The Grosse Pointe Woods-Shores Major Boys (age 11-12) baseball team rallied for an amazing 5-4 victory over Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, at the Little League World Series Friday in Williamsport. Click the above headline to read details. (Little League photo)
Northern Michigan University's football team held its first practice in full pads on Tuesday as preparations for the 2018 season gets into high gear. The Wildcats are looking to improve upon last year's 1-9 record. Click the above headline for details.
The Grosse-Pointe Woods Shores Little League (age 11-12) won the Great Lakes Regional Championship Saturday night, 13-0, over New Albany, Ind., in suburban Indianapolis. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and video clips.
The Escanaba High School football team is back on the practice field this week as the Eskymos try to follow one of the most successful seasons in school history. The Eskymos made it to the Division Three state semifinals last year before losing to Grand Rapids Catholic Central. Click the above headline to hear more from the 2018 team.
Northern Michigan University Athletics has announced that all game day programs will now be available online and free of charge. NMU says the initiative reduces the department's environmental impact. Click the above headline for details.
The Little League Baseball and Softball All-Star tournaments have wrapped across Michigan. Click the above headline for scores.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team won its second straight Class A state championship on Sunday, beating the Menominee Red Wave, 11-4, at Spies Field. It was the second straight summer that the Indians beat the Red Wave from the loser's bracket. Click the above headline for interviews, photos, videos taken by Cole Hansen.
Bark River’s Tom Lindquist grabbed the lead on lap nine and survived a stiff challenge from Gregg Haese from Francis Creek in the final laps to win the super late model feature at Norway Speedway Friday night. Click the above headline for details. (Norway photo)
Concussions are down, according to data compiled by the Michigan High School Athletic Association during its third year of collecting head injury reports from member high schools. Click the above headline to read more details from the study.
Bay College Softball Coach Heidi Charon has announced the hiring of three assistant coaches that will round out the staff for the inaugural season. Lesley Delvaux, Brianna Grimm, and Ross Rahoi will help lead the Norse. Click the above headline for details.
Bay College Director of Athletics Matt Johnson announced Rob Robinson has been named the second Head Women's Basketball Coach in school's history. Robinson brings 24 years of collegiate coaching experience to Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Indians won two games at the state tournament in Menominee on Saturday, beating Gaylord, 6-4, then topping Menominee, 9-7, to force a winner-take-all championship game on Sunday. Click the above headline for details, photos and videos taken by Cole Hansen, and listen to interviews and a replay fo Gladstone's big rally.
The American Legion Baseball season came to an end on Friday for the Bark River Bucs as they dropped a 1-0 decision to Hudson at the Class A state tournament in Menominee. Click the above headline for details, photos, and post-game comments.
The Menominee Red Wave American Legion baseball team rallied from five runs down to beat the Gladstone Indians, 9-7, in a wild state tournament game Friday night in Menominee. Click the above headline for photos, videos taken by Cole Hansen.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team beat two downstate squads on Thursday at the state tournament in Menominee. Gladstone beat Trenton, 10-0, then topped Hudson, 5-3, in eight innings. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Bark River Bucs American Legion Baseball team gave up three unearned runs and lost to Gaylord, 4-1, in the state tournament opener at Spies Field in Menominee. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Star softball team (age 9-10) had its state tournament run come to an end on Wednesday, losing in the championship game to Georgetown, 10-0. It was a one-run game in the fourth inning before the downstate team took over. Click the above headline to see photos and videos taken by Missy Reinhart.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Star (age 9-10) softball team erased an early 3-1 deficit and beat Grosse Pointe, 6-4, in the state semifinals Tuesday in downstate Jackson. Madison Mott struck out 15 batters in a complete-game effort, and she drove in two runs with a triple. Click the above headline for photos and videos taken by Missy Reinhart.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association says that more students are participating in more than one sport at their respective schools. Marquette and Gladstone led the way last year with 82.6 and 83.8 percent of their athletes playing more than one sport, respectively. Click the above headline for more details.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Stars (age 9-10) scored two runs in each of the final two innings to beat Bay County, 6-5, in the state tournament quarterfinals Monday in Jackson. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
Local racing legend Bob Iverson has died. The 77-year-old Escanaba native raced on tracks throughout the Midwest and had numerous track championships over the years in Escanaba, Norway, and Sault Ste. Marie, Canada. Click the above headline to read more.
A great tournament run came up a run short for the U.P. 906 Fastpitch 14u softball team Sunday night at the Northern Nationals in Eden Prairie, Minn. The Escanaba-based team lost in nine innings, 10-9, to the Minnesota Magic. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Indians repeated as American Legion Zone Five champions on Sunday with a 6-3 win over the Bark River Bucs at Don Olsen Field. Both teams, however, qualify for the state tournament next week in Menominee. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Stars (age 9-10) ran into a hot-hitting Georgetown team on Sunday as the state tournament continued in Jackson, falling 19-2. But Escanaba still advances to the quarterfinals. Click the above headline for details, photos.
Jared Crow pitched a complete game one-hitter on Saturday to lead the Gladstone Indians to a 4-0 win over the Marquette Blues at the U.P. Zone Five Tournament in Escanaba. Cody Frappier went 4-for-4 at the plate. The Indians advanced to the U.P. championship game, and clinched a spot in next week's state tournament. Click the above headline for details, videos, and photos taken by Brenda Crow.
On a night when Norway Speedway inducted the six new members into the track’s Hall of Fame Friday, Dan Lindsley picked up a big win. Click the above headline to read details.
Zach Englund threw 5 2/3 innings of no-hit ball and his older brother Duane got things started with a solo home run as the Bark River Bucs beat the Gladstone Indians, 4-1, at the U.P. Zone Tournament Friday in Gladstone. Later, Duane Englund threw 6 2/3 innings as the Bucs beat Menominee, 7-6. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Gladstone Indians bounced back from an afternoon loss to Bark River with a nighttime 8-1 win over the Copper Country Flames to keep their state title defense alive. Tyson Seymour pitched a complete game, sending the Indians into Saturday's U.P. semifinal against Marquette. Click the above headline for details, photos taken by Brenda Crow.
The Upper Peninsula Zone Five American Legion Baseball tournament got under way on Thursday with lots of rain dampening the action in Delta County. Two games were played in Escanaba, but two in Gladstone were not. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos from the Escanaba win over Negaunee, and Marquette's win over Sault.
Cameron Varda threw 4 2/3 innings of no-hit baseball and Owen Baij drove in three runs as the Norway Minor Little League (age 9-10) All-Stars won the district championship Tuesday night, 12-2, over Escanaba, at Marion Park. Click the above headline to read game details, and to see photos, videos taken by Anna Boutilier.