings. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos and 7th-ranked Southgate Anderson Titans hooked up in a pair of baseball games Saturday afternoon in Escanaba. After the Titans jumped to an eealy 4-0 lead and cruised to a 9-4 win in the opener, the two teams played a classic 1-0 game in the nightcap. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Southgate Anderson High School baseball team began a four-game Delta County road trip with a pair of victories over the Gladstone Braves on Friday, winning 14-3 and 11-2, at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details, and to hear coach and player interviews.
The Gladstone High School softball team won two games over the Houghton Gremlins, 10-0 and 10-5, Friday in Gladstone. The Braves improved to 9-6 on the season while the Gremlins fell to 7-6. Click the above headline to see photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
Bon LaChance hit a pair of home runs Wednesday as the Escanaba Eskymos swpt a baseball doubleheader from the Neguanee Miners, 6-5 and 6-1, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Kingsford High School baseball team won a Great Northern Conference game for the second straight night Wednesday night, taking out the Escanaba Eskymos, 9-1, at Al Ness Field. The win follows a 6-2 win over Marquette the night before, putting the Flivvers in the early driver's seat in the GNC conference race. Click the above headline for details.
It was an historic evening on Thursday for the Iron Mountain High School baseball program as the Mountaineers faced the L'Anse Purple Hornets. Senior pitcher Niko Burgoon tossed a perfect game, retiring all 15 batters he faced in the five-inning game. He struck out 14 of those batters. It was the first perfect game ever thrown by a Mountaineer pitcher. Iron Mountain won the game easily, 11-0, for its first win of the season (1-3).
The Gladstone Braves and Negaunee Miners hooked up in a pair of tightly-contested baseball games Thursday evening at Don Olsen Field. The Braves pulled out both games, 2-0 and 4-1, as the Miners stranded 16 baserunners in the doubleheader. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team opened its season with a 12-3 win over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers Wednesday night at Al Ness Field. Ben Johnson and Brian Boutilier both drove in two runs in an eight-run fifth inning that put the game away. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The high school baseball season got underway on Tuesday as the Gladstone Braves swept a doubleheader from the Iron Mountain Mountaineers, 17-2, and 6-1, at Don Olsen Field. It was a rematch of last spring's regional semifinal game, but there were a lot of new faces on the field for both teams on Tuesday. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announed the All-U.P. teams Friday night for the just-completed girls basketball season. Negaunee's Ella Mason was named Miss U.P. Basketball as the Upper Peninsula's best player. Click the above headline to see all of the winners. (Photo of Ella Mason/Hudl)
St. Ignace High School senior Jonny Ingalls was the unanimous choice for Mr. U.P. Basketball as the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association revealed its All-U.P. teams Wednesday evening. Click the above headline for the entire list.
The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team fell behind early, but recovered to pull past Kingston, 73-54, to win the MHSAA Division Four state championship Saturday in East Lansing. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA photo, story)
The Negaunee Miners historic girls basketball season came to an end in the MHSAA Division Two state semifinals on Friday night with a 63-46 loss to Detroit Edison at the MSU Breslin Center. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Story, MHSAA Photo/Hockey Weekly Action)
The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team got 30 points from Jenna Maki, 22 of them in the first half, and the Hematites rolled past the Fowler Eagles, 75-40, in the MHSAA Division Four state semifinals Thursday night at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the MHSAA. (MHSAA photo)
Isabella DeWildt of Sault Ste. Marie High School was honored as a recipient of the Michigan High School Athletic Association/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award. The presentatipon was made at the boys basketball finals last weekend at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. She will receive $2,000 to use at her college of choice. (MHSAA Photo)
The MHSAA girls basketball playoffs are in full swing across the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules.
The St. Ignace High School boys basketball team had a six-point lead in the fourth quarter of their Division Four state semifinal game against Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian on Thursday, but could not hold on, losing, 60-53. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Photo)
THe high school boys basketball post-season is winding down. Click the above headline for all of the Upper Peninsula's scores and schedules.
Gladstone High School junior Matt Meyer became just the third Upper Peninsula high school bowler ever to qualify for the state championship match last weekend at the MHSAA Division Three state finals in Jackson. Click the above headline to read his story.
Fifteen Upper Peninsula high school wrestlers reached the podium and earned medals Saturday at the MHSAA Individual State Finals at Detroit's Ford Field. Three wrestlers finished as state runners-up, with another finishing third and two finishing fourth. Click the above headline to see how all 36 U.P. wrestlers did. (Pictured: Gladstone's Drew Hansen).
The Upper Peninsula high school hockey post-season is wrappimng up. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules for the ten Upper Peninsula varsity hockey teams.
Three Upper Peninsula high school wrestlers will compete for state championships Saturday night at Ford Field in Detroit, after winning all of their matches at the MHSAA Individual State Championships on Friday. Click the above headline for details. (Pictured: Gladstone's Drew Hansen will wrestle for a state title, and Escanaba's Cade Krueger is alive in the consolation brcakets)
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team played strong defense and upset the Negaunee Miners, 51-48, in the Division Two district semifinals Wednesday night. CLick the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
Connor Stade scored two goals, Nash Rippi added a goal and a three-assist playmaker, and Tony DeMattia registered four assists, as the Marquette High School hockey team defeated the Escanaba Eskymos, 7-1, in the MHSAA Division Three Regional Semifinals Thursday night at Lakeview Arena. Click the thumbnails for photos, videos, taken by Lizzie Taylor.
The Escanaba Eskymos went into survival mode Tuesday night as the MHSAA regional playoffs begam, grinding out a 3-1 win over the Negaunee Miners and their stubborn goaltender, Patrick Klumpp. Click the above headline for details, plus photos, videos taken by Lizzie Taylor.
