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.
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.
