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Up and down the lists

MARQUETTE — There was some movement by area teams in the second week of the Upper Peninsula high school football polls released on Tuesday by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. That shouldn’t be unexpected as teams won’t reach the halfway point of the regular season ...

Miners make only rise by U.P. team in volleyball polls

IRONWOOD — Negaunee made the only move up by any team in this week’s Upper Peninsula high school volleyball polls released Monday and conducted by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. The only move in either the Divisions 1-3 or Division 4 rankings from Week 1 to Week 2 occurred when the Miners leapfrogged Houghton for No. 3 in D 1-3. Negaunee improved to 12-4 by winning five of six matches in the past week, including three victories at the downstate Kingsley Invitational on Sept. 12, and later regular match triumphs over Escanaba and Houghton. Gwinn couldn’t ...

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Today High school girls tennis Mid-Peninsula Conference tournament, at Iron Mountain, 10 a.m. EDT: Negaunee, Westwood, Munising, Iron Mountain Marquette at Great Northern Conference meet, at Marquette, 10 a.m. (tentative) High school girls & boys cross country Marquette, Negaunee, Ishpeming, Munising, Superior Central, Newberry at El Harger Invitational, at Pictured Rocks Golf Club, Munising, 4 p.m. Thursday High school girls & boys cross country Negaunee, Ishpeming, Westwood at Tracy Strom Invitational/West PAC meet #2, at Al Quaal Recreation Area, Ishpeming, 4 ...

Rivals clash tonight: NMU volleyball team hosts Tech at Vandament Arena

MARQUETTE — Maybe the fans of the Northern Michigan University volleyball team will be trying to make Michigan Tech feel right at home tonight in the Wildcats’ Vandament Arena. The NMU athletic department is touting the 6 p.m. match as the White Out, encouraging fans to wear white as a ...

Ex-NMU champ Hiller, ex-Wings coach Babcock back in NHL

Mike Babcock last coached an NHL game in November 2019. His biggest accomplishments in the sport so far were guiding Canada to gold at the Olympics in 2010 and 2014 and the Detroit Red Wings to the Stanley Cup in 2008. All these years later, the Edmonton Oilers are turning to Babcock to be ...

Wildcat women’s soccer not fazed by change of field

RACINE, Wis. — Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays the couriers of the women’s soccer team at Northern Michigan University. At least the rain part was true on Sunday afternoon when the Wildcats had a quick change of field due to wet conditions and still defeated ...