The Escanaba Eskymos came within an inch of forcing overtime Tuesday night, but a shot off of the crossbar allowed Marquette to hang on for a 2-1 win at Lakeview Arena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Menominee Maroons football team fought hard on Sunday against heavily-favored Jackson Lumen Christi in the MHSAA Division Seven state championship game, but lost, 34-30, in an entertaining, back-and-forth contest at Detroit's Ford Field. Click the above headline for the details, and to listen back to the Maroons radio broadcast.
The Escanaba High School hockey team brought home some hardware after winning the Cathy Buchanan Invitational at Traverse City's Centre Ice Arena. The Eskymos lost to Traverse City Central, 4-3, in overtime, on Friday, before beating T.C. West, 7-3, on Saturday. Click the above headline for details from both games.
The Escanaba High School hockey team picked up its first win of the season Tuesday night, beating the Kingsford Flivvers, 7-2, in a battle of two depleted hockey teams. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and radio interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on Wednesday released its All-U.P. football awards for the Eight-Man divisions. A group of 21 reporters from across the Upper Peninsula spent several hours during a meeting at Northern Michigan University to come up with this list. Click the above headline to see the award winners.
The Upper Peninsuila Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association released its All-UP high school volleyball teams on Monday. Kingsford's Maddy Kreider was named Ms. Volleyball as the U.P.'s top player, and was the D1-3 Defensive Player of the Year. Manistique's Ella Schuetter was named the D1-3 Offensive Player of the Year. Click the above headline to see the list.
The Gladstone High School football team fell behind early and never could recover Friday night, losing to the Kingsley Stags, 51-27, in the MHSAA Division Six regional championship game. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswiters and Sportscasters Association on Thursday released its All-U.P. football players for the 11-man division. Click the above headline for details
The high school football playoffs are winding down, with teams from across the Upper Peninsula competing in several divisions losing this weekend. Only Menominee plays on. Click the above headline to see all of the schedules and scores.
The Gladstone Braves football team ended four years of playoff frustration by beating the Negaunee Miners, 28-14, Friday night, at the Marble Athletic Field. The Braves took down the defending state runners-up, and the team that had ended their season in each of the past three playoffs. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
The Escanaba Eskymos played hard after falling behind by two sets in Monday night's MHSAA volleyball district tournament opener, winning the third set and nearly winning the fourth, before losing to the Houghton Gremlins, 3-1, in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and comments from both teams' head coaches.
The North Central High School football team opened defense of its threepeat state championship on Saturday with a dominating 54-20 win over the previously-undefeated Posen Vikings in Lower Michigan. Click the above headline for details, videos, photos, interveiws.
The Gladstone High School football team opened MHSAA Division Six playoff action Friday night with a workmanlike 28-7 win over the Boyne City Ramblers at the Marble Athletic Field. Eli Berthume rushed for three touchdowns and the Braves defense pitched a shutout until the back-ups allowed a score in the fourth quarter. Click the above headline for details.
The Manistique Hogh School volleyball team wrapped up a successful regular season Thursday night, with a rather easy 3-0 win over the Escanaba Eskymos. The scores were 25-21, 25-14, and 25-15. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and other UP scores.
Mother Nature was not kind for the Marquette High School soccer team, and Lady Luck wasn't either, as the boys faced the Fruitport Trojans in an MHSAA Division Two regional semifinal game in Gaylord late Tuesday night. Marquette lost the game, 2-0. Click the above headline for details. (MSHS Photo by Michelle Grunert)
The soccer season came to an end for the Kingsford Flivvers late Tuesday night in Gaylord, as the Flivvers couldn't hold a 2-0 lead and lost at the very end of regulation time to the Fremont Packers, 3-2, in Gaylord. Click the above headline for details.
The Kingsford High School soccer team is preparing for the biggest game in school history on Tuesday, when the Flivvers head downstate to face Fremont in the MHSAA Division Three regional semifinals. Click the above headline for details. (Coleton Mihelich photo)
The MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals for cross country were held in Gladstone on Saturday, and there were repeat champions on the boys side as Marquette, Painesdale-Jeffers, and Dollar Bay won titles. Click the above headline for details, photos, courtesy of MHSAA.
The Marquette High School boys soccer team made history on Saturday, winning a MHSAA District Championship with a dramatic win over Petoskey on penalty kicks. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos courtesy of MSHS soccer.
The Gladstone Braves raced to a 27-0 lead in the first half and cruised to a 30-0 victory over the Escanaba Eskymos Friday night, ending Escanaba's season and sending the Braves into the playoffs as a No. 1 seed. Click the above headline for details, photos, interviews.
The U.P. Division One Girls Tennis Awards have been announced, and the co-champion Escanaba Eskymos and Negaunee Miners cleaned up the top awards. Escanaba's Sophia Derkos led the way, winning her second straight U.P. Player of the Year award. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School boys varsity soccer team made the most of the new ability to take part in the MHSAA State tournament. Marquette beat Alpena, 3-0, Tuesday afternoon, at the Kaufman Sports Complex. Click the above headline for details. (Mary Sysko photo)
The Kingsford High School volleyball team moved to within one win of the outright Great Northern Conference championship with a 3-0 win over the Escanaba Eskymos Tuesday night. The scores were 25-16, 25-16, and 25-15. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, interviews, and other Upper Peninsula scores.
The Gladstone Braves scored 21 unanswered points in the second half to beat the Calumet Copper Kings, 28-21, Friday night in the Copper Country. Eli Berthaume scored all four touchdowns for the Braves. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
They didn't do it the easy way, but the Norway Knights football team finally slay the dragon Thursday night in a rivalry match-up with the North Central Jets. Norway fell behind, 14-0, but rallied to win, 32-26. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Kingsford Flivvers beat the Marquette Redmen, 2-1, in an intense boys soccer title game to win the Upper Peninsula championship. The match went past regulation time tied at 1-1, and after overtime solved nothing, it went to penalty kicks to decide it. Click the above headline for details. (MSHS Soccer Photo)
The Bark River-Harris Broncos rolled up 470 yards of total offense and Dominick Lantagne rushed for 177 yards and four touchdowns in a 49-8 win over the West Iron County Wykons on Saturday in Stambaugh. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews
The Northern Michigan football team battled at No. 16 Davenport on Saturday afternoon, falling 28-12. The Wildcats kept it close throughout most of the contest, but back-to-back scores from Davenport early in the fourth quarter put it away. Click the above headline fror details.
The Gladstone Braves scored three touchdowns in the second half, and the defense pitched a shutout, as the Braves pulled away from the Houghton Gremlins on Homecoming, 31-8, Friday night. Eli Berthaume scored three touchdowns in that second half, and the defense forced twqo fumbles, as the Braves improved to 5-2. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Negaunee Miners finished as co-Upper Peninsula champions after Wednesday's MHSAA Division One Tournament in Marquette. Both teams finished undefeated seasons after they tied for first with 16 points each. Westwood had a great day, too, with 14 points. CLick the above headline for details.
