The Norse Cross Country Teams finished off their regular season schedule over the weekend in downstate Muskegon at the Jayhawk Invitational. A number of Bay harriers finished with their best times of the year. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse softball team finally got on the field in competition for the first time since playing a dozen games in Florida last March. The season got cancelled, and then all of the fall exhibition games were called off. The team broke into two teams for a a pair of scrimmages this weekend. Click the above headline for pictures/
The Bay College Norse hosted a three-team cross country event on Saturday in Gladstone. Escanaba native Zach Rose won the men's race in 30:02 while North Central College took the top three spots in the women's race. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Athletics Department is preparing for a round of home events, including the addition of a softball scrimmage on Saturday and a home cross country meet the same day. Click the above headline to see which teams will be competing.
The Bay College Norse Cross Country Team returned to action Friday at Kirtland Community College. The men would finish in tenth place out of 13 teams, while the women ended up in eleventh place. Click the above headline to read details.
The Green Bay Packers announced on Tuesday that plans to have some spectators at Lambeau Field have been put on hold indefinitely. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University Swim & Dive teams hosted their annual Green and Gold Meet, and also celebrated the 2020 Women's Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship with a ring ceremony, Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
Bay College Athletic Director Matt Johnson has announced that the Bay Invitational Softball Scrimmages that were scheduled for this weekend have been cancelled. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse Cross Country Teams began their season Friday evening at Kirtland Community College. Zach Rose of Escanaba set the pace for the Norse with a second place finish. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University Athletics Department has announced the newest inductees to the NMU Sports Hall of Fame. There will be mo ceremony due to the coronavirus. Click the above headline to see who's being inducted.
The Northern Michigan University football team reacted Wednesday to the announcement that their season was being cancelled, with hopes that they might be able to salvage a season next spring. Click the above headline to read more, listen to interviews.
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference decided on Wednesday to cancel all fall sports, including football and volleyball, for the rest of 2020, with the hopes of playing those sports in the spring. This effects Northern Michigan, Michigan Tech, and Lake Superior State Universities. Click the above headline for details.
There will be no postseason championships for fall sports in NCAA Division Two, which Northern Michigan and Michigan Tech Universities compete in. Wednesday's announcement does not cancel regular season games. Click the above headline for more.
Gladstone High School graduate and former Bay College Norse baseball player Lucas Weinert has found a new home. He'll attend school and play ball at Aquinas College in downstate Grand Rapids. Click the above headline for details.
Finlandia University in Hancock has cancelled football and its other sports seasons (soccer and volleyball). Click the above headline for details.
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association Board of Directors has voted unanimously to welcome the University of St. Thomas as the league's eighth program beginning with the 2021-22 season. Click the above headline to read detals.
The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Council of Presidents voted to play a conference-only schedule during the Fall 2020 sports season and will evaluate the feasibility of league competition on a sport-by-sport basis. Click the above headline for details.
Former NMU Wildcat defenseman Phil Beaulieu, has agreed to a two-way deal with the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League and the Allen Americans of the East Coast Hockey League. Click the above headline to read more details.
The National Junior College Athletic Association on Monday approved a plan that will shift fall sports like football to the spring, and delay the start of winter sports seasons until January. Bay College Athletic Director Matt Johnson says cross country will go as scheduled, and basketball will have great opportunities despite a January start. Click the above headline for details.
The reconstituted Central Collegiate Hockey Association, which will begin play in the 2021-22 season, has named Don Lucia as Commissioner, the seven member schools announced Wednesday. Click the above headline to read details.
Northern Michigan University Women's Soccer and Head Coach Jon Sandoval has named Darian Powell to be the team's new assistant coach. Click the above headline for details.
Sault Ste. Marie native Abby Roque was named the nation's top women's hockey player by USA Hockey on Wednesday. The University of Wisconsin senior had 26 goals and 58 points for the Badgers last season. Click the above headline for details. (UW Photo)
After announcing plans two weeks ago to have local baseball and softball seasons, the Escanaba and Gladstone Little Leagues both reversed course on Tuesday and decided to cancel their plans. Click the above headline to read the details.
Northern Michigan University's cross country team has signed seven athletes to attend school and run for the Wildcats this fall, including two Upper Peninsula natives. Click the above headline to read details about NMU's new recruits.
The Bay College Athletic Department announced Kaitlyn Hardwick as the recipient of the Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award for the 2019-2020 school year. Hardwick has been a two-sport athlete for the Norse. Click the above headline to read more.
Finlandia University has accepted an offer to join the Capital Athletic Conference, effective immediately. Click the above headline to read more details.
Brooke Dalgord will continue to play basketball in the Upper Peninsula this fall, and she’ll do it relatively close to home. Less than a week after graduating from Bay College, Dalgord on Tuesday signed to continue her education and athletic career at Finlandia University in Hancock. Click the above headline to read details.
Ishpeming High School graduate Dondre Yohe, who played the past two seasons for the Bay College Norse, will be wearing Green and Gold next winter. Or more like a suit and tie. Yohe will join the Northern Michigan University men's basketball program as a student assistant coach. Click the above headline for details.
Northern Michigan University on Monday revealed the rest of its 2019-20 award winners, with the Team of the Year award going to the swimming and diving team, and the Gildo Canale Senior Awards going to hockey's Phil Beaulieu, cross country runner Katelyn Smith, and swimmer Rachel Helm. Click the above headline to see all of the award winners.
Bay College sophomore center Christian Alexander signed his National Letter of Intent to play NCAA Division One basketball at Gardner-Webb University, a school located in North Carolina from the Big South conference. Click the above headline for details.
