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Sentinel swimmers ease into U.P. Finals with double victory

MARQUETTE — With the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Swimming and Diving Finals on tap today and Saturday, Marquette couldn’t have found a better way to ease into the biggest meet of the year than with victories over one of their closest rivals last week. The Sentinels defeated the Houghton girls ...

Soft snow hard on still-successful Sentinels skiers

RIPLEY — At least gravity was still working correctly at Mont Ripley for the Upper Peninsula Finals high school downhill ski meet. Tough, soft snow conditions made for slower and more difficult runs than normal for the final non-MHSAA tournament event of the season just outside of Houghton and Hancock, according to a email from Marquette Senior High School head coach Christy Provost detailing the meet. Nevertheless, the Sentinels continued their domination of U.P. meets, scoring a near-perfect 21 points in the girls meet — 20 would be considered a perfect, double top-four sweep ...

Sports Look

Today High school boys & girls bowling MHSAA Division 2 regionals, at Gaylord Bowling Center, Gaylord, time TBA: Marquette, Ishpeming-Negaunee, Calumet, Escanaba, Iron Mountain, Bay City Central, Bay City John Glenn, Bay City Western, Cadillac, Gaylord, Mount Pleasant and Petoskey MHSAA Division 3 regionals, at Spare Time Lanes, Cheboygan, time TBA: Westwood, Gladstone, Boyne City, Cheboygan, Clare, Elk Rapids, Gladwin, Grayling, Standish-Sterling, Tawas and West Branch Ogemaw Heights MHSAA Division 4 regionals, at Thunder Bowl Lanes, Alpena, time TBA: L’Anse, Bellaire, ...

Area teams taste success

NEGAUNEE — Seniors made their special night count for the Negaunee High School girls basketball team when the Miners defeated Marquette 48-27 on Friday evening at Lakeview Memorial Gymnasium. Head coach Mike O’Donnell started all four of his seniors — Kayleigh Manninen, Aleana Park, ...

High school basketball

Upper Peninsula scores BOYS Monday Bark River-Harris 48, West Iron County 44 Bessemer 57, Chassell 30 Dollar Bay 69, Lake Linden-Hubbell 36 Harbor Springs Harbor Light Christian 87, Maplewood Baptist 61 Ironwood 64, Ewen-Trout Creek 24 Marquette 79, Sault Ste. Marie 38 Mellen, Wis., 86, Watersmeet 18 North Dickinson 73, Rapid River 49 Westwood 54, Gladstone 49 Cedarville at Burt Lake Northern Michigan Christian, ccd. Mid Peninsula at Stephenson, ccd. Tuesday Baraga 66, Chassell 31 Bark River-Harris 65, Manistique 63 Bessemer 53, Ewen-Trout Creek ...

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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. Escanaba, 6:30 p.m. High school girls basketball Rapid River at Munising, 6 p.m. Stephenson at Superior Central, 6 p.m. Manistique at Newberry, 7:15 p.m. Baraga at Bessemer, 7:30 p.m. EST High school boys basketball Houghton at Westwood, 7:15 p.m. Menominee at Negaunee, 7:15 p.m. Ironwood ...