The Iron Mountain Golds beat the Menominee Red Wave, 5-2, Wednesday night at Spies Field. IM scored all five runs in the first two innings. Chase Carlson had a pair of doubles and drove in a run. Evan Haferkorn had a two-run single. Jimmy Coldren had two hits for the Red Wave. Three IM pitchers threw: Isaac Lorenzoni, Henry McRoberts, and Carson Chartier. Kennison Boivin took the loss for the Red Wave. Menominee won the nigtcap, 10-5.
The District Ten Little League All-Star tournament continued Monday night with Escanaba eliminating Iron Mountain North, 15-1, and Gladstone knocking off Kingsford, 10-2. Click the above headline for details, photos, and videos.
The Menominee Red Wave American Legion baseball team salvaged the final game of the Firecracker Tournament in Marinette, beating the Green Bay Preble Hornets, 1-0, in nine innings, on Sunday. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Norway Major Little League All-Stars (age 10-12) opened district tournament play with a 6-5 come-from-behind win over Escanaba Sunday evening at Escanaba's Karl Dickson Field. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion Baseball team had a rough weekend at the Marinette Firecracker Tournament, losing three of four games by wide margins to Wisconsin teams. Click the thumbnails to read details and see photos, video highlights.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team won two games at the Marinette Firecracker Tournament on Saturday, turning back Manitowoc, 5-4, in eight innings, and then pulling away from Green Bay Preble, 12-0. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The four Upper Peninsula American Legion teams taking part in the Marinette Firecracker Tournament took losses to their Wisconsin counterparts on Friday as the eight-team tournament got started. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The semifinals are set for the Gregg Johnson American Baseball Memorial Tournament in Delta County. Click the above headline for all of the scores and photos.
The Iron Mountain Golds, Copper Country Flames, and Marinette Legion baseball teams all went 2-0 on the first day of the Gregg Johnson Memorial tournament on a windy Friday in Delta County. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Gladstone Indians beat the Escanaba Cubs in the opening game of the Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament 7-6, Thursday night at Al Ness Field in Escanaba. Click the above headline for more details and interviews.
The Menominee Red Wave American Legion baseball team rode the pitching and hitting of Adrian Mercier and beat the Marquette Blues, 6-0, Tuesday night, in a match-up of two of last year's state tournament participants. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Junior Wildcats Midget BB 18U hockey team won another state championship on Sunday, this time, on home ice. The team, sponsored by Main Street Pizza, beat Fraser Big Boy, 11-0, at Lakeview Arena. It was a rematch of last year's state championship game, also won by Marquette. This year's team finished a perfect 39-0-0 on the season.
The Escanaba Hawks 14U bantam B hockey team won the MAHA State Championship on Sunday in Ironwood, rolling past Rochester, 11-0, in the semifinals, and then blasting Big Rapids, 10-1, in the championship game. Click the above headline for details and interviews.
The Escanaba Junior Hockey Association is home to two state champions, after the 10u Squirt team and the 12u Pee Wee team both dominated their way to championships on Sunday in Lower Michigan. Click the above headline for details and video highlights.
The Escanaba Hawks 12u Pee-Wee hockey team won a MAHA District Eight Upper Peninsula championship on Sunday, whipping Calumet in the semifinals, 13-2, and then taking Tahquamenon, 8-3, in the finals. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, interviews.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team eeked out a 45-36 win over the Marinette Marines in a dual meet Wednesday night in Escanaba. It was part of a triangular with the host Eskymos. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team captured a Class A state championship on Saturday, beating the surprising Copper Country Flames, 10-0, in an all-U.P. final at Marquette's Haley Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Menominee Red Wave American Legion baseball team had its season come to an end on Friday, losing to Rosebush out of Mount Pleasant, 9-2, in the state tournament in Marquette. Menominee had stayed alive earlier in the day with a 6-2 win over Blissfield. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and videos.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team advanced to the state championship game on Friday, with an easy 10-0 win over the Copper Country Flames at Haley Field. Erik Johnson barely broke a sweat, striking out 12 batters and allowing just two hits in five innings. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team turned to "small ball" to turn around their Class A State tournament opener against Rosebush from the Mount Pleasant area Thursday. The Blues put down several successful bunts to take the lead, and then held on at the end as the downstate team mounted a late challenge. Marquette won, 8-5. Click the above headline for details.
The Copper Country Flames American Legion Baseball team won two games at the state tournament in Marquette on Thursday, and they did it in dramatic fashion. The Flames beat Chief Pontiac out of Metro Detroit, 2-1, and then topped Menominee, 1-0. Amd they did it on walk-off's in the seventh inning. Click the above headline for details.
The Norway Minor Boys (age 8-10) Little League baseball team had its season come to an end in the state championship game on Wednesday, falling to Greater Bay County Little League from Lower Michigan, 4-2, before a huge crowd at Marion Park. Click tha above headline to read details and see photos and video highlights from the game.
The Norway Minor Little League All-Stars (age 9-10) advanced to the state semifinals on Monday with a 16-7 win over Techumseh in a quarterfinal game in Norway. Click the above headline for details, see photos and videos, and listen to post-game interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team cruised to two more victories on Sunday, winning the Upper Peninsula Zone Five championship at Gladstone's Don Olsen Field. The Blues victory ended a string of "near misses" over the past several years. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and radio interviews.
A successful baseball season came to a startling end for the Dickinson County Greens American Legion team as they were disqualified from the Zone Five Upper Peninsula championships after winning their first three games. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team won two games on Friday, and the Escanaba Cubs lost a down-to-the-wire battle with the Bark River Bucs, as the second day of the Upper Peninsula Zone Five Tournament was held in Delta County. Click the above headline for details, and see photos and videos and other scores.
The Dickinson County Greens American Legion Baseball team rallied from q 3-0 deficit to beat the Gladstone Indians, 6-5, in the first game of the Upper Peninsula Zone Five tournament on Thursday. Click the above headline to read details.
Grant LaMarche threw a complete-game one-hitter, striking out 13 batters as the Escanaba Cubs upset the Marquette Blues, 1-0, in the first game of the American Legion Zone Five Tournament on Thursday in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
