A Gladstone High School graduate had a breakout year as a freshman in college football, and now he’s looking to expand his opportunities heading into this upcoming season. Christian Creten was the leading tackler for Finlandia University last season, and on Monday, he entered the NCAA Transfer Portal. Click the above headline to read details.
You can get rid of all of those returnable cans and bottles and help the Manistique High School wrestling team at the same time. You can drop them off at the Gonzalez home at 1019 Deer Street, and when stores start accepting returnables again, the team will return them and the money will be used to help to buy new gear for next season. You can also call 286-3978, and they'll pick up the returnables.
A member of the Marquette Senior High School hockey team has signed to play hockey in Canada. Jakob Peterson will become a member of the Drayton Valley Thunder of the Alberta Junior Hockey Association. Click the above headline for details.
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control voted to cancel 2020 spring sports regular-season competitions and the Tournament Series while allowing individual, virtual spring sports coaching to continue. Click the above headline for details.
The Radio Results Network is missing sports just as much as you are. So until the games begin again in the U.P., we will broadcast a different "classic" game every week on three of our radio stations, as well as on-line. Our first broadcast is scheduled for this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Click the above headline to see details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association announced on Monday that schools are being assigned to their divisions beforehand in football, rather than taking the state's top 256 teams and then breaking them down by division. The state also announced some schools are changing divisions in various sports. Click the above headline for details.
NJCAA Region 13 announced the All-Region Basketball Teams. Bay College's Christian Alexander and Kaitlyn Hardwick were recognized among the best players in the region. Click the above headline to read more and see video highlights from both players.
The folks who run some of the Upper Peninsula’s American Legion Baseball programs say they’re not giving up on playing baseball at some point this summer here in the U.P. It just won't be "legion ball". Click the above headline for details.
After conflicting reports last week from the American Legion baseball leadership, the word has come from Department of Michigan Chairman Barry Wood that the season has been cancelled. Click the above headline to read details.
A member of the Bay College men’s basketball team will continue to play the sport he loves. Luke Mattson said on Thursday that he has accepted an offer from the University of Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. Click the above headline to read his story.
The Detroit News is out with its high school girls basketball All-State Teams. Click the above headline to see who made the paper's list. (Pictured: Nicole Kamin).
Iron Mountain's Marcus Johnson and Foster Wonders were both named as Division Three First Team All-Staters on Tuesday by the Associated Press, while the U.P.'s Nick Edington and Ashton Janke were Division Four First Teamers and Carney-Nadeau's Brett LaFord was named to the D-4 Second Team. Click the above headline to read details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announced the All-U.P. boys basketball teams Monday night. Click the above headline to see the list.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announced the All-U.P. boys basketball teams Friday night. Click the above headline to see the list.
The Escanaba High School softball team will not get a chance to defend its back-to-back state championships as Michigan's high school sports seasons were cancelled Friday because of the coronavirus. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association decided on Friday to cancel the winter post-season tournaments that had been suspended, and has cancelled all spring sports seasons because of the coronavirus. Click the above headline to read details.
NMU-National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestler Spencer Woods had qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials, scheduled for this upcoming weekend. With the competition canceled, the Summer Olympics postponed until 2021, and his dream deferred, he has returned to his home state of Alaska. Woods is on self-quarantine, living in an Arctic oven tent with a wood stove until he can join his parents in their village. (NMU Photo Sandy Slater)
The Michigan Wrestling Association is praising the work of the best high school wrestling teams and individuals...off the mat. The Escanaba Eskymos were recognized for having the ninth-best team grade point average in the state in Division Two. The Westwood Patriots and five individuals were also honored. Click the above headline to read more.
Bay College Athletic Director Matt Johnson has announced that Matt Gregory has been hired as the Head Women's Basketball Coach. Gregory served as the interim coach for the end of the 2019-2020 season. Click the above headline to read more details.
Eight Upper Peninsula High School wrestlers are being honored for their success on the mat this winter. The Michigan Wrestling Association lists its All-State teams by grade level and by division. Click the above headline to read about the Yoopers and see videos.
Sault Ste. Marie High School graduate and University of Wisconsin hockey player Abby Roque has been named an All-American, along with Badgers teammate Daryl Watts. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of UW Athletics.
Norway Speedway is still planning to get the season of stock car racing under way on May 22nd. Click the above headline to read more about their plans.
An Upper Peninsula hockey player had his East Coast junior hockey season come and abrupt end, along with the rest of the sports world, with the emergence of the coronavirus. Click the above headline to read more about Bark River's Brayden Stannard.
Two members of the Bay College Norse baseball team are thousands of miles away from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Click the above headline to learn more about David Ibn Ezra and Nicolas Goebert, and their plans for dealing with the crisis.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association closed its East Lansing office on Tuesday as the coronavirus concerns continue. But there has been no change in the status of the high school sports seasons. Click the above headline to read more.
The Bay College Norse baseball and softball seasons officially came to an end on Monday with the NJCAA announcement that the spring sports seasons have been canceled due to the coronavirus. The organization had temporarily suspended the seasons on Friday. Click the above headline to hear interviews.
Six Marquette Redmen and one Escanaba Eskymo have been named to the Divison Two All-State teams by the Michigan High School Hockey Coaches Association. Click the above headline to see who made the teams, and hear interviews about their selections.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association has directed all member schools to suspend activities in all sports for all seasons – effective Monday, March 16 through at least Sunday, April 5. Click the above headline for details.
Tanner Halvorson threw a nine-inning two-hitter on Friday as the Bay College Norse blanked the Northwestern Minnesota Eagles, 3-0, in Fort Pierce, Fla. Halvorson's performance follows the no-hitter that he threw earlier in the week, and he struck out 16 batters for the seccond time. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse softball team finished the Florida trip on Friday by beating the Chesapeake Skip Jacks, 9-1, at Chain Of Lakes Park in Titusville, Fla. The Norse got a complete-game pitching performance from Eden Oswald as she scattered three base hits and struck out ten batters. Click the above headline to see photos taken by Brad Landis.
