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Sentinels softball finishes regular season with sweep

MARQUETTE — Marquette swept a high school softball doubleheader at home against Menominee to finish its regular season on Wednesday. The Sentinels recorded 6-5 and 18-3 victories in preparation for today’s MHSAA Division 1 district tournament to be held at Traverse City West. After the two hometown schools, Central and West, square off at 10 a.m., Marquette takes on Alpena at noon. The winners play for the district championship at 2 p.m., also at TC West. The winner, as in all districts this week, advances to regional play next Saturday, for Marquette’s district that would be ...

With a full team, Broncos capture U.P. D-2 girls golf title

HOUGHTON — When Bark River-Harris has enough golfers for a team, they’ve become pretty tough to beat in the Upper Peninsula. The Broncos won a U.P. Finals title in girls golf two years ago but didn’t have enough golfers for a team score at last year’s championship tournament. This year, they did — and they made it two Division 2 championship trophies in three years on Wednesday at Portage Lake Golf Club just outside Houghton. They won convincingly; their score of 416 was a dozen strokes better than runner-up Cedarville-DeTour’s 428. Hancock was third with 442, Ironwood ...

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Today High school boys & girls track & field MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals, Division 1 at Kingsford, 10 a.m. EDT: Marquette, Negaunee, Westwood, Manistique, Calumet, Escanaba, Gladstone, Houghton, Kingsford, Menominee and Sault Ste. Marie MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals, Division 2 at Kingsford, 10 a.m. EDT: Gwinn, Munising, Bark River-Harris, Ewen-Trout Creek, Hancock, Iron Mountain, Ironwood, Jeffers, Norway, Pickford, Rudyard and West Iron County MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals, Division 3 at Kingsford, 10 a.m. EDT: Ishpeming, Republic-Michigamme, Superior Central, Baraga, L’Anse, ...

Hematites’ Weber wins title at U.P. Division 2 boys tennis

KINGSFORD — In the end, Wednesday’s final scoreboard in Kingsford read West Iron County 46, Ishpeming 28, Iron Mountain 20 for the top three teams. But that scoreline doesn’t show just how hard the Wykons had to work to capture their third straight MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals ...

Negaunee wins first-ever U.P. girls golf title

BARK RIVER — The Negaunee girls golf team enjoyed a historic Wednesday at Sage Run Golf Course. The Miners carded 383 to win the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals in Division 1 girls golf by 24 strokes — with the championship the program’s first ever after previous runner-up finishes in ...