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Marquette split-season Midget hockey tryouts set

MARQUETTE – Players from all over the Upper Peninsula are being invited by the Marquette Junior Hockey Corporation to try out for its Midget 16-and-under and 18-and-under Tier II split-season teams.

The split season allows high school-age players to compete for a team that can qualify for Michigan states and USA Hockey nationals prior to the start of the high school hockey season.

Following the split-season state finals in October, the winning teams go dormant until after the high school season in the late winter.

These teams disband, allowing players to try out for their respective high school varsity and JV teams, according to MJHC director Tim McIntosh.

Then after the high school season is over, the winning teams re-form and compete against the full-season 16U and 18U teams for the right to represent Michigan in the USA Hockey nationals.

“With the folding of the (Marquette) Electricians program, this makes our 16U and 18U Tier II teams the premier teams in our program,” MJHC President Jeff Cornock said. “We would like to put the best team possible on the ice.”

Tryouts will be held at 6 p.m. Friday and 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Northern Michigan University’s Berry Events Center for the 18U.

The 16U tryouts will be at 2 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday at the Berry.

Cost for the tryout is $35 for those who played in the MJHC last season and $50 for others.

If a player tries out for the 18U team, the icer doesn’t have to pay again to try out for the 16U squad.

More information is available by from 16U coach Mark Nebel by emailing him at mark.nebel@upmatters.com or calling him at 362-1477; 18U coach Dirk DenBeste by emailing him at djdenbeste@charter.net or calling him at 869-4481; or McIntosh by emailing him at wcatgoal@mqthockey.org or calling him at 228-9193.

Information compiled by Senior Sports Writer Craig Remsburg. He can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 251, or via email at cremsburg@miningjournal.net.

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