Perhaps the biggest football event ever held in Green Bay was held Thursday at Lambeau Field as the National Football League put on its annual Players Draft. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell estimated that 125,000 people jammed into the Lambeau area, a number that is more than the entire normal population of Green Bay. Click the above headline for details.
High school game officials with 20 or more years of service will be honored at the Officials Awards & Alumni Banquet on April 26. A total of 706 officials will be praised for reaching their milestones, 47 of them from the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline for details.
Gladstone High School senior and U.P. Dream Team lineman Aaron Hughes will be playing football for Northern Michigan University, after making a long deliberation about going into the Air Force like his brothers did. Click the above headline to hear his story.
Escanaba High School senior wide receiver Javon Stevenson has signed his National Letter of Intent to play football at Northern Michigan University. Stevenson was joined by his family at a signing event on National Signing Day Wednesday. Click the above headline for detaiils.
The Crystal Falls Forest Park Trojans won the school's fifth football state championship on Saturday, beating the Morrice Orioles, 42-20, at the Suerior Dome. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. (MHSAA Photo)
The Kingsford Greens captured the American Legion Baseball Class A state championship on Sunday, beating Stevensville-Lakeshore on their own field, 8-4, in a winner-take-all contest. The Greens had lost to that team in a testy game earlier in the tournament, but picked up a 5-2 win on Saturday to force this Sunday baseball. This group of ten kids from Kingsford and Norway combined to form this team, after both high school squads had successful seasons. And now, they share a state championship trophy together.
The baseball season came to a premature end for the Post 44 Blues on Saturday as they lost to the Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario) Black Sox, 7-2, in the Michigan Veterans Baseball state tournament in Gaylord. The Blues opened the tournament with two wins, but were battered by Gaylord Friday night and then got off to a slow start Saturday that spelled the end of a successful summer of baseball for the organization.
The Escanaba Cubs first appearance in the American Legion Class AA state tournament in more than a decade came to an end on Friday with a 5-2 loss to Adrian Post 285 at Northwood University in Midland. The Cubs finished the tournament with a 1-2 record, and closed a successful summer season with a 17-9-2 record.
The Kingsford Greens American Legion Baseball team opened Class A state tournament play on Thursday with a 9-5 victory over the Three Oaks Oakers in the far southwest Lower Michigan town of Stevensville. The Greens scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 5-5 tie in a game played under sweltering 90-degree heat that was amplified by the artificial turf on the field.
The American Legion Baseball Class Double A state tournament got under way on Thursday under scorching heat at Northwood University in Midland. The Escanaba Cubs beat Big Rapids, 14-2, in their first game, but suffered a power outage in the second game, losing 5-0 to Bay City.
The dream continues for the Negaunee Major Little League All-Star (age 10-12) baseball team. And the boys don't want to wake up any time soon. Negaunee won the first state Major Baseball championship in program history Wednesday night, beating Plymouth-Canton, 10-5, under the lights at Saginaw South Little League. The win sends Negaunee into the Great Lakeas Regional Tournament next month in Indiana, just one step away from a trip to Williamsport.
The Negaunee Major Little League All-Stars (age 10-12) are now one win away from a state championship. The boys battled Southern Grand Rapids in the state semifinals under the lights Tuesday night in Saginaw and pulled out a 1-0 win to advance to Wednesday's championship game.
The Negaunee Major Little League All-Stars (age 10-12) cruised past Mattawan in the state quarterfinals Monday night, 10-5, under the lights at South Saginaw Little League. Negaunee took advantage of early Mattawan mistakes to take a 5-0 lead and constantly built to that lead throughout the game, holding off several comeback attempts by the District 15 champions. And Negaunee advances to the state semifinals, set for Tuesday night at 7:00, against Southern Grand Rapids.
The Negaunee Major Little League All-Stars (age 10-12) finished pool play undefeated on Sunday with a 10-3 win over Ira Township at the Michigan State Tournament in Saginaw. With both teams already assured of a spot in the state quarterfinals, each used three different pitchers and used it as a tune-up game.
The tournament trail came to an end on Sunday for the Gladstone Major Little League All-Star baseball team. Gladstone rallied from a 6-1 deficit to tie the game against Taylor North, but lost on a three-run homer by Taylor's Brexton Runyon, 9-6, in the state tournament pool play finale at South Saginaw Little League. Gladstone ends up finishing 0-3 at the state tournament despite scoring 24 runs in those three games. That's normally enough to win games at this level, but Gladstone lost because it gave up 36 runs in those three games.
Bay College Head Softball Coach John Garris has passed away. The college made the announcement on Saturday, saying only that he died "suddenly".
Five Delta County graduating high school softball players played their final high school game on Tuesday in the Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association's All-Star games at Davenport University.
The Escanaba High School softball team had its season come to an end Thursday in the state semifinals, as the Richmond Blue Devils scored two unearned runs to beat the Eskymos, 2-0, at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details.
In a one-run high school softball game between the two top teams in the State of Michigan, little things mean a lot. The top-ranked Clare Pioneers did just enough to beat the second-ranked Gladstone Braves, 1-0, in a MHSAA Division Three quarterfinal Tuesday evening at Cheboygan High School. Click the above headline for details, radio replay.
The Escanaba High School softball team outlasted a strong Hudsonville Unity Christian team on Tuesday to win a splendid state quarterfinal game, 3-0, in eight innings, to earn a spot in te state semifinals. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The 78th annual Michigan-Wisconsin Open Tennis Tournament got underway Saturday in Escanaba's Ludington Park. The singles competition was held in several divisions. In the Class A men's competition, Juan Guerra won the title in straight sets (6-3, 6-4), and in Class B, Escanaba native Chris Ogren defeated Aaron Isenhart of Elk Rapids in three sets, taking the third set, 6-4. The competition continues on Sunday with doubles matches, both in Ludington Park and at the Abrahamson Courts.
The 77th annual Michigan-Wisconsin tennis tournament is in the books. Dozens of players of all ages converged on Escanaba to play in both singles and doubles competition. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee High School boys tennis team took home another Upper Peninsula Division One championship on Wednesday. It's the tenth time in 13 years that the Miners have won the title. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MHSAA. (MSHS Photo)
The Escanaba Eskymos boys tennis team won three of the four doubles matches, and posted a 5-3 win over the Marquette Sentinels Monday afternoon in Escanaba. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos from several of the matches.
The Negaunee Miners won seven flights and cruised to the championship of the Kingsford boys tennis invitational on Saturday. Escanaba finished second, winning one flight and getting three second-place finishes. Click the above headline for details.
NFL Pre-Season Football. Detroit Lions vs Miami Dolphins. From Ford Field in Detroit.. Kick-off is 1:00 ET. Coverage begins at Noon ET. On WCMM-FM (102.5 Escanaba), WJPD-FM (92.3 Marquette), and WIMK-FM (93.1 Iron Mountain)
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NFL Pre-Season Foorball. Green Bay Packers vs Indianapolis Colts. From Lucas Oil Stadum in Indianapolis. Kick-off in 1:00 ET/12:00 CT. Coverage begins at 11:00 ET/10:00 CT. On WGLQ-FM (97.1) Escanaba/Iron Mountain/Manistqiue) and WUPZ-FM (94.9 Marquette/Munising)
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High School Football. Kingsford Flivvers vs Escanaba Eskymos. From the Escanaba Athletic Field. Kickoff is 7:00 ET/6:00 CT. Coverage begins at 6:45 ET/5:45 CT. On WZNL-FM (94.3 The Breeze), and on-line at https://streamdb8web.securenetsystems.net/cirruscontent/WZNL
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