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Wildcats volleyball falls at league-leading GVSU

ALLENDALE — The Northern Michigan University volleyball team fell into a logjam at .500 in the middle of the conference following a three-set loss at league leader Grand Valley State on Saturday afternoon. The Lakers took a 27-25, 25-19, 25-19 victory. The Wildcats stand 6-8 overall and ...

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Today High school girls & boys cross country Manistique at Kiwanis Invitational, at St. Ignace, time TBD High school volleyball Munising at Ishpeming, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday High school girls & boys cross country Negaunee, Ishpeming, Westwood, Newberry at Negaunee Invitational, at Negaunee Township Trails, 4 p.m. High school volleyball Newberry at Pickford, 5:45 p.m. Marquette at Gwinn, 6:30 p.m. Ishpeming at Houghton, 6:30 p.m. Negaunee at Hancock, 6:45 p.m. Ewen-Trout Creek at Baraga, 6:45 p.m. Gladstone at Westwood, 7 p.m. Wakefield at L’Anse, 7 ...

Miners finish dual meet season with win

NEGAUNEE — Negaunee pulled off a 6-2 home victory over Kingsford on Thursday in the final dual meet of the high school girls tennis season for the Miners. Negaunee, which finished with a dual-meet record of 14-1, was coming off a runner-up finish to Westwood at the Mid-Peninsula Conference meet a day earlier, where the Patriots prevailed in six of the eight championship matches against Miners’ players. “With this being our last dual meet before (the MHSAA U.P. Finals in Division 1), we knew we needed to come into it with focus,” Negaunee head coach Megan Kerkela said in an ...

NMU volleyball travels to nationally ranked GVSU today

MARQUETTE — After the excitement of beating chief Upper Peninsula rival Michigan Tech on Tuesday, the Northern Michigan University volleyball team has another important task in front of it today — taking on conference co-leader and nationally ranked Grand Valley State. The Wildcats head ...

Sentinels dominate finals to capture GNC meet

MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School put its stamp on the Great Northern Conference meet in the championship matches, winning five of the six it was entered in to capture this high school girls tennis title on Wednesday. Playing on its home courts, the Sentinels scored 34 points to 28 for runner-up Escanaba. Gladstone was third with 21, followed by Kingsford with 20, West Iron County 10 and Menominee seven. Each of these teams — except WIC, which was entered in the GNC tourney as a team without a conference in this sport — will play in Wednesday’s MHSAA Upper Peninsula ...