EBEN — The Superior Central girls haven’t had the luxury of playing with a lead too many times this basketball season. They were able to achieve that Saturday afternoon, however, in a 43-28 conquest of the Brimley Bays. This marked the first victory this season for the Cougars, who ...
REPUBLIC — Jake Carlson scored 23 points to lead the Republic-Michigamme boys basketball team to a 55-44 victory over Lake Linden-Hubbell on Monday night. Carlson sank 6 of 8 free throws, twice what the Lakes as a whole did at the line (3 of 4). As a team, the Hawks made 20 of 33 free ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School swept a triangular swimming and diving meet at home against two of the other traditional powerhouses in the Upper Peninsula on Saturday. The Redettes scored 150 points in the girls meet as Houghton accumulated 109 points and Sault Ste. Marie 68. For ...
MARQUETTE — The seventh annual Muffin Runners Santa Run will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday starting at the Marquette Commons on South Third Street. Runners will wear Santa and various holiday running apparel, Santa hats, antlers and elf costumes to help spread the holiday spirit. All are ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University senior defenseman Jordan Klimek won his second WCHA weekly award in three weeks when he was named Defensive Player of the Week following the Wildcats’ home sweep of Ferris State last weekend. The only weekly awards he’s won in his collegiate ...
"As a coach you can kind of sense that kind of emotion and that buzz and they played like it." — Bill Sall, head coach, NMU men’s basketball ---------------- MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University men’s basketball team will go into the holiday break with a perfect 5-0 record ...
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MARQUETTE — Taylor Hodell’s 17 points weren’t enough as the Northern Michigan University women’s basketball team fell to No. 15 Michigan Tech 59-56 at the Berry Events Center on Sunday. The Wildcats are 6-6 overall and 2-3 in the GLIAC. NMU head coach Troy Mattson said free throws ...
KEARNS, Utah — Four years ago, Jessica Kooreman qualified for the Olympics on the first day of the team trials. This time, she went into her last race with everything still up in the air. Kooreman clinched one of the final three Olympic team spots at the U.S. short track speedskating trials ...
MARQUETTE — Westwood had the best finish of any area team at the Marquette Challenge high school wrestling tournament held at Marquette Senior High School all day Saturday. The Patriots accumulated 39 points to finish 12th among 21 teams listed at the website ...
By RYAN SPITZA Journal Sports Writer MARQUETTE — Nearly two dozen teams gathered at Marquette Senior High School Saturday for the annual Marquette Challenge wrestling meet. A total of 22 teams from both the Upper and Lower peninsulas along with Wisconsin made the annual trek to ...
MARQUETTE — It isn’t easy to sweep a team twice in a season, but the Northern Michigan University hockey team made it look that way Saturday night. Northern sophomore Darien Craighead pumped in three goals for his second hat trick of the season as the Wildcats took down Ferris State 4-2. ...
The Pontiac Silverdome is no more. What was once the largest stadium in the NFL, the structure finally crumbled to the ground a couple of weeks ago. It didn’t go without a fight, though, as it withstood the first demolition blast before finally succumbing the following day to a second ...
KEARNS, Utah — J.R. Celski and Katherine Reutter-Adamek are favorites heading into the U.S. short track speedskating trials. They’re both trying to make one more Olympic team in careers that have been interrupted and, in Reutter-Adamek’s case, cut short by injuries. Celski, a former ...
"We were hitting shots from all over the place." — Kurt Corcoran, head coach, Westwood girls basketball ------------------ ISHPEMING — Westwood coach Kurt Corcoran is looking to bottle a little of his team’s offense from Thursday night. The Patriots shot a blistering 63 percent ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School may have won the battle but ultimately lost the war with Hancock in a high school hockey game played at Lakeview Arena on Thursday night. The Redmen kept the Bulldogs’ two big scorers, Alex Nordstrom and Ted Randell, from scoring any points, but ...
ST. NICHOLAS — A 3-point attempt by Mid Peninsula’s Terry Brower was off the mark as the Republic-Michigamme boys’ basketball team held on for a 40-37 victory over the Wolverines on Thursday night. “We played good defense and I knew we had to keep them around 40 (points) if we wanted ...
IRON RIVER — West Iron County pitched a first-quarter shutout en route to a 68-38 high school boys basketball victory over L’Anse on Thursday night. The Wykons led 16-0 after the first quarter and extended it to 21-0 before the Purple Hornets got on the board. “We didn’t want to ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University Nordic ski team returns to Houghton for the second straight weekend, this time for the two-day MTU Open on hosted by Michigan Tech. Sprint events will be held Saturday and freestyle on Sunday at the MTU Trails. On Sunday at the same place, the ...
POWERS (AP) — An Upper Peninsula school that holds the Michigan record for most basketball victories in a row is starting over. After 84 consecutive wins, the boys at North Central lost last week for the first time since 2014. The Jets returned to their home gym Thursday night and defeated ...