The high school boys baseball and girls softball seasons are two weeks away from playoff time, and there were a bunch of regular season games Wednesday around the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline for the scores and details from Gladstone-Negaunee baseball.
The Escanaba High School softball team used strong pitching and defense to beat the Gladstone Braves, 6-0, Tuesday night, at Lemmerand Park. Grayson LaMarche and McKayla Mott combined to throw a one-hitter. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos clinched a share of the Great Northern Conference title with a 10-5 win over the Kingsford Flivvers Tuesday night in Quinnesec. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves scored 11 runs in the first two innings to beat Menominee Maroons, 15-5, Tuesday night in high school baseball at Don Olsen Field. Gavin Frossard drove in three runs, Braden Sundquist scored four times, Tyler Darmogray had two hits and Cam Kelly scored three runs. The Braves (12-4-1) travel to Negaunee for a doubleheader on Wednesday.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Gladstone Braves played a lot of softball Saturday and Sunday at the Michigan Softball Challenge in suburban Detroit, which included 40 teams from across the state. Click the above headline to see how the teams did down there.
The Escanaba High School boys tennis team won seven of the eight flights to win the Kingsford Invitational on Saturday. The Eskymos finished with 46 points. Negaunee was second with 34. Click the above headline for more details.
Cam Kelly had four hits, including two triples and a grand slam home run, to help the Gladstone High School baseball team rally past the Menominee Maroons, 16-5, in a Great Northern Conference game on Saturday in Menominee. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos scored three runs in the fifth inning and four more in the sixth to pull away from the Manistique Emeralds, 10-3, Friday night at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
Mother Nature did not cooperate with most high school sporting events Thursday night as heavy rains rolled through the Upper Peninsula. Some games managed to start, but most did not finish. Click the above headline for details, and Esky-Menominee photos, videos.
The Superior Central High School baseball team picked up a rare win over the Gladstone Braves Wednesday night, hanging on for a 7-5 win under the lights at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline to read details, hear interviews, and see photos, videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Bay College Norse softball team had its season come to an end Monday with a 3-1 loss to the Dawson College (Mont.) Lady Bucs in the NJCAA Regional semifinals in Montana. Click the above headline to read details, see videos, and hear comments from Coach Ross Rahoi.
The Norway High School baseball team took both ends of a doubleheader from the North Central Jets, 5-0 and 10-0, Monday evening at Marion Park. The Knights' pitchers allowed only one total base hit in the twinbill. Click the above headline for details.
Scott Hiller had three hits and drove in six runs as the Escanaba Eskymos pounded the Menominee Maroons, 21-1, Monday at Spies Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse softball team opened NJCAA Region 13 play on Sunday with a pair of high-scoring games, losing to Miles City (Mont.) Community College, 18-12, before bouncing back to hold off Dakota County (Minn.) Technical College, 11-7, in an elimination game. Click the above headline for all of the details.
The Escanaba High School softball team is on a roll after having multiple games cancelled due to the weather. The Eskymos hosted their annual tournament this weekend and won all three games over Gladstone, Millington, and Marquette by a combined score of 31-3. Click the above headline to read details. (Esky High School softball photos)
The Bay College Norse baseball team closed its 2022 season Saturday with a pair of losses to Dakota County (Minn.) Technical College, 8-3 and 11-0, at the Wells Sports Complex. Bay ends its season with a 7-28 record, and DCTC moves on to the regional tournament. Click the above headline for details, and photos and videos taken by Brad Landis
The Escanaba High School baseball team avenged its earlier loss to the Gladstone Braves by sweeping a doubleheader Friday night in Gladstone, 6-1 and 6-2. The Escanaba pitching aces, Hunter Lancour and Jared Hanson, both shut down the Braves and Bon LaChance continued his heavy hitting at the plate. Click the above headline for details.
The Dakota County Technical College Blue Knights won the NJCAA Region 13 East Sub-regional championship on Friday, beating the Bay College Norse, 20-10, to take the Best-of-Seven series, four games to one. Click the above headline for all of the details.
The Bay College Norse softball team won the NJCAA Sub-Regional championship on Wednesday, beating the Dakota County Technical College Blue Knights, 9-1. It was much less dramatic than the ten inning nailbiter on Tuesday. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse softball team rallied to beat the Dakota County Technical College Blue Knights, 6-5, in ten innings, Tuesday in the NJCAA subregional tournament in Escanaba. The win sends the Norse to the regional tournament in Montana this weekend. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Gladstone Braves baseball team stretched its winning streak to eight games on Monday, sweeping a doubleheader from the Kingsford Flivvers, 5-0 and 16-2, in Quinnesec. Click the above headline to read game details.
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestler Benji Peak topped the podium at the Senior Open this weekend in Las Vegas. The NMU squad had five other athletes make podium finishes as well. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College baseball team bounced back from Friday night's disappointing loss to sweep both ends of a doubleheader from the Minnesota Post Grad club team, 10-5 and 7-6, Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline to see photos, videos taken by Brad Landis.
Escanaba senior pitcher Jared Hanson was in complete control on Saturday as the Eskymos hosted the North Central Jets at Al Ness Field. Hanson threw a complete-game no-hitter as Escanaba posted a 7-0 victory. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team split a doubleheader with the Minnesota Post Grad club baseball team on Friday, winning the opener, 21-0, before losing a late lead in the second game to lose, 9-5. Click the above headline for photos, videos taken by Brad Landis.
Keith Judici pitched a complete-game three-hitter as the Negaunee Miners won their first baseball game of the season, 3-1, Thursday, in Escanaba. The Eskymos bounced back to win the nightcap, 11-2. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos threw seven pitchers one inning apiece and Bon LaChance drove in four runs in a 6-2 win over the Kingsford Flivvers Wednesday night. LaChance had a single, double, and home run to pace the offensive attack. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse and Milwaukee Area Technical College Stormers braved 36-degree weather, complete with a snow squall and bone-numbing winds, to play two softball games on Monday. The Norse won both games, 5-4 and 17-4, to avenge two earlier losses to MATC. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos taken by Brad Landis.
After playing their first 36 games on the road, the Bay College Norse finally got to play some softball at home on Sunday. And the Norse picked up a doubleheader sweep over the Finlandia University Lions, 3-0 and 7-4. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
Scott Hiller's walk-off RBI single in the ninth inning led the Escanaba Eskymos to a 9-8 come-from-behind win over the Iron Moumntain Mountaineers on Saturday. The grandson of 1968 Detroit Tigers World Series champion John Hiller came through two hours after Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera got his 3,000th career hit. Click the above headline for details.
