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Sentinels sent packing

MARQUETTE — Despite the loss by a single point at an undefeated Lower Peninsula team, Marquette couldn’t hold onto is spot in the 11-player rankings when the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association released its weekly U.P. high school football polls on Tuesday. The ...

Miners take 7-1 girls tennis decision at Marquette

MARQUETTE — Two matches were decided in a third set and another went to a second-set tiebreaker as Negaunee prevailed 7-1 over Marquette in a high school girls tennis meet held at the Sentinels courts on Monday afternoon. “Today’s meet was very similar to the meet a few weeks back up in ...

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Today High school girls tennis Marquette at Westwood, 3:30 p.m. Thursday High school girls tennis Ishpeming at Iron Mountain, 2 p.m. EDT Menominee at Marquette, 3:30 p.m. Munising at Negaunee, 4 p.m. Westwood at Iron Mountain, 4:30 p.m. EDT Gwinn at West Iron County, 4:30 p.m. ...

NMU women’s soccer plays to 2nd scoreless draw

MARQUETTE — Tie games in sports don’t sound like much fun, and scoreless deadlocks even less so, but considering the quality of opponent the Northern Michigan University women’s soccer team was playing, the draw might not be so bad. The Wildcats played 0-0 against Cedarville on Saturday ...

Famous NMU alum Mariucci to have football jersey retired

MARQUETTE — Befitting one of the highest-profile alumnus to ever come out of Northern Michigan University, the announcement that former quarterback Steve Mariucci’s Wildcat football jersey would be retired was also made in a most high-profile way. The signal caller on NMU’s 1975 NCAA ...