ISHPEMING — The West Iron County High School varsity volleyball team rolled through Ishpeming with ease at the Hematites' gym on Tuesday night. The Wykons won in straight sets 25-18, 25-13 and 25-17, completing the season sweep of Ishpeming in dual match play. The performance was backed ...
MANISTIQUE — The Manistique Emeralds continue to show their dominance. Facing a good Gwinn team for the second time this year, the Emeralds controlled most of the match to complete a 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-22) volleyball sweep here Tuesday. Trailing 9-8 in the opening set, Manistique’s ...
POWERS — The Superior Central volleyball team grounded the North Central Jets in a nip-and-tuck five-setter (15-25, 26-24, 20-25, 25-13, 15-13) here Tuesday as the Jets fell short of getting their first win of the season. It all came down to the fifth set. North Central came out quick with a ...
BAY CITY — Northern Michigan University swimmer Rachel Helm has had a stellar college career so far, and on Tuesday, she added another award to her trophy shelf as she was named GLIAC Women's Swim and Dive Athlete of the Week. This the first time she's won the award this year and sixth ...
FLAT ROCK — The Ishpeming boys continued a season-long trend on Monday when they captured the Mid-Peninsula Conference cross country title with 23 points. Ishpeming, as it has all year, ran as a pack and grabbed five of the top seven places. Runner-up Gladstone scored 46 points, followed by ...
MARQUETTE — Sophomore forward Vincent de Mey of the Northern Michigan University hockey team was named Forward of the Week by the WCHA on Monday. He had a three-point weekend with two goals and an assist in the Wildcats’ season-opening home split with the Big 10’s Michigan State on ...
POWERS — Sometimes in volleyball all you need is a little bit of momentum. That proved to be the case here Monday as Munising overcame a sluggish start to win the first set and carry that momentum to a three-set sweep of North Central. The Mustangs won 26-24, 25-19, 25-17. MHS (3-8) ...
UPSSA High School Football Polls ----------------- This week’s U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association poll (with first-place votes, if any, record, total votes and last week’s poll position): ----------------- Large Schools 1. Escanaba (6) 6-1 34 1 2. Calumet ...
"Every shutout is a team shutout and I think (Saturday night was) a pretty good example of that." — John Hawthorne, NMU freshman goalie, on not allowing a goal in his first collegiate start ---------------- MARQUETTE — After Friday night’s season-opening loss to Michigan State, ...
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HOUGHTON — The Michigan Tech Huskies did it again. On Saturday, for the 10th year in a row, they defeated the Northern Michigan University Wildcats 24-20 at Kearly Stadium. The coveted Miner’s Cup stays in the Copper Country. Michigan Tech head coach Steve Olson said before the game ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University swimming and diving teams pulled off a clean sweep over the weekend with both women’s and men’s teams winning their Friday and Saturday home meets at the PEIF pool over Findlay by at least 50 points in each meet. The Wildcat women won 169-85 ...
HARRIS — After an explosive and muddy first half, a waterlogged defensive duel decided the outcome as Bark River-Harris held down Manistique to win 20-6 on Friday in a West PAC Iron Division contest. The Broncos were first on the board with a breakout 60-yard rush from Clayton Eichhorn with ...
HOUGHTON — Freshman Isabelle Brusilow scored her first collegiate goal with less than three minutes left in regulation to lift Northern Michigan University to a 3-2 victory over Michigan Tech in a women’s college soccer game played Sunday afternoon at Tech’s Kearly Stadium. Though both ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette broke a nearly decade-long losing streak to Menominee with a rousing comeback in a high school football game played Friday night. The Redmen spotted Menominee a 21-0 lead before starting their comeback in the second quarter and eventually winning 28-21. Marquette ...
MARQUETTE — Ray DesJardins is having a career year at the Marquette Golf Club, at least on par-3 holes. The club member recorded his second hole-in-one in six weeks and fourth of his career on Thursday at the Greywalls course. DesJardins used a 9-iron to ace the 94-yard third hole and ...
MARQUETTE — Despite breaking a four-game scoreless streak, the Northern Michigan University men’s soccer team lost its fifth straight, a 4-2 setback at home to Wisconsin-Parkside on Saturday afternoon. After the Rangers’ Todor Atlija made it 1-0 in the 13th minute, NMU’s scoreless ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University volleyball team picked up its second three-set sweep in its last three matches on Saturday afternoon as it dispatched Wayne State 25-19, 25-14, 25-21. The Wildcats led for most of match, including throughout the latter stages of each set, to ...
ROMEOVILLE, Illinois — Freshman Madison Malon paced Northern Michigan University at the Conference Crossover women’s cross country meet on Saturday at Lewis University. This largest NCAA Division II-only meet in the country featured 36 teams with the Wildcats placing 16th on a brisk day ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University head coach Grant Potulny said after Friday night's loss to Michigan State, that if a team holds their opponent to less than 25 shots, it's an indicator that you're usually going to win. On Saturday, there was no usually about it as the Wildcats held ...