Sports Look

August 26, 2026

Today High school girls tennis Munising at Gwinn, 4 p.m. Westwood at Kingsford, 4:30 p.m. EDT High school girls & boys cross country L’Anse, Baraga at Kilpela Invitational, at Jeffers, 4 p.m. High school volleyball Marquette at Escanaba, 5:30 p.m. West Iron County at Ishpeming, 6:30 p.m. Houghton at Gwinn, 6:30 p.m. Thursday High school girls tennis Marquette, Negaunee, Westwood at Westwood Invitational, 10 a.m. High school football Ishpeming at Lake Linden-Hubbell, 5 p.m. Negaunee at Marquette, 7 p.m. Gladstone at Gwinn, 7 p.m. Norway at Munising, 7 ...

Starting over — but with experience: Modeltowners return to varsity status with a season of JV under their belts

August 25, 2026

GWINN — It’s like a breath of fresh spring air in Gwinn nowadays. And it’s almost autumn on the calendar for 2026. But that has to be the feeling around the “model town” in southern Marquette County with the return of high school varsity football this fall. Mind you, the sport ...

Gwinn Modeltowners

August 25, 2026

MHSAA Division 8 West PAC — Iron Division All times EDT HOME GAMES IN ALL CAPITALS Thurs., Aug. 27, 7 p.m. GLADSTONE Thurs., Sept. 3, 7 p.m. at Bark River-Harris Fri., Sept. 11, 7 p.m. WEST IRON COUNTY Fri., Sept. 18, 7 p.m. HANCOCK Fri., Sept. 25, 7 p.m. at L’Anse Fri., Oct. 2, 7 p.m. at Iron Mountain Fri., Oct. 9, 7 p.m. MANISTIQUE Fri., Oct. 16, 7 p.m. at Westwood Fri., Oct. 23, 7 p.m. at West Iron County

‘Series’ info box

August 25, 2026

This is the fourth in a series of high school and college football team previews appearing in The Mining Journal. Tomorrow’s featured team is the Northern Michigan University Wildcats

Not running on empty: DeBruyn paces NMU cross country teammates at Wildcat Open

August 24, 2026

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University junior Ella DeBruyn ran past 21 of her teammates to win the NMU Wildcat Open in college women’s cross country on Friday morning. Set on a relatively flat course near the Superior Dome and along Lake Superior, DeBruyn finished the five-kilometer ...

Locked and loaded for bear: Or whatever else comes up on the Miners’ football schedule

August 24, 2026

NEGAUNEE — You’ll have to forgive Negaunee High School football coach Jeff Niemi if he doesn’t want to look too far into the future this season. This perennial Upper Peninsula powerhouse Miners team was snakebit last fall when they lost a heartbreaking 29-28 overtime decision at West ...