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NMU men look to stay in thick of GLIAC soccer race

MARQUETTE — Just two games into the conference season, the men’s soccer team at Northern Michigan University will make its longest road trip of the fall this weekend. The Wildcats head south to Chicago to take on Roosevelt at 4 p.m. EDT today, then head west to St. Cloud, Minnesota, to ...

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Today High school volleyball Baraga at Dollar Bay, 5:45 p.m. High school football Escanaba at Marquette, 7 p.m. (Fox Sports 99.9 & 105.1 FM) Hancock at Negaunee, 7 p.m. (WKQS 101.9 FM) Gogebic at Ishpeming, 7 p.m. (WRUP 98.3 FM) Gwinn at L’Anse, 7 p.m. Ironwood at Munising, 7 p.m. (WQXO 97.7 FM & 1400 AM) Westwood at Gladstone, 7 p.m. (WZAM 106.9 FM & 970 AM) Superior Central at Pellston, 7 p.m. Newberry at Pickford, 7 p.m. (WNBY 1450 AM) Manistique at Iron Mountain, 7 p.m. EDT (WTIQ 1490 AM) NMU events Women’s soccer: at Wayne State, Detroit, 3 ...

Pietila paces NMU women golfers at Warrior Invite

WASHINGTON, Mich. — The women’s golf team at Northern Michigan University finished ninth among 14 teams at the Warrior Invitational held in suburban Detroit on Monday and Tuesday. With half the field made up of teams from NMU’s Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, the ...

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 ...

Going the distance: NMU volleyball prevails again in 5-setter vs. Tech

MARQUETTE — Five is the maximum number of sets in a college volleyball match. But for the Northern Michigan University and Michigan Tech teams, it seems to have become the minimum when they face each other. For the fourth straight time spanning all or parts of three seasons, the Wildcats ...

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 ...