The Westwood Patriots rolled to a big first quarter lead and allowed only one first down on defense, and beat the Manistique Emeralds, 44-0, Thursday night in Manistique. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and videos.
Bay College Athletic Director Matt Johnson has announced that the Bay Invitational Softball Scrimmages that were scheduled for this weekend have been cancelled. Click the above headline for details.
The Rapid River High School volleyball team lost the first game to the Munising Mustangs on Senior Night Tuesday, but won the next three games to pick up a 3-1 win. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and video clips.
The Bay College Norse Cross Country Teams began their season Friday evening at Kirtland Community College. Zach Rose of Escanaba set the pace for the Norse with a second place finish. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School football team scored early and often Friday night as the season got off to a delayed start, and beat the Ontonagon Gladiators, 84-6, in Powers. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights,
The Escanaba Eskymos girls tennis team knocked off the Gladstone Braves, 7-1, on Friday, in a matchup that saw the Braves play without three of their usual players and the Eskymos down one player. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School soccer team cruised to a 5-0 win over the Kingsford Flivvers Thursday night, their third straight win in the series. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls tennis team won all four singles flights and beat the Kingsford Flivvers, 5-3, Thursday afternoon in Kingsford. Click the above headline for details.
The season-opening varsity football game between the Gladstone Braves and Marquette Redmen set for this Friday has been called off because of a positive coronavirus test in the Gladstone program. Marquette will face Menominee instead on Friday. The JV Braves game will go as scheduled. The varsity Braves plan to play their next game on Sept. 25 against Negaunee as scheduled.
the Marquette Redman varsity boys soccer team rolled to its fourth straight shutout win on Saturday, 6-0, in Houghton. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls tennis team won three of four doubles matches Friday to earn a 4-4 tie with the West Iron County Wykons in a make-up match. All of the flights were straight set wins. Click the above headline to read details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association on Thursday issued a detailed statement saying that it would try to help schools deal with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's order requiring masks for athletes competing in football, soccer, and volleyball. But the MHSAA said that it does not have the power to make changes to it. Click the above headline for details.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Wednesday that requires high school athletes to wear masks at all times, even while on the field or court of play. The only exception is swimming. Upper Peninsula high school volleyball and soccer teams had been playing the last couple of weeks with masks on the sidelines, but not while in competition. Click the above headline to read details of her new order.
The Kingsford Flivvers girls volleyball team won for the second time this season in Delta County Tuesday night, beating the Escanaba Eskymos, 3-1. The scores were 25-22, 25-20, 18-25, 25-16. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Marquette Redmen boys soccer team traveled to Kingsford Tuesday night and rolled to a 6-0 win in the first half of a home-and-home series. Sophomore Max Dawson had a hat trick and senior Nick Lindberg had a goal and four assists. Click the above headline for details.
The Felch Labor Day baseball tournament continued on Sunday with a great game between the Marquette Minutemen and the Team 906/Jacobson Logging squad. Team 906 won, 2-1, after Channing eliminated Escanaba earlier in the day, 6-1. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and video highlights.
The 50th annual U.P. Hardball Classic baseball tournament got underway on Saturday in Iron Mountain with a talented group of Wisconsin teams joining the Delta County Bay College and host Iron Mountain team. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba "Mikey D's Beer Cave" baseball team scored four runs in the fifth inning to rally past the host Felch Rangers, 5-4, as the Labor Day weekend tournament began Friday night. Click the above headline to read details and see photos, videos.
The Kingsford Flivvers overpowered the Gladstone Braves, 3-0, in high school girls volleyball action Thursday night in Gladstone. The match was played with no fans in the stands per a decision by the Great Northern Conference athletic directors for all conference matches. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Marquette Redmen boys varsity soccer team traveled to Escanaba Thursday night for a boys varsity soccer game. The game ended in a 8-0 Marquette mercy win at the half. Click the above headline to read details.
The Fall 2020 football season has been reinstated today by the Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association after Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Executive Order 176 lifted restrictions that previously did not allow the sport to be played. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls tennis team won all four doubles matches and split the singles matches, and beat the Munising Mustangs, 6-2, on Wednesday. Click the above headline for photos from the #3 and #4 singles matches, and coach's comments.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer gave no indication Wednesday afternoon that she will make the changes requested by the Michigan High School Athletic Association to move forward with football, and to allow some other sports to resume downstate. In fact, the governor pointed to "concerning" case counts in the U.P. and northern lower peninsula while saying she'd have an announcement "very soon". Click the above headline for more.
Senior Taylor Kedsch had 19 kills Tuesday to lead the Carney-Nadeau Wolves to a 3-0 win over the Bark River-Harris Broncos in girls volleyball action. The scores were 25-20, 25-18, 25-18. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan University Athletics Department has announced the newest inductees to the NMU Sports Hall of Fame. There will be mo ceremony due to the coronavirus. Click the above headline to see who's being inducted.
Members of the Bark River-Harris and North Central High School football teams made the long trip to Lansing on Friday to take part in a rally with hundreds of their downstate peers on the steps of the state capitol. Click the above headline to see photos and listen to interviews with the Jets and Broncos players.
The 2020 high school cross country season got underway Friday with the Marquette Relays. Click the above headline for details, and Gladstone Braves photos.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Marquette Redettes played to a 4-4 tie in girls tennis Thursday in Marquette. Click the above headline to read the details.
Upper Peninsula State Senator Ed McBroom calls the cancellation of the high school and college football seasons in Michigan “ridiculous” and says that the decisions will hurt kids, young adults, and entire communities. Click the above headline for his comments.
The Battle of Delta County's first match-up of the high school girls tennis season was closely contested as always on Monday, as the Escanaba Eskymos beat the Gladstone Braves, 5-3, in Gladstone. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
