The Bark River Bucs American Legion Baseball team opened the Upper Peninsula Zone Five tournament with a 17-3 win over the Negaunee Diamonds Thursday night in Escanaba. The Bucs scored ten runs in the first inning and cruised to the win on the five-inning mercy rule. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Star (age 9-10) softball team lost their state quarterfinal match-up on Monday, dropping a pitcher's duel with St. Clair, 2-0, in Rochester Hills. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba Major Little League All-Star (age 11-12) baseball team finished its state tournament run with a 11-1 win over Kalamazoo South Portage Monday at University Liggett High School. Brody Ison struck out eleven of the twelve outs that were recorded in the mercey-shortened game. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The Escanaba Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) fell behind early and had their comeback fall short in the final inning on Sunday, losing to Muskegon Roosevelt Park, 5-4, in the state tournament at University Liggett High School in Grosse Pointe. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Star (age 9-10) softball team won two games Sunday at the state tournament in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, beating Three Rivers in the morning, 8-4, and then topping Big Rapids, 19-1, in the evening. The girls advance to the state quarterffnals. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba Minor League All-Star softball team (age 9-10) fell behind 4-0 in the first inning and couldn't mount a comeback, losing to Bullock Creek Southtown out of the Midland area, 6-0, at the state tournament Saturday in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, videos.
A last-minute comeback attempt came up short for the Escanaba Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) at the state tournament in Grosse Pointe on Saturday. Bay City Southwest built a 5-0 lead and went on for a 5-2 win on the artificial turf at University Liggett High School. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlighs.
ESCANABA 9-10 girls game delayed by three hours due to continued rain in Rochester Hills. Game now set for 1:30. Listen on FM-93.5 and AM-600 and RRNsports.com. Then we will hustle over to Grosse Pointe for our ESCANABA 11-12 boys game at 5:00. Same radio station.The 9-10 Minor Little League softball state tournament started Friday morning in Rochester Hills. But before the first batch of pool play games could get out of the fourth inning, heavy rain moved into the area.
The Escanaba Cubs had the lead all night long Wednesday night, but had the game literally slip away when rain started pouring down in the bottom of seventh inning as the Marquette Blues took advantage for a 5-4 win at Haley Field. Click the above headline for details, post-game interviews, and photos taken by Sheila Olsen.
The Marquette Blues took advantage of ten walks, five errors, and three hit-battsmen to roll past the Dickinson County Greens, 10-0, Tuesday night in Marquette. Justin Wenk threw a two-hitter. Click the above headline to read details and to see photos.
The Escanaba Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) won a district championship Monday night after beating Kingsford, 1-0 and 7-1, to advance to the state tournament in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Dickinson County Greens American Legion Baseball team raced to an 8-0 lead and rolled past the Gladstone Indians 12-5 Sunday night in Gladstone. Blake Julian drove in six runs and Caleb Johnson was in control on the mound for the Iron Mountain-Based team, which used to be called the Golds. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
Zahn Anderson's RBI single in the bottom of the sixth inning helped the Escanaba Major Boys (age 11-12) Little League All-Stars rally past Norway, 6-5, on Sunday. Click the above headline to read detaiils, photos, video highlights.
The Kingsford and Norway Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) earned victories over their Delta County rivals in tournament action on Saturday, while the Gladstone Minor Boys (age 9-10) rallied from 12 runs down in the final two innings to stay alive in their tournament. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos.
The Eastern Upper Peninsula Wood Ducks scored seven runs in the final inning Friday to rally past Iron Mountain, 10-6, at Liuna Field in Iron Mountain. The Greens played without nine of their 18 players due to a variety of other commitments. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba Minor girls softball team (age 9-10) won a district championship, beating Norway, 17-0, Thursday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
Noah Lancour smacked a pair of two-run homers Monday night to lead the Escanaba Cubs to a 8-5 win over the Gladstone Indians at Don Olsen Field. Lancour, better known by his nickname "Opie" from Andy Griffith fame, had only one home run before Monday, and that was in a Bay College scrimmage game. Click the above headline for photos, videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Escanaba Cubs and Bark River Bucs American Legion baseball teams waited out a 1 hour, 44 minute rain delay Monday before the Bucs took advantage of Cubs mistakes to post a 9-1 victory at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Iron Moumtain American Legion Baseball team picked up two more wins on Friday, beating the Bark River Bucs, 10-2, and then topping a shorthanded Escanaba team, 7-0, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headlime for details, photos, video clips.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion Baseball team got timely hitting and beat the Escanaba Cubs, 5-3, Thursday night at Don Olsen Field. Johnny Soderman hit his first-ever home run as part of the Indians win. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Marinette Firecracker American Legion Baseball Tournament was cancelled again on Sunday after all-night rains Saturday night flooded the fields that were already saturated from Saturday morning and afternoon rains. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team literally mucked it up on Saturday as they played the Manitowoc Legion team in the Marinette Firecracker Tournament. In a 3-hour-12 minute marathon that included time outs to dry the mound and plate, the Indians held on for a 15-12 win. Click the above headline to read details.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion baseball team scored four runs in the final two innings to beat Marinette, 6-2, late Friday night, in the first game of the Marinette Firecracker Tournament in Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion Baseball team had the lead for most of the game Friday as the Firecracker Tournament began with a game against Watertown, Wis. But the Wisconsin boys put together a pair of four-run innings at the end to snatch away a 9-5 win at Pederson Ballpark. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team opened the Marinette Firecracker Tournament on Friday with an impressive 7-3 win over the Green Bay Preble Shockers. The Blues had lost to the Shockers at the Escanaba tournament last week. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion Baseball team won its first game of the season Tuesday night with a 5-2 win over the Marquette Blues at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details, interviews, and photos taken by Diane LaChance.
Andrew Paupore threw a complete-game six-hitter as the Iron Mountain American Legion baseball team beat Marinette, Wis., 3-1 on Sunday to win the annual Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The nine-team Gregg Johnson Memorial American Legion Baseball Tournament is down to its final four teams heading into Sunday's action, with two Upper Peninsula teams joining two Wisconsin teams in the semifinals. Click the above headline to see photos, videos.
The Eastern Upper Peninsula Wood Ducks American Legion Baseball team won twice at the Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament on Friday in Delta County. The Wood Ducks beat the Copper Country Flames, 9-5, and then turned back the host Escanaba Cubs, 7-1. Click the above headline for photos and videos from both games.
The Manistique State Savings Bank Under-14 (Bantam B) hockey team won a state championship on Sunday, turning back the Gladwin Gladiators, 5-3, in Cadillac. And Marquette teams brought home two state championships. Click the above headline for details.
