The Iron Mountain High School football team faced its toughest test of the season Thursday night, and the Mountaineers passed the test with flying colors. Iron Mountain raced to a 21-0 lead over the Negaunee Miners and cruised to a 35-14 win in the season finale at Mountaineer Stadium. Click the above headline for details. (Iron Mountain Public Schools photo)
The Northern Michigan women's basketball team will be retiring Lisa Jamula Maki's #40 jersey, its first jersey retirement in program history, on Sunday, November 3 at 4 p.m. in an exhibition against Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Click the above headline for details.
Jaxon Buckley scored four goals and Jett Buckley scored twice as the Kingsford High School soccer team swarmed the Montague Wildcats, 6-0, in the MHSAA regional semifinals Tuesday at Gaylord High School. Click the above headline for details. (Breitung Twp Schools photos)
THe Marquette Sentinels soccer team had its season come to an end Tuesday night with a 402 loss to Fruitport in the MHSAA regional semifinals at Gaylord High School. Click the above headline for details. (Mary Sysko/MSHS photos)
Brandon McMannus kicked a 45-yard field goal as time expired, and Josh Jacobs caught his first-ever receiving touchdown, as the Green Bay Packers beat the Houston Texans, 24-22, Sunday, at Lambeau Field. Click the above headline to see the coverage from RRN Sports.
The Marquette Sentinels boys varsity soccer team hosted the Petoskey Northman for the district championship at the Kaufman Sports Complex Saturday in Marquette. The Sentinels dominated rom start-to-finish, winning, 6-0. Click the abpve headline for details. (Mary Sysko photo)
The Northern Michigan football team had a chance to earn its first victory of the season on Saturday afternoon, but an overtime fumble proved costly as the Wildcats fell to Roosevelt 16-10. Click the above headline for details, and RRN highlights.
Fourth-ranked and GLIAC preseason favorite Ferris State used a 20-point first quarter and a 21-point second half to overwhelm Michigan Tech 51-13 at Top Taggart Field on Saturday. Click the above headine for details. (Michigan Tech Athletics photo, story)
The Gladstone High School football team missed out on multiple chances in the red zone Friday night, and lost to the Calumet Copper Kings, 19-6, at the Marble Athletic Field. Ben Anderson scored two touchdowns and rushed for 173 yards as Calumet stayed alive in the playoff race. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Michigan Tech University men's cross country team won the championship of the Bay College Invitational in Delta County on Friday, while the Northern Michigan University women finished on top. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Stephenson Eagles rolled up more than 500 yards of offense and dominated in the trenches on both sides of the ball, beating the Rapid River Rockets, 52-12, Thursday night on Rockets Senior Night in Rapid River. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Delta College (Saginaw) 3, Bay College 0 (25-20, 25-16, 25-21). Final home match of the season for the Norse. Menominee's Piper Monroe led Bay with ten kills. On defense, Norse libero Jade Jasenovsky led the way with 33 digs. The Norse travel to Ironwood to face Gogebic Community College Saturday afternoon, and then play their final three MCCAA matches on the road next week in Lower Michigan.
A sellout crowd of more than 11,000 people packed into the Superior Dome on Sunday to watch the Northern Michigan University men's basketball team play the Michigan State Spartans in a exhibition game. MSU Coach Tom Izzo, an Iron Mountain native and NMU graduate, had his jersey retired as his Spartan team won, 70-53. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University football team was downstate Saturday night to take on the nation's number two team, Grand Valley State. The Wildcats fell to the Lakers, 49-17. Click the above headline for details from both schools. (Grand Valley State photo)
The Michigan Tech football team saw its four-game unbeaten streak end in a back-and-forth battle ultimately seeing Davenport prevail 24-20 at Kearly Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Gladstone High School football team got off to a strong start Friday night in Houghton against the Gremlins, but things quickly from there as Houghton enjoyed a 42-17 win over the Braves on Parent's Night at Alumni Field. Click the above headline for details.
Matthew Romer and the Northern Michigan University hockey Wildcats forced overtime and earned a standings point late Friday night, before ultimately falling, 4-3, to 12th-ranked Colorado College. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Northern Michigan volleyball team picked up a big win on Thursday night, tying a season-high with 13 aces to help secure a four-set victory over rival Michigan Tech at Vandament Arena, 22-25, 25-23, 25-17, and 25-15. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls volleyball team picked up a non-conference win Tuesday night, beating the injury-plagued Bark River-Harris Broncos, 3-0. The scores were 25-13, 25-16, and 25-20. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews, and U.P. scores.
The Bay College Norse Cross Country Teams participated in the Firebird Invitational over the weekend. The Norse Women set program history by winning a meet for the first time, while the Norse Men had a strong showing, finishing third. Click the above headline for details.
Bay College Athletic Director Matt Johnson has announced the hiring of James Fassett as the next Head Women's Basketball Coach for the Bay College Norse. Fassett boasts more the 20 years in women's basketball coaching experience. Click the above headline for details.
Tanner Theuerkauf threw two touchdwn passes and ran in two more scores as the top-ranked Menominee Maroons stayed undefeated with a 49-7 win over the Gladstone Braves on Braves Homecoming Friday night. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan football team fell to Saginaw Valley State on Saturday afternoon to begin conference play, 63-14. Click the above headline for details from both schools. Photos are courtesy of NMU and Saginaw Valley Athletics.
The Bay College Norse volleyball team won a marathon match on Saturday, beating Bryant & Stratton College, 3-2. The scores were 25-22, 26-28, 25-20, 17-25, 15-13. Piper Monroe led Bay with 19 kills. Rylee Hansen added 12 kills and Olyvia Saxton chipped in ten. Defensively, Jade Jasenovsky led the way with 29 digs and Riley Moore added 20 digs. Bay College improved to 5-13 on the season. The Norse will be on the road again on Tuesday against Montcalm College in Lower Michigan.
The Michigan Tech hockey team defeated Northern Michigan 4-3 Friday in exhibition action at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena. Click the above headline for stories from both universities. Photos courtesy of NMU Sports Information and Michigan Tech Athletics.
Senior outside hitter Jacqueline Smith set a program record that stood for over 30 years, becoming the Northern Michigan volleyball all-time kills leader in a 3-1 victory over the Lake Superior State Lakers on Saturday evening. Click the above headline for details.
The Ishpeming Hematites are your MHSAA Division Two Upper Peninsula girls tennis champions after sneaking past West Iron County and Norway to take the title on Wednesday. Ishpeming had 13 points, West Iron 12, and Norway ten. The Hematites took championships in three of the four doubles flights. Click the above headline for details. (IHS photo)
The Negaunee Miners won their third straight MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula girls tennis championship on Wednesday, taking six of the eight flights in Escanaba and Gladstone. Westwood was runners up. Click the above headline for the details.
The Bay College Norse volleyball team outlasted the Alpena Community College Lumberjacks, 3-2, in a MCCAA match Tuesday night in Escanaba. The scores were 25-17, 17-25, 25-16, 22-25, 15-9. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Westwood Patriots football team beat the Gladstone Braves, 42-15, Friday night, in a game featuring two teams with short benches caused by injuries. Westwood got two touchdowns and a pair of two-point conversions from Karter Scherer, and the Patriots offense forced four second half turnovers. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
