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.
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.