The Rapid River High School girls softball team won twice on Thursday to win a MHSAA Division Four district championship. The Rockets beat Munising, 15-0, and then in the championship game, Rapid River edged Newberry, 5-2, to advance to the regionals. Gladstone beat Houghton, 10-0, and Bark River-Harris topped Jeffers, 11-6. Click the above headline to see details.
The Iron Mountain Mountaineers and Westwood Patriots finished in a tie for the MHSAA Division Two boys tennis U.P. championship on Thursday. Munising finished third. Click the above headline to read all of the scores.
Finlandia University announced 35 players will join its first-ever football team, including 19 boys from the Upper Peninsula. They join 24 other players who are wrapping up their first year at Finlandia this spring. Click the above headline for details.
Sam Hall pitched a two-hit shutout to lead the Bark River-Harris Broncos to a 10-0 win over the Stephenson Eagles in the MHSAA Division Four district tournament Wednesday in Norway. Click the above headline to read more details. Pictured above: Sam Hall.
The Kingsford Flivvers won the MHSAA Division One boys tennis championship on Wednesday, edging Negaunee, 16-12. Marquette and Menominee both finished with ten points. Gladstone's highlight was the doubles team of Tyler Wells and Jeremy Kadish, who advanced to the semfinals.
The Gladstone High School baseball team pounded out 14 hits and beat the Hancock Bulldogs, 14-1, in a Division Three district tournament game Tuesday in Gladstone. Justin Jurek and Jake Peterson drove in five and four runs, respectively, on a foggy, rainy evening. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and videos taken by Nate Bellville.
The Rapid River High School girls softball team rolled to a 13-0 win over the Pickford Panthers in Division Four district tournament action Tuesday in Newberry. Superior Central, Newberry, Gwinn, and Cheboygan also posted softball wins Tuesday.
The Escanaba High School boys tennis team tuned up for the U.P. Finals with an 8-0 dual meet win over West Iron County under rainy conditions on Tuesday afternoon. Click the above headline to read the details.
The Escanaba High School baseball program was launched in 2002, and the program has seen a lot of success in the recent years. But many people don't realize that there was an Eskymo baseball program back in the 1950's. The Michigan High School Athletic Association is remembering that early program. Click the above headline to read details.
Brandon Punzel pitched a one-hitter and had two hits to lead the Escanaba Eskymos to a 5-1 win over Kingsford in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday. Then Punzel drove in two runs as the Eskymos won the nightcap, 5-0. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos taken by Sandi Young, and hear interviews.
Riley Lynch scattered five hits over six innings and struck out eleven batters to lead the Marquette Redmen to a 5-1 win over the Gladstone Braves Friday night in Marquette. Justin Jurek's RBI single in the first inning plated Gladstone's only run. Click the above headline to read details and to see photos and videos taken by Laura Lamberg. Pictured above: Lynch was in control for most of Friday's game.
The Escanaba Eskymos edged the Gladstone Braves to win the Great Northern Conference boys golf championship Thursday in Marquette. The Eskymos won with 322 strokes, with Gladstone second at 325 and Marquette third with 329. Marquette won the girls title. Click the above headline to read details. Pictured above: Kyle Pouliot was the medalist.
Sean Bissell's single in the bottom of the eighth inning capped a dramatic comeback as the Escanaba Eskymos rallied for a 16-15 win over the Marinette Marines Thursday night at Al Ness Field. Escanaba rallied from deficits of 13-6 and 15-13 to post the victory. Click the above headline to read game details, and to see photos and videos taken by Sandi Young.
The high school softball season wrapped up on Thursday as the Escanaba Eskymos, Gladstone Braves, and Rapid River Rockets all played in doubleheaders. Escanaba split a doubleheader with Marquette, Gladstone split with Kingsford, and Rapid River took two from Superior Central. Click the above headline to read the details for all three teams.
The Gladstone High School boys golf team won the championship of the Marquette Invitational Wednesday at the North Shore Golf Course. Marquette's Brett Specker (pictured above) was the medalist, shooting a 74. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School softball team took both ends of a doubleheader from the Gladstone Braves on Tuesday. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to post-game interviews.
Hunter Garling threw a complete-game three-hitter to help the Gladstone Braves beat the Marinette Marines, 7-1, Tuesday afternoon at the Pederson Ballpark. Garling also had an RBI double as the Braves had eight base hits. Click the above headline for the details.
The Gladstone School Board voted Monday night to hire Clayton Castor to be the new varsity basketball head coach in the 2015-16 season. He replaces Dale Hongisto, who resigned on May 5th for family reasons. The school board officially accepted Hongisto's resignation at Monday night's meeting. Castor is a Gladstone High School graduate. He coached the Braves freshman basketball team last season.
The Gladstone High School boys tennis team battled a tough Marquette team on Monday, but fell to the Redmen, 5-3, on a windy day at Pfotenhauer Park. Click the above headline to read the match details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team played a pair of games in the Green Bay area Monday night, although they weren't quite what Coach Kirk Schwalbach expected. The Eskymos lost to the BayPort Pirates, 6-5, and then tied the Bay Port JV team, 0-0. Click the above headline to read the details.
The Escanaba High School tennis team won three singles and three doubles matches to beat the Munising Mustangs, 6-2, Monday on a windy day in Escanaba. Jordan Lombardo led the way for Escanaba at #1 singles, dominating Marquette's Jacob Schramm, 6-0, 6-0. Click the above headline for more details.
Elliot Danhoff pitched a complete game to lead the Gladstone Braves to a 4-3 win over the Crivitz Wolverines in high school baseball Monday night in northern Wisconsin. Click the above headline to read the game details.
The Escanaba High School softball team swept all three of its games Saturday at the Eskymo Softball Challenge at Lemmerand Park. The Eskymos beat Marshfield, Wis., Neenah, Wis., and Sault Ste. Marie to end the day with a perfect record. Rapid River also competed in the tournament, and fell to Neenah and the Sault. Click the above headline to read game details, and to see scores, photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School Baseball Team built a 5-0 lead and then hung on to post a 5-4 victory over the Green Bay Notre Dame Tritons Saturday in Green Bay. Jake Peterson pitched six scoreless innings and the Braves survived a scary seventh inning. Click the above headline to read details.
The Gladstone Braves won the championship of the Tawas Invitational on Saturday, beating the host Tawas Braves, 3-1, and then topping New Boston Huron, 6-5, in the championship. Morgan Kowalski and Tasi Martinez hit back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to turn a loss into a tournament championship.
The Shawano (Wis.) Hawks won the championship of the Bink's Coca Cola Baseball Invitational on Saturday in Escanaba. The Hawks beat Bark River-Harris, 6-2, and then pounded Escanaba, 13-2, in the championship game. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and videos.
Macey Charboneau threw a complete-game three-hitter...and she hit a two-run homer...to lead the Cheboygan Chiefs to a 3-1 win over the Escanaba Eskymos on Friday. Click the above headline to see photos and videos.
The Escanaba High School softball team pounded out 19 hits and beat the Gladstone Braves, 15-4, in the first game of a doubleheader Thursday in Gladstone. The Eskymos also won the nightcap, 4-2, to complete a sweep. Click the above headline to see details and photos.
The high school track season entered the post-season on Thursday as MHSAA Regionals were held across the Upper Peninsula. Marquette won both of the D-1 the boys and girls titles in Gladstone, while Munising did the same in both of the D-3 meets in Rapid River. Click the above headline to see results and photos. Pictured above: Escanaba's Ryan Timler throws the discus in Thursday's D-1 regional in Gladstone.
The Escanaba Eskymos met the North Central Jets for the first time on the baseball diamond on Thursday as the teams played a doubleheader at Al Ness Field. The Eskymos emerged with a doubleheader sweep, 9-1 and 17-6, as both teams used the twinbill to get ready for the district tournaments. Click the above headline to read more details.
