The Bay College Norse women's basketball team grew its incoming class by three more players this week as Coach Todd Chiochetto continues to build on last season's surprising success. Click the above headline for details. (Holly Letson photo)
The Escanaba High School baseball team opened its season with a 12-3 win over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers Wednesday night at Al Ness Field. Ben Johnson and Brian Boutilier both drove in two runs in an eight-run fifth inning that put the game away. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The high school baseball season got underway on Tuesday as the Gladstone Braves swept a doubleheader from the Iron Mountain Mountaineers, 17-2, and 6-1, at Don Olsen Field. It was a rematch of last spring's regional semifinal game, but there were a lot of new faces on the field for both teams on Tuesday. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
he Bay College Softball Team picked up its first win of the season with a 17-6 victory in the opening game of a four-game set with the Grand Rapids Community College Raiders. GRCC took the next three games by scores of 8-1, 14-12, and 11-3. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Baseball Team lost all four games this weekend to the Grand Rapids Community College Raiders by scores of 10-1, 7-2, 11-4, and 6-3. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announed the All-U.P. teams Friday night for the just-completed girls basketball season. Negaunee's Ella Mason was named Miss U.P. Basketball as the Upper Peninsula's best player. Click the above headline to see all of the winners. (Photo of Ella Mason/Hudl)
St. Ignace High School senior Jonny Ingalls was the unanimous choice for Mr. U.P. Basketball as the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association revealed its All-U.P. teams Wednesday evening. Click the above headline for the entire list.
Michigan Tech's 2023-24 hockey season came to an end Friday in the NCAA Providence Regional Semifinal as the No. 20-ranked Huskies fell 6-1 to No. 1 Boston College. The Eagles scored four goals in the third period to break the game open. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team scored six unanswered runs in the final two innings to rally past the Muskegon Community College Jayhawks, 11-9, in the opening game of a four-game conference series Thursday in Muskegon. Blake Julian's three-run double in the seventh inning won it. Click the above headline for details. (Cohen Thompson photos)
The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team fell behind early, but recovered to pull past Kingston, 73-54, to win the MHSAA Division Four state championship Saturday in East Lansing. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA photo, story)
The Michigan Tech University hockey team won the CCHA championship and a bid to the NCAA Tournament Friday night with a 2-1 win over Bemidji State in Minnesota. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo and story)
The Negaunee Miners historic girls basketball season came to an end in the MHSAA Division Two state semifinals on Friday night with a 63-46 loss to Detroit Edison at the MSU Breslin Center. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Story, MHSAA Photo/Hockey Weekly Action)
The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team got 30 points from Jenna Maki, 22 of them in the first half, and the Hematites rolled past the Fowler Eagles, 75-40, in the MHSAA Division Four state semifinals Thursday night at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the MHSAA. (MHSAA photo)
Isabella DeWildt of Sault Ste. Marie High School was honored as a recipient of the Michigan High School Athletic Association/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award. The presentatipon was made at the boys basketball finals last weekend at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. She will receive $2,000 to use at her college of choice. (MHSAA Photo)
Three of Northern Michigan University's top men's basketball players announced on Wednesday that they are leaving town, offering their services to other universities through the NCAA Transfer Portal. Click the above headline to read more details.
Bay College women's basketball coach Todd Ciochetto is busy restocking the shelves for next season, less than two weeks after the Norse season ended in the regional semifinals. Click the above headline to see who has signed. (Pictured: Menominee's Axtall)
The Lake Superior State basketball program fell to the Ferris State Bulldogs in the closing moments of the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship in a hard-fought game by a final score of 86-81 on Tuesday. Click the above headline for details. (LSSU Photo, Story)
The Marquette Midget BB 18u hockey team won a MAHA state championship Sunday night in downstate Howell. Marquette beat Belle Tire from the Detroit suburb of Taylor, 4-3, in double overtime, in the championship game, after coming back from a 3-1 deficit. Earlier in the day, Marquette beat Big Boy from the Detroit suburb of Fraser, 4-1, in the semifinal.
The MHSAA girls basketball playoffs are in full swing across the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules.
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team had its season come to an end on Saturday, losing to Ferris State, 81-65, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Indianapolis. Click the above headline for details. (Casey Ford Photo)
The Lake Superior State hockey program fell to the Bemidji State Beavers, 4-1, in the CCHA Mason Cup Semifinals on Saturday in Minnesota. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of Lake Superior State Athletics. (LSSU Photo)
Escanaba graduate Nicole Kamin scored 20 points and blocked three shots as top-ranked Grand Valley State eliminated the Northern Michigan University women's basketball team, 72-44, in the NCAA Regional Semifinals on Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan Tech University hockey team got a goal from Logan Pietila with 9.1 seconds left in the game to beat Minnesota State-Mankato, 4-3, in the CCHA semifinal game Saturday night in Houghton. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MTU Athletics. (MTU Photo)
The Lake Superior State basketball team came back in the second half to upset the No. 3 seeded Walsh Cavaliers by a final score of 74-72 in the NCAA Midwest Regional Quarterfinals on Saturday. Click the above headline for details. (Story, photo courtesy of LSSU)
Jacy Weisbrod scored a career-high 29 points while tying a single-game program record with nine triples as the Northern Michigan women's basketball team dominated in its first NCAA Tournament game in five years, knocking off Kentucky Wesleyan 69-56. Click the above headline for details, and to hear post-game comments from Jacy Weisbrod and Coach Casey Thosuand.
The St. Ignace High School boys basketball team had a six-point lead in the fourth quarter of their Division Four state semifinal game against Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian on Thursday, but could not hold on, losing, 60-53. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Photo)
The Northern Michigan University women's hockey team won its second straight game at the ACHA National Tournament on Thursday, but it wasn't enough for the Wildcats to earn a spot in the Final Four. Northern defeated Boston College, 3-2, in Missouri, as Chloe Valente, Breanna Bisek, and Tyya McKenzie all scored goals. Larkyn Ripley stopped 37 of the 39 shots she faced in net. Northern finished round robin play with a 2-1 record.
The Bay College Norse baseball team finished its trip to South Carolina by winning seven of the nine games they played, the best start in program history. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of Bay College Sports Information. (Bay Photo)
THe high school boys basketball post-season is winding down. Click the above headline for all of the Upper Peninsula's scores and schedules.
It was the end of the line for the Bay College Norse men's basketball team on Sunday, as the Norse lost a heartbreaker to Hocking College (Ohio), 82-80, in the NJCAA Region 12 Championship game in Flint. Click teh above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
