Three-time All-State basketball player Foster Wonders of Iron Mountain announced Monday that he will attend school and play basketball at Southern Illinois University in 2021-22, an NCAA Division One school in the Missouri Valley Conference. Click the above headline for more.
The Gladstone Indians U19 baseball team swept a doubleheader from the Eastern U.P. Wood Ducks on Sunday, 14-5 and 9-8, to wrap up a busy weekend of baseball. On Saturday, the Indians beat Ashwaubenon, Wis., 5-4, and lost to Menominee, 12-5. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and video highlights.
The Upper Peninsula High School Football All-Star Game, which had been postponed from June until August 1 at the Superior Dome, has been cancelled. The announcement came Saturday night amidst a recent uptick in coronavirus cases. Click the above headline for detais.
The Escanaba Cubs Under-19 baseball team broke a six-game losing streak on Saturday with a 2-1 win over Sheboygan, Wis., Post 83 at Al Ness Field. Riley Lamb's walk-off double was the game-winner in the eighth inning. Then the Cubs went on to beat Sault Ste. Marie, 4-1. Click the above headline to see photos, video highlights.
The Escanaba Cubs Under-19 baseball team made five errors and had trouble getting hits with men in scoring position Friday night and lost to Sheboygan Post 83 out of Wisconsin, 10-4, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for details, photos.
The Iron Mountain-Kingsford-Norway u19 baseball team scored three runs in each of the first two innings and cruised past the Gladstone Indians, 6-2, Thursday night at Iron Mountain's Liuna Field. Click the above headline to read the game details.
Caleb Johnson pitched eight innings of two-hit relief in 90-degree heat on Wednesday as the Iron Mountain-Kingsford-Norway U19 Baseball team topped the Bark River Bucs, 8-3, in a nine-inning game. Click the above headline for details, photos.
The Marquette Blues took a 5-0 lead in the first inning and held off the Escanaba Cubs, 8-5, in an Upper Peninsula u19 baseball game Wednesday night in Marquette. The Blues also won the second game, 5-3. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Indians built a 7-0 lead Tuesday night and held on for a 7-6 win over the Escanaba Cubs in a U-19 Upper Peninsula baseball game in Gladstone. Escanaba won the junior contest, 13-4. Click the above headline for details on both games.
Upper Peninsula u19 baseball Monday night. Iron Mountain defeated Escanaba, 8-1. Jesse Julian had two doubles, a single, and drove in a run. Hunter McCarthy had two hits and two RBI and Caleb Johnson earned the win on the mound. Grant LaMarche had a double and RBI for Escanaba. Riley Lamb added two hits for the Cubs.
The 73rd Annual Michigan-Wisconsin Tennis Open will be held on August 1st and 2nd on area courts in Escanaba. Click the above headline to read details.
The Upper Peninsula International Raceway held its second week of races Friday night in Escanaba. The racers and fans in attendance thanked our veterans as part of Veterans Night at the races as the Independence Day weekend kicked off in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
The Gladstone Indians did the little things right Thursday night and posted an easy 7-1 win over the Escanaba Cubs in Upper Peninsula u19 Baseball League game. The junior game was won by Escanaba, 10-4. Click the above headline for details on both games, photos, videos.
Blake Henriksen turned in a dominating pitching performance Thursday night for the Marquette Blues U19 Upper Peninsula baseball team, throwing a two-hitter as the Blues shut down Iron Mountain, 3-0, at Liuna Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Cubs got clutch pitching and timely hitting Wednesday night to beat the Menominee Red Wave, 8-2, in a Upper Peninsula U19 Baseball League game in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association responded on Wednesday to Governor Gretchen Whitmer's press conference from the day before that it move fall sports like football and volleyball to the spring to preserve social distancing. Click the above headline to see the response from MHSAA Director Mark Uyl.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer is calling on the Michigan High School Athletic Association to move certain fall sports to next spring where social distancing is not possible. Her comments on Tuesday seemed aimed at football and volleyball, although she did not name them specifically. Click the above headline for the governor's comments.
The Marquette Blues outslugged the Menominee Red Wave, 11-6, Monday night, to break Menominee's season-opening 11-game winning streak. Also Monday, Gladstone rallied to beat Bark River in extra innings and Escanaba scored two late runs to beat Coleman in northern Wisconsin. Click the above headline to read details.
The Upper Peninsula u19 Baseball League continued with games on Sunday in Iron Mountain and Menominee. At Spies Field, the Menominee Red Wave swept the Eastern U.P. Wood Ducks from the Soo, 1-0 and 11-0, to stay undefeated on the season. And at LiUna Field, the Iron Mountain-Kingsford-Norway team beat the Copper Country Flames twice, 6-1 and 7-2. Click the above headline to see CC Flames photos taken by Kalee Parisot.
The Escanaba Cubs and Bark River Bucs played two games that went down to the wire Friday night, with Escanaba winning both. The Junior Cubs won, 10-9, and the senior Cubs eeked out a 1-0 win. Click the above headline to read details, see photos, videos.
The Gladstone Indians picked up their first Upper Peninsula Baseball League win Thursday night, beating the Marquette Blues, 6-5. Zach Hanson walked with the bases loaded to win the game. Click the above headline for photos, videos taken by Ginny Krouth.
In the Upper Peninsula baseball league Wednesday night, the Marquette Blues had their home opening doubleheader against the Bark River Bucs. In the opener, the blues held off the Bucs, 4-3, and then scored nine runs in the third inning of the nightcap to win going away, 12-2. Click the above headline to read game details.
Girls from Rapid River and Bark River-Harris got together for a fun game of softball Monday night in Rapid River. Click the above headline for details, photos, video clips.
The Menominee Red Wave jumped to an 8-0 lead and rolled past the Gladstone Indians, 12-4, in an Upper Peninsula u-19 baseball contest Sunday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Escanaba Cubs Under-19 baseball team beat Negaunee, 11-1, in Sunday's first game at Al Ness Field, but lost a tough 8-7 decision to the Copper Country Flames later in the day. The Flames played Iron Mountain earlier in the day and had a comeback fall short, 11-8. Click the above headline for photos, videos from the action.
There will be no Upper Peninsula u19 baseball games played on Saturday as the rain is expected to last all day long. The plan now is to play six games on Sunday, with a different schedule than was previously planned. Game times in Escanaba, Gladstone, and at Bay College will be 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Click the above headline to see the new schedule.
The Escanaba Cubs scored six runs in the first inning to build a big lead, then had to hang on at the end to beat the Bark River Bucs, 9-7, in the Cubs' season opener Friday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
Kyle Frusti's two-run single capped a four-run bottom of the seventh inning as the Marquette Blues stunned the Gladstone Indians, 7-6, Friday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos from the game.
The Bark River Bucs hosted the first baseball games in Delta County Wednesday night, turning back a young Niagara, Wis., team, 14-2 and 20-3 in a pair of mercy-shortened games. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The reconstituted Central Collegiate Hockey Association, which will begin play in the 2021-22 season, has named Don Lucia as Commissioner, the seven member schools announced Wednesday. Click the above headline to read details.
