The Northern Michigan University Athletic Department announced the 2019-20 Wildcat Awards on Monday. The awards will be presented through social media and the official NMU Athletics website. Awards will be presented through May 4, finishing with the announcement of the Gildo Canale Outstanding Senior Award, Athletes of the Year, and Team of the Year. Click the above headline for details.
NJCAA Region 13 announced the All-Region Basketball Teams. Bay College's Christian Alexander and Kaitlyn Hardwick were recognized among the best players in the region. Click the above headline to read more and see video highlights from both players.
A member of the Bay College men’s basketball team will continue to play the sport he loves. Luke Mattson said on Thursday that he has accepted an offer from the University of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. Click the above headline to read his story.
NMU-National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestler Spencer Woods had qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials, scheduled for this upcoming weekend. With the competition canceled, the Summer Olympics postponed until 2021, and his dream deferred, he has returned to his home state of Alaska. Woods is on self-quarantine, living in an Arctic oven tent with a wood stove until he can join his parents in their village. (NMU Photo Sandy Slater)
Bay College Athletic Director Matt Johnson has announced that Matt Gregory has been hired as the Head Women's Basketball Coach. Gregory served as the interim coach for the end of the 2019-2020 season. Click the above headline to read more details.
Sault Ste. Marie High School graduate and University of Wisconsin hockey player Abby Roque has been named an All-American, along with Badgers teammate Daryl Watts. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of UW Athletics.
Two members of the Bay College Norse baseball team are thousands of miles away from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Click the above headline to learn more about David Ibn Ezra and Nicolas Goebert, and their plans for dealing with the crisis.
The Bay College Norse baseball and softball seasons officially came to an end on Monday with the NJCAA announcement that the spring sports seasons have been canceled due to the coronavirus. The organization had temporarily suspended the seasons on Friday. Click the above headline to hear interviews.
Tanner Halvorson threw a nine-inning two-hitter on Friday as the Bay College Norse blanked the Northwestern Minnesota Eagles, 3-0, in Fort Pierce, Fla. Halvorson's performance follows the no-hitter that he threw earlier in the week, and he struck out 16 batters for the seccond time. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse softball team finished the Florida trip on Friday by beating the Chesapeake Skip Jacks, 9-1, at Chain Of Lakes Park in Titusville, Fla. The Norse got a complete-game pitching performance from Eden Oswald as she scattered three base hits and struck out ten batters. Click the above headline to see photos taken by Brad Landis.
Finlandia University has decided to cancel the remainder of its spring sports seasons. The decision was made due to the quickly-evolving COVID-19 situation. Click the above headline to read details.
The Bay College Norse softball team held a late lead in both of their games against Spoon River (Illinois) College Snappers on Thursday, but dropped both ends of the doubleheader, 8-6 in nine innings, and 6-5, in Titusville, Fla. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
Dane VanDenHeuvel had a double and a triple at the plate, and Scotty Adams pitched six strong innings, as the Bay College Norse snapped a five-game losing streak Wednesday with a 17-5 win over Nyack (N.Y.) College. That followed a 16-6 loss to the College of Lake County (Ill.), 16-6, in which Ben Snyder
The Bay Softball Team got their record above .500 with a pair of wins over St. Clair County Community College by final scores of 10-7 and 12-3.Lexi Chaillier hit a home run in both games to continue her strong batting. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team got a great pitching performance from Kyler Moir on Tuesday, but the lack of clutch hitting and shoddy sixth inning defense caused the Norse to lose to Miami ASA College, 7-1, in West Palm Beach. The Norse then dropped the nightcap, 16-0. Click the above headline for details, photos taken by Brad Landis.
Former Wildcat hockey head coach Rick Comley was named the 2020 recipient of the Hobey Baker Legend of College Hockey award as announced by the Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College softball team rebounded from the tough weekend losses by winning three games on Monday, beating Itasca (Minn.), 12-3; St. Cloud (Minn.), 7-4; and Macomb Community College (Mich.), 16-7. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Baseball Team saw its first game slip away late as they lost to Hagerstown Community College by a final of 16-6. They were then overmatched by Miami University-Hamilton, 25-2. Click the above headline for photos, videos taken by Brad Landis.
Tanner Halvorson threw a complete-game no-hitter, striking out 16 batters as the Bay College baseball team beat Alice Lloyd (Ky.) College, 9-0, Sunday at Vero Beach, Fla. The no-hitter was the first in the two-year history of Norse baseball, as Halverson walked three batters and threw 105 pitches. Click the above headline to read details.
The Bay College Norse softball team lost a pair of tight games on Sunday in Flordia, falling to Macomb County (Mich.) Community College, 6-5, and to the Community College of Rhode Island, 9-7. Both games went to the wire. Click the above headline to read details on both games, and to see photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team battled the Michigan Tech Huskies for more than 104 minute of playing time Saturday night, but fell to the Huskies, 4-3, in triple overtime, at the Berry Events Center. The loss eliminated the Wildcats from the WCHA tournament, and ended the team's 2019-2020 season. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse Baseball Team (1-1) opened their season by rebounding from a 16-7 loss to the University of Northwestern (MN) to get their first win of the year against Washington College by a final score of 15-7. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse softball team opened the 2020 Florida trip with a pair of losses on Saturday, falling to Sinclair (Ohio) Community College, 3-1 and 10-1, at Chain of Lakes Park in Titusville. Click the above headline for photos taken by Brad Landis.
he 2019-20 season came to a close for the Northern Michigan University women's basketball team as the fifth-seeded Wildcats fell to fourth-seeded Parkside in the GLIAC Quarterfinals, 80-67, Tuesday night, in Kenosha. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan Tech women's basketball team saw the 2019-20 season come to a close Tuesday night, falling at Grand Valley State 65-34 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Quarterfinals. Click the above headline to read details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team hosted its annual clinic for area students Saturday afternoon. There were two three-hour long sessions: one for third through eighth graders, and another for high school kids. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team scored a late goal Saturday night and beat the Michigan Tech Huskies, 3-2, in Houghton. Tech won Friday's game in Marquette, 8-4. The split gives NMU the third seed in the WCHA Playoffs, and Tech will be coming to Marquette next weekend. Click the above headline for details on both games.
The Michigan Tech University men's basketball team made 18 of 20 three-point attempts and rolled past the Northern Michigan University Wildcats, 91-61, Thursday night in Marquette. Both teams qualified for the GLIAC Tournament after all of the games were completed in the league. Click the above headline for details from both teams.
The Michigan Tech University women's basketball team eeked out a 51-48 win over the Northern Michigan University Wildcats Thursday night in Marquette. Both teams qualified for the GLIAC Tournament. Click the above headline to read details.
The Bay College men’s basketball team had its season come to an end Wednesday night in the NJCAA Region 13 semifinals, losing to Dakota County Technical College (Minn.), 82-71, at the Bay College Gym. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
