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Tough way to open: Wildcat women host top 2 teams to start GLIAC campaign

MARQUETTE — Now comes the conference gauntlet for the undefeated women’s soccer team at Northern Michigan University. The Wildcats begin a string of 14 straight Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference games this afternoon when nationally ranked Grand Valley State comes to the NMU ...

NMU hockey tickets for single games on sale

MARQUETTE — Sales for tickets to single Northern Michigan University hockey games went on sale just over a week ago. It also includes the NMU Hockey Jersey Retirement luncheon set for the Holiday Inn of Marquette at lunchtime of the home opener on Friday, Oct. 2. That’s when the ...

NMU volleyball on road to open conference play

MARQUETTE — League play opens on the road for the Northern Michigan University volleyball team this afternoon, with another match away from home on Saturday before the Wildcats return to Vandament Arena for three straight matches. NMU is 3-5 as it travels to Hammond, Indiana, to take on ...

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Today High school girls tennis Munising at Menominee, 11 a.m. EDT High school girls & boys cross country Marquette at Spartan Inviational, at Michigan State University, East Lansing, time TBD High school football Menominee at Westwood, 7 p.m. (WZAM 106.9 FM & 970 AM) West Iron County at Gwinn, 7 p.m. Lake Linden-Hubbell at Munising, 7 p.m. (WQXO 97.7 FM & 1400 AM) Marquette at Sault Ste. Marie, 7 p.m. (Fox Sports 99.9 & 105.1 FM) Negaunee at Calumet, 7 p.m. (WKQS 101.9 FM) St. Ignace at Newberry, 7 p.m. (WNBY 1450 AM) Superior Central at Mid Peninsula, 7 ...

NMU men’s soccer hosts final nonleague game Saturday

MARQUETTE — The men’s soccer team at Northern Michigan University completes its nonconference schedule at home on Saturday afternoon before jumping into its Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference slate one week from today. The Wildcats host the University of Jamestown from the ...

Miners, Sentinels post decisive victories

NEGAUNEE — Maybe it wasn’t the gales of November that Gordon Lightfoot so eloquently sung about in “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” but some wind on Wednesday afternoon presented a challenge to the Negaunee High School girls tennis team. The Miners prevailed, however, blanking Ishpeming 7-0 as Negaunee lost just one set. “Today was the first day we had to play with some wind,” NHS head coach Megan Kerkela said in an email detailing the meet. “The girls had to adjust and move their feet more than normal, and I was happy with how quickly they adapted to the ...