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.
The Negaunee High School girls tennis team picked up another Mid Peninsula Conference championship on Thursday, edging the Westwood Patriots for the MPC title, heading into next week's MHSAA Division One championships in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls tennis team won the Great Northern Conference championship on Wednesday, winning for a fourth straight year, and setting up a battle with Negaunee in the MHSAA U.P. Finals next Wednesday. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Senior High School boys soccer team shut out three opponents on Saturday at a tournament in Alpena, after also dominating a tournament down in Suttons Bay the previous week. Click the above headline to see recaps the matches, and photos taken by Mary Sysko.
The Northern Michigan football team fell in a high-scoring affair to Alma College on Homecoming, 44-27. Click the above headline for details from both team's perspetives, and to hear NMU radio highlight from the game. (NMU Photo)
The Michigan Tech football team put together its most complete game of the season in a 44-7 thrashing of No. 13 UW-Oshkosh at Titan Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (Story, photo courtesy of Michigan Tech Athletics)
The Gladstone High School football team broke a three-game losing streak Friday night with a 36-20 win over the Hancock Bulldogs at Hancock's McAfee Field. Isaac Ketchum rushed for 181 yards and three touchdowns, and Casey Alworden scored on a long pass reception and an even longer punt return. Click the above headline to see photos taken by Brad Landis.
Despite turning in a hard-fought game, the Northern Michigan University Wildcat women's soccer team fell to No. 1 Grand Valley State 1-0, in a storm-delayed match on Friday in Marquette. Click the above headline for details. (Photo, story courtesy of NMU Sports Information)
Todd Ciochetto, who led the Bay College Norse women's basketball team on an improbable turnaround into the national rankings last season, abruptly resigned on Thursday after just one year on the job. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Volleyball Team began conference play at home on Tuesday and came out on top of the Montcalm Centurions in three sets. Each set was tight, with the Norse winning by scores of 26-24, 28-26, and 26-24. Click the above headline for details. (Bay photo)
The NMU women's golf team traveled down to Columbus, Ohio to start their fall season at the ODU Champions of Women's Golf. The 'Cats sit 11th of 15 teams after round one, and Maggie Pietila recorded the program's second ever hole in one with her sister on the course and family in attendance. Click the above headline for details. (NMU photo)
The Upper Peninsula Sports Writers and Sportscasters Association came out Tuesday with its first high school football polls of the season. A panel of five members of the media from across the U.P. votes every week on the best teams. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse Volleyball Team suffered a pair of losses on the road Saturday afternoon. They were swept by St. Claire Windsor in three sets before Oakland Community College earned their first win of the season, 3-2. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan football team hit the road for a Saturday contest against the UW-La Crosse Eagles, falling 35-21. Click the above headline for details, and to hear radio replays of the NMU touchdowns, and comments from Coach Shane Richardson.
The Northern Michigan volleyball team earned a monumental early-season victory on Saturday morning, besting the No. 7 team in the country, the St. Cloud State Huskies, in five sets to close out the Up North Tournament on a high note. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan Tech football team elevated its win streak against Hillsdale to six following a 21-6 victory against the Chargers in front of over 1,700 fans at Kearly Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
