The American Legion Baseball Class A state championship game was a nailbiter to the end on Saturday in Gladstone, and the Trenton Steel took home the hardware with a dramatic 11-9 win over the Gladstone Indians at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details, photos and videos taken by Brad Landis, and to hear post-game interviews.
The Escanaba 11u girls Little League All-Star softball team is off to a good start at the state tournament in Gladstone, picking up two wins by a combined score of 40-0 heading into Sunday's final pool play games. Click the above headline for details.
The defending state champion Trenton Steel scored six runs in the first inning and cruised to a 10-2 win over the Gladstone Indians, and the Norway Vikings lost a heartbreaker on Friday during Day Two of the Class A Michigan American Legion Baseball state tournament in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Gladstone 10u Minor Little League All-Star team rolled to a 13-0 win over Jackson Northwest in the first state tournament game Friday evening in the Detroit suburb of Bormingham. Click the above headline for details. (Amber Quigley photo)
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team opened state tournament play Thursday night with a 12-2 win over the Hudson Post 180 Hellcats from southern lower Michigan. Tyler Darmogray battled through five innings that included rain and a small strike zone, and the Indians had timely hits to build an early lead. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee 14u Junior Little League All-Star baseball team won the league's first-ever state chmpionship on Tuesday, beating defending state champion Birmingham in the semifinals, 11-6, and then upsetting Muskegon Roosevelt Park, 8-4, in the championship. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
The Negaunee 14u Junior Little League All-Star baseball team lost to Plymouth-Canton, 10-1, in a rather meaningless state tournament game Monday in suburban Grand Rapids. Negaunee was already guaranteed of a spot in the state semifinals, where they will face the team that eliminated them last summer. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone 10u Minor Little League All-Star softball team had their tournament run come to a sudden end on Monday, losing to Hudsonville in the state semifinals in downstate Mattawan, 8-2. The girls had won four straight games. Click the above headline for details.
The brand new Norway Vikings American Legion baseball team made quick history on Sunday, winning the Upper Peninsula Zone Five Championship at Marquette's Haley Field. They advance to the state tournament in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone 10u Minor Little League All-Star softball team rolled over another opponent in the state quarterfinals on Sunday, whipping Blissfield, 18-1, to advance to Monday's Final Four. It was Gladstone's fourth straight mercy rule win, by a combined score of 63-1. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Kingsford 12u All-Star team has won three games in a row at the state tournament in Petoskey. Click the above headline for details, interviews. (Kristina Fredrickson photo)
Reese Lovell smoked two home runs, including one that cleared the left field fence, to lead the Gladstone 10u Minor Little League All-Stars to a 19-0 win over Jackson Southwest at the state tournament Saturday in Mattawan. Click the above headline for all of the details.
The Gladstone 10u Minor Little League All-Star team kept cruising along on Friday, winning for the second straight game by the mercy rule at the state tournament in the southwest Michigan town of Mattawan. Marquette lost, however. Click the above headline for details.
Four teams advanced to the Upper Peninsula Zone Five semifinals in American Legion Baseball on Friday after a long day of eight games played on two separate fields. Click the above headline for all of the scores and for game details.
The Gladstone 10u Minor Little League All-Star softball team opened the state tournament Thursday night with an easy 16-0 win over Swan Valley in southwest Lower Michigan. Marquette, meanwhile, lost to Grayling, 10-0. Click the above headline for detials.
The American Legion Baseball Zone Five tournament will not start on Thursday after all. The weather forecast calls for rain, and with teams traveling from all over the U.P. to get to Marquette County, the decision was made to delay the start of the tournament until Friday. Click the above headline to see the new schedule.
The Gladstone and Norway 10u Minor Little League baseball teams are ready for one, maybe two, more Battles Royale after both advanced to the district championship round on Tuesday in Rock. Gladstone beat Norway in the completion of Monday's suspended game, 11-8, in seven innings, before Norway scored six late runs to break a 6-6 tie and beat Iron Mountain North, 12-6. So, Gladstone and Norway play again on Wednesday at 5 ET/4 CT in Rock.
The Iron Mountain North 10u Minor Little League All-Stars fell behind 7-1 Monday night, but scored 20 unanswwered runs to eliminate Escanaba, 21-7, in Rock. Then the Gladstone-Norway game was suspended by darkness in the final inning. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Reds American Legion Baseball team won the Junior Association championship on Sunday, winning a war against Norway, 2-1, in the semifinals, and then rolling over Kingsford, 12-0, in the championship game. Click the above headline for photos, videos, listen to interviews, and how some Marquette players broadcasted the game.
Tyler Darmogray pitched 6 2/3 innings and had four hits at the plate as the Gladstone Indians routed the Escanaba Cubs, 10-3, Friday night at Al Ness Field. Damogray has now had ten hits in his last twelve at-bats. Click the above headline for details.
Aedan Creten hit a three-run homer and Issac Ketchum tossed 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief as the Gladstone Indians beat the Marquette Blues, 6-2, Wednesday night at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Kingsford 12u Major Little League All-stars won the District Ten championship Tuesday night, beating Norway, 3-1, at Marion Park. The Kingsford kids are partly from south of the border: from Florence, Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan hockey team has announced the hiring of Jimmy Spratt as a third assistant coach ahead of the 2023-24 season. Spratt spent the 2022-23 season with the Green Bay Gamblers of the USHL. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Gladstone 14u Junior Little League All-Star softball team had its season come to an abrupt end early Tuesday morning after losing two games at the state tournament in West Branch. Click the above headline for details. photos, post-game comments.
It was the end of the line on Monday for both the Escanaba and Marquette 12u Major Little League All-Star softball teams, as they both were eliminated after pool play in the state tournament at Jackson's Cascade Falls Park. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba 12u Major Little League All-Stars took a tough 5-4 loss to Bullock Creek on Sunday at the state tournament in Jackson, and the Marquette All-Stars lost to Grosse Pointe, 15-0. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion baseball team shook off Friday night's extra inning loss by winning two games on Saturday at the Wood Ducks Tournament in Sault Ste. Marie. Meanwhile, at the same tournament, the Marquette Blues suffered a pair of lopsided losses after winning their first game Friday night. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Major Little League 12u All-Star team opened state tournament play on Saturday by winning the Yooper Bowl seven hours away from home. Escanaba cruised to a mercy-shortened 16-0 win over Marquette under rainy conditions at Cascade Falls Park in Jackson. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team hung on to earn a win in Wisconsin Friday night, while the Marquette Blues won on a walk-off and the Escanaba Cubs lost a wild game in Sault Ste. Marie. Click the above headline to read the details.
Alex Ortman struck out eleven batters and pitched a complete game as the Norway Vikings American Legion Baseball team rallied from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Marquette Blues, 5-4, Wednesday night in Norway. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
