The Michigan High School Athletic Association Representative Council has made multiple changes to a number of sports, including the seeding of the entire basketball district tournaments. The MHSAA also added boys volleyball and girls field hockey. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School baseball team scored four runs in the first two innings and held on to beat the Gladstone Braves, 4-3. Click the above headline for details, listen to post-game interviews, and see photos and videos taken by GHS student Jayger Quinn.
The Escanaba High School softball team swept a doubleheader from the Gladstone Braves, 5-2 and 13-3, Tuesday night at Lemmerand Park. Click the above headline for details, interviews, and to see photos and videos taken by GHS student Jayger Quinn.
Escanaba Eskymos senior Bon LaChance has set the school's all-time career record for runs batted in with 92. He broke the record during Escanaba's 6-2 win in Kingsford Tuesday night. The old record, held by Steve Berg, had stood since 2006. Click the above headline for details.
Sophomore Ashton Rymkos smacked his first varsity home run and senior Ben Johnson starred on both offense and defense as the Escanaba Eskymos beat the Manistique Emeralds, 9-3, Monday night, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos boys tennis team won three of the four doubles matches, and posted a 5-3 win over the Marquette Sentinels Monday afternoon in Escanaba. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos from several of the matches.
The Negaunee Miners won seven flights and cruised to the championship of the Kingsford boys tennis invitational on Saturday. Escanaba finished second, winning one flight and getting three second-place finishes. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team lost two more tight games on Saturday, falling to the Kingsford Flivvers, 3-2, and to the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils, 4-0, in a rain-shortened game at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Iron Mountain senior pitcher Niko Burgoon pitched a gem and he got big help from freshman third baseman Connor Pickett on Thursday, and the duo led the Mountaineers to a 3-1 upset win over the Gladstone Braves at Ranger Field. Gladstone came back to take the nightcap, 17-6. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The Gladstone High School softball team pulled off two improbable comebacks against one of the best teams in the state Thursday night, beating the Negaunee Miners, 8-7 and 12-11. The Miners entered the doubleheader with a 19-1 record. Click the above headline for details.
Isaac Sarles threw a five-hit complete game shutout and the Marquette Sentinels took advantage of several Escanaba Eskymos defensive mistakes in posting a 3-0 win Wedmesday night at Marquette's Haley Field. Sarles outdueled Escanaba's Eli Gardner, who allowed only four hits nd one earned run in six innings. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team wrapped up its best-ever season in program history with a doubleheader sweep over Detroit Community Christian College on Sunday. The final game ended with eleven unanswered runs and the Norse honored their eleven sophomores during a ceremony. Click the above headline for interviews. plus photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Escanaba Eskymos and 7th-ranked Southgate Anderson Titans hooked up in a pair of baseball games Saturday afternoon in Escanaba. After the Titans jumped to an eealy 4-0 lead and cruised to a 9-4 win in the opener, the two teams played a classic 1-0 game in the nightcap. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Southgate Anderson High School baseball team began a four-game Delta County road trip with a pair of victories over the Gladstone Braves on Friday, winning 14-3 and 11-2, at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details, and to hear coach and player interviews.
The NMU lacrosse team punched its ticket to the GLIAC Championship match after dowing the Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears 15-6 on Friday. Minnie Bittell and Josie Lakosky both scored five goals for the Wildcats. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Gladstone High School softball team won two games over the Houghton Gremlins, 10-0 and 10-5, Friday in Gladstone. The Braves improved to 9-6 on the season while the Gremlins fell to 7-6. Click the above headline to see photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
Bon LaChance hit a pair of home runs Wednesday as the Escanaba Eskymos swpt a baseball doubleheader from the Neguanee Miners, 6-5 and 6-1, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Bay College Norse baseball team extended its winning streak to six games on Tuesday, and crossed the 20-win plateau for the first time in program history, with a doubleheader sweep of the Alpena Community College Lumnberjacks, 10-5 and 5-4. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse softball team wrapped up its season with a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday, beating Alpena Community College, 10-6 and 5-2. The Norse ended their season with a bang, as sophomore Izzy Drabant smoked a three-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 2-2 tie. Click the above headline for photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Bay College Norse softball team dropped three of four games to the Delta College Pioneers out of the Saginaw area over the weekend. The Norse lost two one-run heartbreakers on Friday, 11-10 and 4-3, before winning the Saturday opener, 5-2. The Pioneers went back downstate with a 13-3 win in the finale. Click the above headline for details. (Brad Landis photo)
The Bay College Norse baseball team won four games over the weekend to keep their playoff hopes alive, heading into the final days of the regular season. Click the above headline for details, hear interviews, and to see photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Kingsford High School baseball team won a Great Northern Conference game for the second straight night Wednesday night, taking out the Escanaba Eskymos, 9-1, at Al Ness Field. The win follows a 6-2 win over Marquette the night before, putting the Flivvers in the early driver's seat in the GNC conference race. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team stepped onto the big stage Tuesday afternoon, playing a doubleheader against the Bryant & Stratton College Bobcats from suburban Milwaukee at Fox Cities Stadium near Appleton. Click the above headline for details, photos, interviews.
Payton Jacobson of the Northern Michigan Greco-Roman Wrestling program secured a thrilling best-of-3 victory in the 87kg weight class final to earn his spot on the Team USA Olympic roster. Click the above headline to see all of the details. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College Norse women's softball team picked up a huge win over the Mid Michigan College Lakers on Saturday, winning, 11-4, at the Wells Sports Complex. The Lakers won the nightcap, 14-1. Click the above headline for details, videos, and post-game interviews.
It was an historic evening on Thursday for the Iron Mountain High School baseball program as the Mountaineers faced the L'Anse Purple Hornets. Senior pitcher Niko Burgoon tossed a perfect game, retiring all 15 batters he faced in the five-inning game. He struck out 14 of those batters. It was the first perfect game ever thrown by a Mountaineer pitcher. Iron Mountain won the game easily, 11-0, for its first win of the season (1-3).
The Gladstone Braves and Negaunee Miners hooked up in a pair of tightly-contested baseball games Thursday evening at Don Olsen Field. The Braves pulled out both games, 2-0 and 4-1, as the Miners stranded 16 baserunners in the doubleheader. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse Softball Team picked up a pair of conference wins on the road Tuesday, defeating the Alpena Lumberjacks, 12-4 and 11-4. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team's playoff push ran into a roadblock on Tuesday after the Norse won the first game of a doubleheader, but coughed up a late lead in the nightcap, in Alpena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Bay College Norse baseball team played four non-conference games on the road this weekend, and brought home two victories heading into a crucial doubleheader Tuesday in Alpena. Click the above headline for details. (Bay College photo)
