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Wildcats hockey desperately needs 2 wins this weekend

MARQUETTE — Desperate times call for desperate measures for the hockey team at Northern Michigan University. The Wildcats not only need two wins to have a chance to capture the Cappo Cup in their annual series against Lake Superior State, but need both those victories to get back in the ...

Wildcat men looking to catch up in GLIAC

MARQUETTE — For really the first time all season, the men’s basketball team at Northern Michigan University is playing catchup in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Wildcats fell out of a first-place tie they had maintained through much of January and February when ...

NMU women look to fend off Tech’s challenge

MARQUETTE — The women’s basketball team at Northern Michigan University has a pair of important games in the conference this week, starting with this afternoon’s home matchup with top Upper Peninsula rival Michigan Tech. The nationally ranked Wildcats host MTU at 5:30 p.m. today as the ...

Sports Look

Today High school gymnastics Marquette hosting meet, 3 p.m. (tentative) High school hockey MHSAA Division 3 regionals, at Lakeview Arena, Marquette: Marquette vs. Manistique-Kingsford winner, 6 p.m. MHSAA Division 3 regionals, at Escanaba: Negaunee-Sault Ste. Marie winner vs. ...

It’s not too late to begin

MARQUETTE — There’s a couple new kids in town, the “town” being the Upper Peninsula weekly high school basketball polls conducted by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. The new area teams in the polls both happen to be boys teams as they are in the final week of the ...

2 Marquette girls advance, 3 boys just miss at wrestling regionals

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Senior High School wrestling team had mixed results at a pair of individual MHSAA high school wrestling regionals held over the weekend. In a boys Division 2 regional held at Gaylord, three Sentinels boys came oh-so-close, just missing advancement. But they had two ...