HANCOCK — Area players Joe Heinonen and River Shumate combined to score 19 points but it wasn’t enough for the Finlandia men’s basketball team to get its first victory of the season at home against Alma on Saturday. The Scots prevailed 97-89 as the Lions fell to 0-14 despite FU holding ...
ASHLAND, Wis. — Superior Central sophomore Joe Heinonen started and scored 13 points in the Finlandia men’s basketball team’s 101-66 loss at Northland on Thursday. Heinonen played 31 minutes and was the Lions’ second-leading scorer after Dylan Underwood, who had 16 points. Heinonen ...
DETROIT — Tournament MVP Logan Pietila recorded a three-goal hat trick and goaltending teammate Matt Jurusik made 35 saves as Michigan Tech won the Great Lakes Invitational college hockey championship with a 4-2 victory over the University of Michigan on Tuesday afternoon. The Huskies won ...
DETROIT — Michigan Tech and Michigan will meet at 2:30 p.m. today for the championship at the 55th annual Great Lakes Invitational college hockey tournament after winning semifinal games on Monday. The Huskies (11-8-1) advanced to their fifth straight final with a 4-2 win over No. 18 ...
SUPERIOR, Wis. — Four area players lent support to sophomore teammate Katie Lundeen’s massive 32-point output in the Finlandia women’s basketball team’s 66-58 victory over St. Scholastica on the second day of the Wisconsin-Superior Holiday Shootout on Monday. Lundeen, who made 10 ...
MARQUETTE — Learn to Skate classes offered by the Marquette Figure Skating Club begin next week with the session running through the first week of February. Open from ages 4 years old and up, including adults, classes are held at Lakeview Arena in Marquette on consecutive Tuesdays and/or ...
SUPERIOR, Wis. — L’Anse High School graduate Bailey Froberg scored a game-high 20 points but it wasn’t enough as her Finlandia Lions women’s basketball team lost 64-55 to the host team at the Wisconsin-Superior Holiday Shootout on Sunday. Finlandia (5-11) completes its run at the ...
HOUGHTON — A Negaunee High School graduate was an award winner when the Michigan Tech football team held its annual postseason meeting last week in Houghton. Senior Jeremy Bell was named the Offensive Lineman of the Year while also receiving the Ted Kearly Award for the second straight ...
MARQUETTE — Most people within the Marquette community know Tim McIntosh as the public address voice of Northern Michigan University hockey. What some people may not know about “Mac” is what he’s done for local youth hockey behind the scenes. For the last 47 years, McIntosh has worked ...
HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech and the University of Michigan will cohost the 55th annual Great Lakes Invitational college hockey tournament to be held next Monday and on Tuesday, Dec. 31, at the home of the Detroit Red Wings, Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Tech opens the event with a 1 p.m. ...
COON RAPIDS, Minn. — All four players from the area took part for the Bay College women’s basketball team in its two games at the Anoka-Ramsey Community College Holiday Classic over the weekend. The top scoring performance was turned in by sophomore Kelsea Ackerman of Munising as she ...
COON RAPIDS, Minn. — Negaunee sophomore Luke Mattson started in both contests as the Bay College men’s basketball team split a pair of games at the Anoka-Ramsey Community College Holiday Classic over the weekend. Mattson scored eight points, hitting both his shots from the field and 4 of ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Sophomore River Shumate of Republic-Michigamme scored 10 points as the Finlandia men’s basketball team lost 98-79 to Carleton College at the Orlando Classic played in Florida on Thursday night. Shumate made a pair of 3-pointers while grabbing four rebounds and making an ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Junior Bailey Froberg of L’Anse shared scoring honors for Finlandia as the Lions women’s basketball team lost 70-55 to North Park of Chicago at the Orlando Classic held in Florida on Thursday. Finlandia (5-10) held just about even with North Park in the second half after ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Baraga sophomore Carsyn Osterman and L’Anse junior Bailey Froberg were the only Finlandia players to score in double figures as the Lions lost to downstate Hope College 82-51 in the opening round of the Orlando Classic on Tuesday night. In the men’s companion tourney, ...
ESCANABA — A two-day camp conducted by Great Northern Basketball will be held for boys and girls in grades 1-8 just after Christmas at Escanaba High School. Held on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 27-28, campers in grades 1-4 will be in session from 9 to 10:30 a.m. with those in grades 5-8 going ...
MARQUETTE — Have four players score in double figures and your team is bound to have a good night on the basketball court. Juniors Ty Lotterman and Kam Karp, along with senior teammates John Thomson and Drew Wyble, combined for 67 points to help the Marquette Senior High School boys ...
By Journal Sports Staff NEGAUNEE — Balanced scoring and much more production at the free-throw line spelled the difference in Marquette’s 35-32 girls basketball victory at Lakeview Memorial Gymnasium in Negaunee on Tuesday night. No Redette broke into double figures in scoring, though ...
By JUSTIN ST. OURS Escanaba Daily Press ESCANABA — The Escanaba gymnastics team took another step toward qualifying for regional competition after winning its Elks Invitational tournament on Saturday, totaling 122.05 points as Marquette had 119.6 and Negaunee 98.55. “(I’m) very ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University men’s basketball team plays its only nonconference games since starting its GLIAC schedule with home contests in the next several days at the Berry Events Center. The Wildcats host former league member Hillsdale at ...