The Michigan High School Athletic Association individual regional wrestling tournaments were held on Saturday, and 32 Upper Peninsula boys have qualified for the state finals at Ford Field. Seven of them won regional champions. Click the above headline for details.
Matthew Schutz scored 37 points and Levi Frahm added 21 as the Painesdale-Jeffers Jets avenged last year's overtime loss in Escanaba by winning Friday night, again in overtime, 75-68, at the Escanaba High School Gym. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
Munising High School junior Trevor Nolan scored a school record 44 points and crossed the 1,000 point mark for his Mustangs career after an 84-46 win over Rapid River Tuesday night. Click the above headline for details, and to hear from Nolan.
Norway High School senior Alex Ortman has signed his National Letter of Intent to play two sports, baseball and basketball, at Galludet University in Washington, D.C. Click the above headline to read more about his big decision.
Sophomore Lillie Johnson scored 37 points as part of another double-double, and the Gladstone Braves rallied from ten points down to beat the Escanaba Eskymos, 60-51, Monday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details. (Gladstone Athletics photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team picked up a win in its regular season home game Friday night, 4-1, over DePere Voyageurs, at the Wells Sports Complex. Graham Johnson scored a hat trick and Brett Labre scored on Senior Night. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team scored four late goals, two of them empty-netters, to steal a 4-1 victory from the Manistique Emeralds Tuesday night in Manistique. Graham Johnson had the tying goal, and Carson Hughes the go-ahead goal as the Eskymos beat the Emeralds for the sixth straight time. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Escanaba High School senior girls basketball player Keira Maki crossed the 1,000 point mark for her Eskymo career by scoring 30 points Monday night as the Eskymos beat Gwinn, 63-31, at the Escanaba High School Gym. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team scored three goals in the first 2:45 of the game and coasted to a 8-0 win over the Shawano-Bonduel combined team Friday night in Wells. Two Eskymos, Hunter Allen and Sam Spear, scored third first-ever Eskymo goals in the win. Click the above headline for details, and photos, videos taken by Liz Taylor.
The Escanaba High School hockey team opened a three-games-in-four nights stretch Tuesday night with a 9-1 win over the Negaunee Miners in Negaunee. Click the above headline for details, photos and videos taken by Ben Sands, and to listen to post-game interviews,
The Escanaba High School hockey team scored three times in the final 2:11 of the game to stun the Manistique Emeralds, 4-2, Tuesday night, in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos and videos taken by Liz Taylor, and to hear interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Gladstone Braves met for the second time in five days on the wrestling mat, and the result was the same Monday night in Gladstone. The Braves beat the Eskymos by an even larger score than last time, 63-12. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The North-South High School Hockey Showcase wrapped up Saturday in snowbound Traverse City, with three Upper Peninsula teams in action. And there was extra hockey for all three U.P. teams as Escanaba, Kingsford, and Marquette playing overtime. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team braved the elements on Friday to head below the Bridge and compete in the North-South Showcase in Traverse City, and it came up successful as the Eskymos knocked off the sixth-ranked Bay City Wolves, 5-3. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team fell behind early on the scoreboard but used their depth to beat the Escanaba Eskymos, 51-30, Wednesday night in Escanaba. The Eskymos led, 24-0, after the first four matches, but then the Braves took control from there. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team jumped to a 19-0 lead Tuesday night and cruised to a 62-35 win over the Bark River-Harris Broncos in Harris. The Eskymos swept the season series from the Broncos. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School hockey team snapped a four-game losing streak Thursday night with a 4-2 win over the Kingsford Flivvers at the Mountain View Ice Arena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Marquette High School boys basketball team went on two runs in the second half to build a lead, and then cruised to a 63-56 Great Northern Conference win over the Escanaba Eskymos Tuesday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
Aydan Miles scored a double hat trick, six goals, to help the Negaunee Miners hockey team win the opening game of a tournament in Wisconsin on Wednesday, 8-5, over the host Waupaca Comets. Miles added an assist for seven total points as the Miners rallied from a 5-2 third period deficit to pick up the road win. Click the above headline for more details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team battled from two goals down to force an overtime shootout on Wednesday, but lost to the Capital City Capitals, 2-0, in the shooutout, and 6-5, in the game. Click the above headline to read the details.
About three dozen Escanaba High School hockey players from years gone by came home on Saturday to compete in a pair of alumni games at the Wells Sports Complex. The guys (and one gal) were broken down into White and Black teams, with one game being for the "old timers" and the other being for the "young bucks". Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School hockey team lost its fourth straight game to a team from the Keweenaw Peninsula Friday night, falling to the Calumet Copper Kings, 4-3, at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews. (Cooper LaMarch photo)
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team led from start-to-finish Thursday night to beat a young Bark River-Harris team, 74-26, at the Escanaba High School Gym. The Eskymos also beat Gladstone, 62-58, Friday night. click the above headeline for details.
The North Central High School boys basketball team had four players score in double figures Monday night, posting an easy 64-47 win over a young Bark River-Harris Broncos team. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Munising Mustang wrestling team competed in the Bridge Brawl in Sault Ste. Marie on Friday, going 5-0 in the tournament. All of the Mustangs points throughout the day-long event either came on pins, or on opponet forfeits. Click the above headline for details, photos.
The Hancock Bulldogs hockey team scored three third period goals to break a 2-2 tie and beat the Escanaba Eskymos, 5-2, Friday night, in Escanaba. Todd Kilpela scored two of those three third period goals for Hancock. Click the above headline for photos taken by Lizzy Taylor.
Graham Johnson had a hand in all four goals, scoring twice and getting a pair of assists, as the Escanaba Eskymos turned back the Ashwaubenon Jaguars, 4-1, Tuesday night in Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team played its first home game of the season on Monday, and the Eskymos went down to the wire with the Norway Knights, pulling out a 69-65 win in an entertaining contest before a large crowd. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
Nolan Bink had a goal and six assists as the Escanaba Eskymos beat a shorthanded Negaunee Miners team, 10-2, Tuesday night, at the Wells Sports Complex. Alex Schwalbach added a hat trick and Carson Hughes chipped in two goals in the win. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos taken by Liz Taylor and Cooper LaMarch.
The Painesdale-Jeffers Jets scored five unanswered goals to break a 2-2 tie and defeat the Escanaba Eskymos, 7-2, Friday night at the Meadowbrook Arena in L'Anse. Kailob Bianco, a L'Anse student on the Jeffers co-op team, led the way with a hat trick on his home ice. Click the above headline for details, pictures, videos, and interviews.
