The Escanaba High School hockey team could not get a puck past Alpena senior goaltender Aidan Schultz Tuesday night and the Eskymos fell to the seventh-ranked Wildcats, 5-0. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Former Northern Michigan University football player Shane Richardson has been named his alma mater's 23rd head football coach.Richardson, who was the head coach at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke for the past eight seasons, officially takes over the position on Wednesday in Marquette. Click the above headline for more details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team braved the cold, wind, and snow outside to host its annual Alumni Night Friday at the Wells Sports Complex. There were two 60-minute long games: one with mostly older Esky graduates, and the other with mostly recent grads. Click the above headline to see photos and videos from both games.
The Calumet High School hockey team beat the Hancock Bulldogs, 4-2, Thursday night at the Colosseum, despite being outshot 35-16. The team started the night by honoring legendary coach Jim Crawford, who died Tuesday night. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School girls basketball team hung tough for the second straight game, but could not make the big shots down the stretch and fell to the Houghton Gremlins, 47-40, Tuesday night in Gladstone. The close loss followed a 51-48 loss to Marquette on Monday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
Bay College's Tyrel Creger has been named the MCCAA Northern Conference Player of the Week for the week of December 11-18. Click the above headline for details.
Kodey Goldi fought off early foul trouble and scored a career high 42 to lead the Rapid River Rockets to a 80-60 win over the previously-undefeated Big Bay deNoc Black Bears Monday night. Steven Holmes scored 32 points in a losing effort for Big Bay. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and post-game interviews.
The NMU men's basketball team defeated Finlandia University 125-50 on Sunday. The 75-point win marked the largest margin of victory in school history, breaking the previous record of 74 points set on two occasions in the mid-1960's. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan women's basketball team won their second straight game on Saturday, defeating Illinois-Springfield by a 67-53 margin. In Coach Thousand's first meeting with her former team, the Wildcats were victorious. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College women's basketball team played hard in a doubleheader on Friday, against two teams with a combined record of 19-1. The Norse lost both games in the final minute to close the 2022 part of the schedule. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College men's basketball team was forced to play two games on Friday for the first time in school history, and the Norse battled through it to post two victories to close the 2022 portion of the 2022-23 season. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team earned a 4-2 win over the Hancock Bulldogs at the Houghton County Arena Friday night, with four different goal scorers and 27 saves from freshman goaltdender Cully Hayes. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls basketball team went on a 19-0 run to break open a close game to defeat the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 66-54, Thursday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team pulled away from the Division III Lawrence (Wis.) Vikings, 89-62, Wednesday night in Marquette. Click the above headline for details, and interviews with Dylan Kuehl, Matt Majkrzak, and Najashi Tolefree.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team hosted its only home match of the season Tuesday night, and picked up victories over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers and Marquette Redmen in a quad meet. Iron Mountain topped Kingsford, while the Flivvers beat Marquette in the other matches. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team ran into a buzzsaw Monday night in Milwaukee, as they fell to the third-ranked team in the country, the Milwaukee Area Technical College Stormers, 89-70, at Alverno College. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College women's basketball team had a good game with outside shooting Monday night, but could not pull through in the final minutes and lost to Milwaukee Tech, 63-57, in Milwaukee. The Norse settle for a weekend split after they beat the College of Lake County (Ill.) Sunday, 63-33. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team held off the Lake Superior State University Lakers on Sunday, 72-64, Sunday at the Berry Events Cente. Click the above headline for details, and to hear post-game interviews.
The NMU men's basketball team defeated the Lake Superior State Lakers 87-72 in a Sunday GLIAC matchup behind significant contributions throughout the lineup. Max Bjoklund led the Wildcats with 23 points. Click the above headline for details and post-game comments.
Marcus Tomashek made one of two free throws with 2.4 seconds remaining and Michigan Tech held on to defeat Ferris State 69-68 inside SDC Gymnasium Sunday afternoon in GLIAC men's basketball action. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team topped the Ferris State Bulldogs, 5-2, Saturday night, heading into the holiday break with an 11-9-0 record. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team had to fight past a hot goaltender to post a 5-2 win over Rochester United Friday night at the Wells Sports Complex. Freshman Nolan Bink scored three goals for a hat trick, and fellow ninth grader Graham Johnson lit the lamp. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The North Central High School boys basketball team wrapped up a perfect 2-0 opening week by dominating the Rapid River Rockets, 63-36, Thursday night in Powers. Hunter Robinson led the Jets with 20 points, countering the 20 put up by Rockets center Kodey Goldi. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
Northern Michigan University senior and former Ewen-Trout Creek standout Jake Witt declared for the National Football League Draft on Thursday. The 6-foot-7, 280-pound tight end/lineman knows it's a long shot, but is willing to take that shot with hopes of someday playing on Sundays. Click the above headline to hear our interview with Witt.
The Bay College women's basketball team was outscored 25-4 during an eigt minute stretch of the first half and could not recover, losing to the Kalamazoo Valley Cougars, 63-46,, Tianna Wednesday night at the Bay College Gym. It was Bay's first game in 17 days. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team scored six straight goals after a scoreless 25 minutes of play, and beat the Negaunee Miners, 6-0, Tuesday night, in a game that more resembled a football game than a hockey game. Three different Eskymos scored two goals apiece in the win. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team suffered its first loss of the season on Saturday, falling to Dakota County (MInn.) Technical College, 69-67, in an intense game in Minnesota. Click the above headline for details, pictures, videos, and interviews.
The Northern Michigan University Wildcats and Michigan Tech University Huskies played another tight hockey game Saturday night before a sell-out crwod. But unlike Friday's NMU victory, it was Tech that came through, posting a 3-1 win. Click the above headline for details.
In a sold-out Berry Events Center seeing an attendance of 4,263, the Wildcats got a thrilling 4-3 OT victory over the Michigan Tech Huskies. Alex Frye got the game-winning tally with 1:20 on the clock, a shorthanded breakaway score. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team bounced back from Tuesday night's rough performance against Marquette by rolling past the Painesdale-Jeffers Jets, 9-4, Friday night at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline to read game details.
