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Marquette boys, girls get job done at MHSAA ski regionals

BELMONT — The usual suspects will likely be the favorites to win state championships in MHSAA Division 1 skiing coming up in less than two weeks. Marquette and two Traverse City schools — Central and West — swept the top-three team positions in both boys and girls meets at the D-1 regional held at the Cannonsburg Ski Hill just outside Grand Rapids on Monday. Those top-three team finishers get automatic qualification for their entire squads at the state finals set for Boyne Mountain in Boyne Falls on Monday, Feb. 23. And one of those three schools can usually be counted on to ...

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Today High school hockey Negaunee at Gaylord, 6 p.m. Hancock at Marquette, 6:30 p.m. High school boys basketball Marquette at Negaunee, 6 p.m. Calumet at Gwinn, 7:15 p.m. Dollar Bay at Baraga, 7:15 p.m. L’Anse at West Iron County, 7:15 p.m. EST Ishpeming at Munising, 7:30 p.m. High school girls basketball Menominee at Westwood, 7:15 p.m. Marquette at Negaunee, 7:30 p.m. NMU events Hockey: at Ferris State, Big Rapids, 7 p.m. Women’s lacrosse: vs. Calvin, at Superior Dome, 5 p.m. Women’s & men’s nordic skiing: CCSA conference championships (skate ...

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Upper Peninsula scores BOYS Monday Dollar Bay 41, Calumet 32 Escanaba 65, Manistique 55 Ojibwe Charter 79, Mackinac Island 45 Ontonagon 74, Watersmeet 26 Pickford 59, Sault Ste. Marie 47 Wakefield-Marenisco 68, Ewen-Trout Creek 51 Tuesday Baraga 73, Watersmeet 26 Bark River-Harris 57, Carney-Nadeau 43 Big Bay de Noc 42, Mid Peninsula 39 Calumet 42, Chassell 36 Engadine 69, Superior Central 50 Ewen-Trout Creek 44, Hancock 21 Forest Park 71, Norway 34 Grand Marais 56, Paradise 27 Ishpeming 62, West Iron County 44 Kingsford 47, Iron Mountain 36 L’Anse ...

Marquette edges Soo, Patriots fall

SAULT STE. MARIE — The Marquette Senior High School girls basketball team picked up its third win in four games by traveling to Sault Ste. Marie and defeating the Blue Devils 53-51 on Tuesday evening. Avery Osborne continued lighting up the scoreboard for the Sentinels, on this night to the tune of 23 points, to hand the Soo just their third loss of the season. MSHS (5-10), which also defeated Westwood 57-40 on Jan. 29 and Houghton 55-40 on Feb. 3, trailed 14-13 after one quarter in the Soo before surging forward to go up 22-18 at halftime and 39-35 after three quarters. In a ...

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Today High school wrestling MHSAA Division 4 team wrestling district tournament, at Gwinn: Norway vs. Iron Mountain, 6 p.m.; Gwinn vs. Norway-IM winner, 7:15 p.m. MHSAA Division 4 team wrestling district tournament, at Manistique: Manistique vs. Newberry, 5:30 p.m.; Rudyard vs. St. Ignace, 5:30 p.m.; championship, 7 p.m. High school girls basketball Munising at Superior Central, 6 p.m. Newberry at Engadine, 6 p.m. Gwinn at Gladstone, 7:15 p.m. Ishpeming at Escanaba, 7:15 p.m. Dollar Bay at Baraga, 7:15 p.m. Houghton at L’Anse, 7:15 p.m. Manistique at Stephenson, ...

Marquette posts quintet of 4-time swim, dive winners

MARQUETTE — Five swimmers and divers each won four events for Marquette Senior High School as the Sentinels swamped Manistique at a high school boys and girls swimming and diving meet held at the MSHS pool on Friday. The Marquette girls prevailed 129-47 while the Sentinels boys were triumphant 119-44. MSHS has one more dual meet left, against Houghton at 3:30 p.m. today, before the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Finals are set for the Marquette pool on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21. “(We had) many great swims, lifetime and season best times,” Sentinels head coach Nate McFarren said ...