"As great of players as they were in high school, when they get to this level, they don’t understand that there are two ends to the court." — Troy Mattson, NMU women’s head basketball coach, on adjustments freshmen players must make -------------------- MARQUETTE — Last weekend ...
MARQUETTE — For the third time this season, a Northern Michigan University swimmer has been honored with a GLIAC weekly award. Junior Ondrej Zach earned his second GLIAC Men’s Swim & Dive Athlete of the Week of the season after he won three events in a home meet against ...
Yikes, I don’t know if I talked myself out of some obvious picks or what, but a 3-10 record last week doesn’t exactly make me a persuasive pigskin prognosticator, does it? So back to the drawing board with these picks. As I’m spending so much time on research, there won’t be a long ...
ESCANABA — The Bay de Noc Community College softball team will hold five sessions at its Prospect Camp on Sunday, Nov. 24, in Wells. Sessions start at 9 a.m. for players in grades 9-12 at the Wells Sports Complex. They include ones that stress skills and drills for catchers, hitters, ...
MARQUETTE — The old cliche says that defense wins championships. To pull off that goal, the Northern Michigan University hockey team will have to be better in that facet of the game. Offense is definitely not an issue as the No. 18-ranked Wildcats are firing in nearly four goals — 3.90 to ...
ESCANABA — The Manistique Emeralds simply refused to lose. After blowing an 18-11 lead in the third set to fall behind 2-1, the Emeralds flexed their muscle in Set 4 and then rallied from an early 4-0 hole in Set 5 to outlast the Calumet Copper Kings 3-2 (25-23, 19-25, 21-25, 25-11, 15-13) ...
ISHPEMING — It was quite the season for that little school in Rock. Not only did Mid Peninsula defeat three opponents for the first time in program history, but the Wolverines also claimed their first district volleyball title with a straight-set win over Rapid River. The most impressive ...
ISHPEMING — Being that Tuesday night’s volleyball match between Wakefield-Marenisco and Jeffers was a rematch of last year’s five-set thriller in the district semifinals, things were bound to be just as entertaining this time around. Especially since the stakes were even higher, the two ...
ISHPEMING — Ishpeming High School will play Beal City in a Division 8 regional championship football game at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mount Pleasant Community Field, located about 10 miles from the Aggies’ home. Beal City is 10-1 and has 68.000 playoff points, giving it the right to host this ...
BIG RAPIDS — Westwood High School graduate Katie Etelamaki, a senior cross country runner at Ferris State University, has been selected to compete at the NCAA Division II national championship meet. This will be her second consecutive year at the nationals after she earned All-American ...
HANCOCK — The area’s two representatives on the Finlandia men’s basketball team both scored in double figures but it wasn’t enough to avert a 90-74 loss to visiting Lakeland on Tuesday night at the Paavo Nurmi Center. Sophomore Joe Heinonen of Superior Central registered a ...
Up next: Alaska-Fairbanks at NMU, 7 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday; Radio: WUPT The Point 100.3 FM ------------------- MARQUETTE — The No. 18 Northern Michigan University hockey team, with the eighth-best scoring offense in NCAA Division II, had two of its forwards recognized by the ...
MIDLAND — The Northern Michigan University men’s soccer team matched its second-highest scoring output of the season, but it wasn’t enough in the GLIAC Tournament opening-round quarterfinals that featured plenty of snow and cold on Monday afternoon. Playing at its home field in Midland, ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University used the friendly waters of the PEIF pool to defeat Wisconsin-Stevens Point by decisive margins Saturday in both men’s and women’s meets. The NMU teams are off until Thursday, Dec. 5, when they travel to Grand Rapids for the three-day Calvin ...
MARQUETTE — Senior Day is typically a time for celebration, but Ferris State spoiled the Northern Michigan University volleyball team’s special occasion Saturday at Vandament Arena as the Bulldogs defeated the Wildcats 3-1. A day earlier, however, NMU insured its participation in the ...
MARQUETTE — Cardinals don’t normally fly very high, or for very long, in real life. But the Northern Michigan University football team made it look like they could Saturday as the Saginaw Valley State offense torched the Wildcats defense for six first-half touchdowns, four on long plays ...
"We ran it against them in the first game and we were successful again." — George Niemi, Ishpeming football head coach, on playing a no-huddle offense vs. Lake Linden-Hubbell ----------------- ISHPEMING — Had you looked at Ishpeming’s record through the first five weeks of the season, ...
ALLENDALE — Northern Michigan University did something Sunday that no other GLIAC women’s soccer team did all season, but it wasn’t enough from being eliminated in the opening-round quarterfinals of the conference tournament. The Wildcats put a goal in on No. 1 seed Grand Valley State, ...
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Senior Katelyn Smith earned all-region cross country honors as the Northern Michigan University women finished 11th among 32 teams at the NCAA Midwest Regional on Saturday. Hosted by Southern Indiana University, the Wildcats scored 286 points, finishing ahead of seven ...
LEBANON, Ill. — The Northern Michigan University men’s basketball team began the Matt Majkrzak era with a split of two games at the GLIAC-Great Lakes Valley Conference Challenge at McKendree University in Illinois. The Wildcats defeated Lewis 76-63 before falling to host McKendree ...