---------------- GWINN — Aaron Adriano knocked two home runs over the fence and the Marquette County Mavericks put on an offensive show with a 14-2 victory over Congress Pizza in a Superiorland Baseball League game at the Forsyth Township Ball Field in Gwinn on Monday night. In other ...
GLADSTONE — Playing an opportunist’s role paid off for Kingsford in on Monday in a 6-1 victory over Birmingham in the quarterfinals of the Little League baseball Majors state tournament held at Don Howes Family Field. Following back-to-back home runs by Evan Johnson and Riley Juneau in ...
ISHPEMING — The annual open board meeting of the Marquette County U.S. Bowling Congress Association has been moved back to Wednesday, Aug. 2. The site and time will remain the same from its original schedule of this week — 7 p.m. at River Rock Lanes in Ishpeming. Five spots on the board ...
ESCANABA — The 70th annual Michigan-Wisconsin Tennis Open is scheduled for the weekend of Aug. 5-6 in Escanaba. There will be 10 singles divisions spanning youth through adults and 12 divisions for doubles based upon age and skill level. Singles play will be Saturday and doubles ...
OCONOMOWOC, Wisconsin — Recent Carney-Nadeau High School graduate Hunter Eichhorn climbed into a tie for 10th place at the 117th annual Wisconsin State Amateur Golf Championships in suburban Milwaukee on Thursday. After finishing the four-day event with a 1-under-par 69, he came in at 283, ...
NEGAUNEE — The forecast didn’t look promising Sunday for the second annual Buffalo Road Invitational basketball tournament. It started to rain mid-morning and the court was drenched. However, the tournament still went on as planned and even though the turnout wasn’t as large as last ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Delanie Rhoades joined four boys in shooting 29 during the fourth weekly Marquette Junior Golf Five-Hole tournament held July 14 at the Northern Michigan University Golf Course in Chocolay Township. Rhoades particiapted in the second flight, while the ...
The fifth annual Red Earth Classic took place Saturday with start and finish lines at Jackson Park in Negaunee. The event consisted of eight races, four on mountain bikes and four on foot, consisting of circuits on wooded trails ranging from one mile running for children to the 32-mile ...
Millennials have become America’s punching bag. Whenever something bad happens or goes away, my generation is always somehow to blame. So far, we’ve been accused of destroying the wine industry, the diamond industry, napkin companies, breakfast cereals, bars of soap, gymnasiums, grocery ...
By Journal Sports Staff HANCOCK — The Marquette Blues were the last of the Marquette County teams to be eliminated from the American Legion baseball Michigan Zone 5 Class A tournament on Saturday. The Blues lost an eight-inning, 5-4 decision to the Escanaba Cubs in the consolation bracket ...
By Journal Sports Staff ISHPEMING — Chelsea Roberts hit a grand slam home run and teammates Chelsey Robinson, Heidi Verville and Toni Tikkanen each homered to power AAA Insurance to a 24-18 win over Jack’s TeePee 2 in a Class C game of the Iron Range Women’s Softball League on June ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Mikaila Graham was named top defensive player for Royal Blue in its game against Neon Orange during a Under-19 Coed division game of the Superiorland Soccer Association on July 10. These are the available goal scorers from that day: Neon Yellow — ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Lea Whalen and Tanner Annala shot the low rounds of the day, each with 40, during Week 4 on July 11 of the Nine-Hole Division in Marquette County Junior Golf at the Marquette Golf Club. Here are top three finishers in each flight, in order from first ...
Mon. Men & Women Seniors — Darrell Olson 248-641, Vicki Ostlund 224-521; Mark Stuart 212, Chuck Pool 562, Vicki Ostlund 164-471; Jim Goloversic 212, Chuck Pool 556, Linda Chapman 154-402; Joe Duckworth 228-638, Mary Grobar 160, Vicki Ostlund 403; Glenn Hintsala 238, Chuck Pool 588, Vicki ...
By RYAN SPITZA For the Mining Journal NEGAUNEE — Tristan Miller delivered a double over the head of Ishpeming center fielder Carter Krook in the bottom of the fifth inning to give Negaunee the lead for good in the District 11 Little League Minors championship game Friday night. ...
"I was walking around town and people would ask me if I was bringing Buffalo Road back." — Doug Lindblom, organizer, Buffalo Road Invitational --------------- NEGAUNEE — After a successful first year, the Buffalo Road Invitational basketball tournament is back again. The 10-team, ...
HANCOCK — The Copper Country Flames took a narrow 4-3 lead over the Marquette Blues into an early-morning finish today in the state American Legion Zone 5 baseball tournament after their late game was called Thursday night due to darkness. Coach Ron Stimac’s home squad team broke a 1-1 ...
NEGAUNEE — Ishpeming defeated Penokee Range 12-5 on Thursday evening to advance to the championship round of the Little League baseball District 11 Minors Division tournament at Rivers Memorial Field in Negaunee. Other information on the game was not available. Coming out of the ...
NEGAUNEE — Deadline to sign up is tonight for the fifth annual Red Earth Classic mountain bike and foot races to be held in western Marquette County on Saturday morning and afternoon. For mountain bikes, there are the 32-mile Beast, 19-mile Loader, 12-mile Dozer and three-mile Junior ...