IRONWOOD — The Bay College men’s basketball team defeated Gogebic Community College 82-54 on Wednesday to guarantee itself at least one home playoff game in the upcoming National Junior College Athletic Association tournament. The Norse (16-9) and Dakota County (Minnesota) Technical ...
IRONWOOD — The Bay College women’s basketball team clinched home court in the National Junior College Athletic Association regional tournament by winning at Gogebic Community College on Wednesday. The Norse felled GCC 80-54 as Munising sophomore Kelsea Ackerman returned to the lineup ...
MARQUETTE — The 17th annual Finlandia Dome Classic softball tournament will be held this weekend in Marquette. The Northern Michigan University club team will be joined in the Superior Dome by seven collegiate teams — host Finlandia and Bay College from the Upper Peninsula; and Northland, ...
ASHLAND, Wis. — L’Anse junior Bailey Froberg scored 10 points to help the Finlandia women’s basketball team defeat Northland 72-57 on Wednesday evening. Froberg started and played 25 minutes, adding five rebounds and a steal to her stat line. Ishpeming sophomore Katie Loman had six ...
HOUGHTON — North Central High School graduate Dawson Bilski was named the GLIAC North Division Player of the Week in men’s basketball after the junior guard helped lead Michigan Tech to a pair of wins last week. Bilski made 11 3-pointers and finished with 49 points total in home victories ...
HANCOCK — L’Anse junior Bailey Froberg played a key role off the bench in the Finlandia women’s basketball team scoring its seventh straight victory, a 65-47 decision over visiting Mount Mary on Saturday. Froberg scored eight points, making a pair of 3-pointers, and had two rebounds and ...
ESCANABA — Negaunee sophomore Luke Mattson started and scored three points as the Bay College men’s basketball team lost a 95-64 decision at home to Bryant & Stratton College on Saturday. Mattson played 17 minutes and added a rebound and an assist. Ishpeming sophomore Dondre Yohe ...
ESCANABA — Munising sophomore Marissa Ackerman scored one point while pulling in four rebounds as the Bay College women’s basketball team lost 84-39 to Bryant & Stratton College on Saturday. Gwinn freshmen Trish McGuire and Brooke Mannor didn’t score for the Norse (14-10), but ...
HOUGHTON — Lake Superior State captured the John MacInnes Trophy but Michigan Tech salvaged an important split of the Huskies’ Winter Carnival college hockey series over the weekend. LSSU won the trophy named after the late Tech coach with a 10-7 total goals advantage after winning 7-3 ...
HANCOCK — Superior Central graduate Joe Heinonen played a key role in Finlandia’s 91-77 men’s basketball victory over Gogebic Community College on Wednesday that snapped the Lions’ 47-game losing streak. Heinonen, a Finlandia sophomore, scored 15 points, making two 3-pointers, while ...
MARQUETTE — Sometimes when Marquette County athletes graduate, they consider leaving the area to extend their careers and six of them decided to do just that on NCAA National Signing Day Wednesday. Four football players decided to go to Michigan Tech, while one decided to leave the state ...
NEGAUNEE — The 2000 Negaunee High School boys basketball team that won the Class C state championship will be honored before the Miners’ boys varsity game played Friday night against Gwinn at Lakeview Memorial Gymnasium. Tentative start time for the celebration is 7 p.m. Players, ...
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WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Gwinn freshman Brooke Mannor sank three 3-pointers and scored 11 points but it wasn’t enough for the Bay College women’s basketball team to avert a 78-59 loss at Bryant & Stratton College on Saturday. Mannor came off the bench and played just 15 minutes, but it was ...
WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Bryant & Stratton College used a 24-5 run to end the first half and held on down the stretch to defeat Bay College 90-80 in a college men’s basketball game played Saturday. The Norse (16-8) trailed just 23-20 after Negaunee sophomore Luke Mattson followed up an ...
HANCOCK — The Finlandia women and Bay College men finished off a two-game sweep of their basketball opponents from the other school with wins in Hancock on Wednesday night. The Lions women pulled out a 68-54 victory over Bay, while the Norse men ran wild in a 99-72 victory over ...
MARQUETTE — Area residents made plenty of noise at the top of the standings in some of the less well-known races at the 22nd annual Noquemanon Ski Marathon held Friday through Sunday. While the attention grabber was the 50-kilometer and 24K ski races, the 12K classic and freestyle also drew ...
"I felt like I was in the movie ‘Frozen,’ waiting for Anna and Elsa to jump out of the woods at me." — Matt Liebsch, winner, 50K classic race at Noquemanon Ski Marathon -------------------- MARQUETTE — Newly fallen wet and heavy snow blanketed most of Marquette County on Friday ...
BOYNE FALLS — A Munising High School graduate and former Mustangs basketball coach recently reached a career milestone while coaching in the Lower Peninsula. Frank Hamilla, a 1980 graduate of MHS, earned his 400th boys varsity victory while coaching at Boyne Falls on Jan. 16. The Loggers ...
GWINN — The Gwinn Area Community Schools and the greater Forsyth Township community is in mourning after the death of Modeltowners varsity head football coach Dion Brown on Wednesday evening. The GACS, through Superintendent Sandra Petrovich, released a short statement about the ...