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Miners girls dominant at Flivver Invite track

KINGSFORD — The Negaunee High School girls track team ran, threw and leapt to a dominating victory at the Flivver Invitational on Thursday in Kingsford. The Miners were so transcendent that their 191 points was more than the combined total of the other four teams — the host Flivvers, Westwood, Ishpeming and Iron Mountain had scores that added up to only 150. Kingsford was runner-up with 75, Westwood had 34, Ishpeming 31 and IM 10. The boys meet was much closer with the Flivvers scoring 130 to 107 1/2 for Negaunee. Westwood was third with 59, then Ishpeming with 39 1/2 and IM ...

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Today High school softball Negaunee at Alpena Quad tournament, time TBA Marquette at possible game/tournament, 9 a.m. (tentative) High school girls soccer Marquette at Suttons Bay, 11 a.m. High school baseball Hancock at Negaunee (doubleheader), noon Westwood at Newberry (doubleheader), 1 p.m. Sunday NMU events Women’s lacrosse: GLIAC finals, at Grand Valley State, Allendale, vs. Grand Valley or Davenport, noon (only if NMU won Friday) Monday High school girls & boys golf Marquette hosting meet, 1 p.m. (tentative) Manistique at Munising, 4 p.m. High ...

Negaunee piling up boys tennis wins, this one 8-0 over Pats

ISHPEMING — The Negaunee High School boys tennis team keeps rolling after a first-week scare last week when the Miners played Kingsford to a 4-4 tie at the Flivvers’ court. Otherwise, this Negaunee team has been just about perfect, like they were in an 8-0 shutout of Westwood at the Patriots’ courts on Thursday afternoon. The Miners (6-0-1) didn’t lose a set as they dropped just 24 games over the eight matches. “In a short season, you have about two weeks to be young and inexperienced,” Negaunee veteran head coach Kyle Saari said about the typical spring sports season. ...

Miners, Sentinels sweep tennis twinbills

NEGAUNEE — Negaunee and Marquette each swept a doubleheader of high school boys tennis meets without losing a single match in any of them on Wednesday. The Miners remained at home to defeat both Ishpeming and Munising 8-0, while the Sentinels hit the road, venturing into Delta County to take on next-door neighbors Gladstone and Escanaba and also coming away with a pair of 8-0 whitewashes. Marquette is off until Monday, when it travel to Kingsford at 4:30 p.m. EDT, while Negaunee doesn’t play again until Tuesday, when it hosts Gladstone at 4 p.m. Marquette and Negaunee square off ...

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Today High school softball Marquette at Sault Ste. Marie (doubleheader), 2 p.m. Westwood at Manistique (doubleheader), 4 p.m. Gwinn at Calumet (doubleheader), 4 p.m. Negaunee at Cheboygan (doubleheader), 4 p.m. Gogebic at L’Anse (doubleheader), 4 p.m. Lake Linden-Hubbell at Baraga (doubleheader), 4 p.m. High school boys & girls track & field Marquette, Gwinn, Ishpeming at Eskymo Invitational, at Escanaba, 1:30 p.m. Munising, Superior Central, Manistique, Bark River-Harris at Rapid River Invitational, 2:30 p.m. High school boys tennis Gwinn at Westwood, 4 ...