The Michigan High School Athletic Association's Bush Award winners were announced by the association on Wednesday. Two of them have ties to the Upper Peninsula: Mark Mattson and Christian Wilson. Click the above headline to read details.
The Norse Cross Country Teams finished off their regular season schedule over the weekend in downstate Muskegon at the Jayhawk Invitational. A number of Bay harriers finished with their best times of the year. Click the above headline for details.
The Copper Country Christian High School soccer team won the Division Two Upper Peninsula championship over the weekend with a come-from-behind win over Sault Ste. Marie. Click the above headline for details, and to see a few photos courtesy of the school.
The Marquette High School boys soccer team completed a near perfect season over the weekend by beating the Houghton Gremlins, 7-0, for the Division One Upper Peninsula championship. The Iron Mountain and Kingsford teams could not complete because of coronavirus restrictions that shut them down at the last minute. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School football team returned from an unscheduled off week on Saturday with a 34-22 win over a tough Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes team in the Copper Country. Click the above headline to read the details and the game's statistics.
The Gladstone High School football team ran into a buzzsaw in Menominee Friday night, as the Maroons scored 34 p;oints in the first half and rolled to a 41-0 win in a Great Northern Conference game. Click the above headline for photos, interviews.
The Escanaba High School volleyball team pulled out a marathon 3-2 win over the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils in a highly-entertaining match Thursday night. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos were on the football field for the first time Thursday night after cancellations due to coronavirus shutdowns. It was a JV game, played before a small crowd of family members, but the Eskymos were back. Escanaba beat Marquette, 34-12, as Casey Bray threw touchdown passes to Trent Lawson and added a rushing touchdown. Click the above headline to see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba High School volleyball team played for the first time in three-and-a-half weeks Tuesday nignt, and cruised to a 3-0 win over the Stephenson Eagles. The scores were 25-17, 25-13, 25-14. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The Bay College Norse softball team finally got on the field in competition for the first time since playing a dozen games in Florida last March. The season got cancelled, and then all of the fall exhibition games were called off. The team broke into two teams for a a pair of scrimmages this weekend. Click the above headline for pictures/
The Marquette Junior Wildcats hockey team jumped to a 3-0 lead and held on to beat Chippewa Falls, Wis., on Sunday, in suburban Green Bay. Marquette ended up finishing with a 2-2 record in the three-day event. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
Kane Nebel threw a pair of first half touchdown passes to Ethan Lakosky to help the Munising Mustangs turn back the Stephenson Eagles, 28-14, Saturday in Stephenson. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Bay College Norse hosted a three-team cross country event on Saturday in Gladstone. Escanaba native Zach Rose won the men's race in 30:02 while North Central College took the top three spots in the women's race. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves and Kingsford Flivvers traded big plays, and mistakes, before the Flivvers eeked out a 30-28 win over the Braves in a highly-entertaining game Friday night in Kingsford. Click the above headline for details, photos, and videos.
The Kingsford Flivvers junior varsity football team overwhelmed the Gladstone Braves, 37-6, Thursday night in Gladstone. Meanwhile, in varsity action, Rapid River rolled past Newberry, 48-12. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Bay College Athletics Department is preparing for a round of home events, including the addition of a softball scrimmage on Saturday and a home cross country meet the same day. Click the above headline to see which teams will be competing.
The Negaunee Miners captured the MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula girls tennis championship on Monday, taking five of the eight flights. Click the above headline to read details, courtesy of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. (Ryan Stieg photo)
The Bay College Norse Cross Country Team returned to action Friday at Kirtland Community College. The men would finish in tenth place out of 13 teams, while the women ended up in eleventh place. Click the above headline to read details.
The Green Bay Packers announced on Tuesday that plans to have some spectators at Lambeau Field have been put on hold indefinitely. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School volleyball team lost the first set of its Great Northern Conference match against the Menominee Maroons Monday night, but Megan Crow led a big turnaround as the Braves posted a 3-1 (19-25, 25-10, 25-16, 25-15) win. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and video highlights.
The Northern Michigan University Swim & Dive teams hosted their annual Green and Gold Meet, and also celebrated the 2020 Women's Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship with a ring ceremony, Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
The Manistique Emeralds beat Gogebic Miners 12-0 on Saturday in Wakefield. Wyatt Gierke had 89 yards rushing and a nine-yard TD run. Carter Miller added a 7-yard TD run in a game where both defenses forced several turnovers. The Emeralds (1-2) host Bark River-Harris next Friday.
Cam Kelly had three long touchdown runs, Hunter Potier had four quarterback sacks, and Cole Potier had a scoop-n-score touchdown as the Gladstone Braves beat the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils, 28-26, Friday night on Blue Devil Homecoming. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, videos, and interviews.
The Gladstone High School volleyball team pulled out a 3-2 win over the Gwinn Model Towners Thursday night, as senior Megan Crow dominated the fifth set that was set up by clutch serving by sophomore Alivia Blowers. The scores were 25-23, 17-25, 15-25, 27-25, 15-10. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School junior varsity team scored touchdowns on the first two offensive possessions Thursday and cruised past the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils, 24-6, at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
Sone members of the Escanaba High School football team gathered at the school on Tuesday to plead with administrators to allow sports to resume immediately. This after Superintendent Coby Fletcher decided last week to have junior and high school classes be delivered over the Internet for two weeks, and put on hold all extracurricular activies. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and interviews.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said on Tuesday that she will not reconsider making changes to her executive order which requires athletes to wear masks while competing in sports like football and volleyball. In an interview with RRN News, the governor said the tough rule is designed to protect kids from the virus. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association has announced changes to the football playoff system for this fall. Click the above headline to read details.
It was a happy Homecoming for the North Central High School football team Saturday as the Jets rolled to a 86-0 win over a young North Dickinson Nordics team. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Gladstone High School football team rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat the Negaunee Miners, 22-20, Friday night in Gladstone. The Braves played just one day after being able to practice again after some team members were quarantined due to COVID-19. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
