The Bay College Norse women's basketball team picked up a much-needed victory on the road Wednesday night, keeping their playoff hopes alive with a 56-26 win over the North Central Michigan Timberwolves at the Petoskey Plastics Arena. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team scored four goals in the third period late Tuesday night to pull away from the DePere Voyageurs, 6-2, at the DePere Ice Arena. Five different Eskymos scored goals, with freshman Nolan Bink adding four assists to go along with his goal. Click the above headline for details, photos, and videos.
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team had five players score in double figures, including an emotional Lukas Weaver, as they held off a tough Marinette Marines team, 79-73, Monday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team picked up one of the biggest wins in its six-year history on Saturday, beating the Mid-Michigan Lakers on the road, 96-86, to take sole possession of the MCCAA North Division lead. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team defeated Lake Superior State in game four of the Cappo Cup series by a score of 3-1, and the trophy returned to Marquette. NMU went 3-1 in the season series, outsourcing LSSU, 14-9. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team ran into a buzzsaw on Saturday as they took on the first-place Mid Michigan College Lakers in a MCCAA contest. The Norse fell behind early and wound up losing, 87-42. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
Blake Pietila earned his fourth straight Friday night shutout as No. 12 Michigan Tech defeated Bemidji State 2-0 Friday at the Sanford Center. Blake pushed his single-season school record mark to eight shutouts and his career record to 18. Click the above headline for details.
The NMU men's basketball team returned to its winning ways on Thursday in the Berry Events Center, defeating the Cardinals of Saginaw Valley State 81-64. Click the above headline for details, and to listen to post-game interviews with players and coaches.
The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team battled it out against the Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals, falling by a slim 46-43 margin at the Berry Events Center on Thursday. Click the above headline for details, and listen to interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team slipped past the Kirtland Community College Firebirds, 75-62, Wednesday night, setting up a mid-season showdown between two undefeated teams this Saturday downstate. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College women's basketball team had to grind one out Wednesday night, as the Norse turned back the Kirtland Community College Firebirds, 46-38, on a special night at the Bay College Gym. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The effort to help the Escanaba Eskymos and the Weaver family continued in gyms across the Upper Peninsula Tuesday night. The proceeds of these fundraisers will help to support the Weaver kids (Noah, Lukas, and Sophie), as they deal with the tragic loss of their parents in a traffic crash. Click the above headline for details, photos, and videos.
The Munising High School boys basketball team owned the paint Tuesday night, beating the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 78-43, in Bark River. The Mustangs had four players score in double figures, led by Cully Trzeciak's 20 points. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
It was an Orange and Black night in gyms around much of northern Michigan Monday night as teams near and far showed support for the Escanaba Eskymos in the wake of last Friday's traffic crash that claimed the lives of Tara and Jerry Weaver. Click the above headline for details.
The Iron Mountain High School boys basketball team bounced back from last week's loss to Westwood by beating the North Central Jets, 64-58, Monday night in Iron Mountain. Click the thumbnails to see photos and videos, and to hear post-game interviews.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team hosted a quad meet Monday night inside the “other” half of the program's co-op: North Central High School. The match was moved from the original site, Menominee, which has not had any classes or sporting events in its school all year long due to mold damage. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
Escanaba High School Athletic Director Dave Wilson announced Monday that all Eskymo sporting events will be cancelled through Friday as the Eskymo community grieves the loss of Tara and Jerry Weaver. Click the above headline for a list of rescheduled dates.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team played perhaps its most intense game of the season on Saturday, and found a way to survive against the Delta College Pioneers, 100-90, on the road in University Center near Saginaw. Click the above headline for detais.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team turned in a strong third place showing out of 40 teams at the Northern Michigan Championships in Gaylord on Saturday. The Braves were among nine Upper Peninsula teams that joined 31 downstate teams at the all-day event. CLick the above headline for details, and photos taken by Christe Terrien.
The Bay College women's basketball team fell behind early and could not recover, losing to the Delta College Pioneers, 91-55, Saturday afternoon in the town of University Center near Saginaw. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Michigan Tech swept rival Northern Michigan in a weekend hockey series with a 4-1 win Saturday at the Berry Events Center. This follows Tech's 3-0 win over NMU in Friday's game. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Northern Michigan University basketball teams had a rough day in Big Rapids on Saturday, with both the men's and women's teams losing to Ferris State. Click the above headline to read details, and to listen to player and coach inetrviews.
The Northern Michigan University men's hockey team dropped game one against the Michigan Tech Huskies Friday night in Houghton by a score of 3-0. The two teams will have a rematch Saturday night in Marquette. Click the above headline for details. (MTU Photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team turned in a cold performance and fell victim to a hot goaltender Thursday night, and it added up to a 5-2 loss to the Freeland-Saginaw FNV Griffins at the Bay County Civic Arena. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team improved to 12-7 on the season Thursday with a 50-34 win over Lake Superior State in Sault Ste. Marie. Click the above headline for details, and to listen to interviews.
An otherwise ho-hum game for the Bay College Norse men's basketball team turned into a milestone victory for the program Wednesday night as the Norse cruised past the Alpena Community College Lumberjacks, 86-50, in Alpena. Click the above headline for details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team played a great first half and led the Alpena Community College Lumberjacks by as many as eleven points, but could not hang on, losing for the eighth time this season by single digits, 60-53, in Alpena. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and videos from the game.
Caden Luoma scored 18 points to lead the Ishpeming Hematites to a 55-46 win over the Gladstone Braves Tuesday night in Gladstone. The Hematites held the Braves to just 16 points in the first half, and then withstood a Gladstone comeback attempt in the fourth quarter. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
Lamar Grayson has been named MCCAA Northern Conference Player of the Week for his performance in the week of January 16 through January 22. Click the above headline for details.
The Norway High School boys basketball team picked up their second lopsided win over the Bark River-Harris Broncos Monday night, posting a 70-39 win in Bark River. This follows a 63-22 Knights win ten days prior. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
