MARQUETTE — Lessons on how to play pickleball will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays every week through Dec. 11 in Marquette, except for Thanksgiving week. Pickleball is touted as the easiest sport in the world to play along with one of the fastest growing. Interested people can just drop ...
ESCANABA — The Bay College men’s and women’s basketball teams will each feature four area players on their rosters this season as the Norse begin their regular-season schedules on the road this weekend. Three of those area players return for the men, who were 20-10 last year, and two ...
MARQUETTE — The inaugural Superior Cup hockey tournament hosted by the Marquette Mutineers took place over the weekend, with the Mutineers picking up an 8-4 win over the Mosinee, Wisconsin, Papermakers in Saturday’s consolation game at Lakeview Arena. The tournament, which featured four ...
ANGOLA, Indiana — Sophomore Dave Carlson of Newberry was a top defender for the Finlandia University football team as it lost to Trine 58-0. Carlson made 11 tackles with 2 1/2 of them for losses as the Lions gave up just seven points in the first quarter. Finlandia is No. 1 in NCAA Division ...
MARQUETTE — Three-time Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. will help kick off November as National Diabetes Awareness Month by speaking at Northern Michigan University on Friday. The event takes place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Room 1100 of Jamrich Hall on the NMU campus. There is no charge for ...
MARQUETTE — Joe Negrinelli won a 10-man competition on Saturday at the end-of-season Shoot Out held at the Marquette Golf Club. The event included the top 10 gift certificate winners from the summer in a group competition where one player is eliminated at each hole until the last man ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University outdoor tennis courts will close for the season on Sunday, according to a release from the university. The courts are located near the intramural field off Wright Street in Marquette.
GLADSTONE — The Marquette Redettes volleyball team continued its stranglehold on the Great Northern Conference here Saturday, capturing the GNC tournament with a 25-18, 25-23 win over Escanaba in the championship match. The Redettes (32-2-3), who have yet to drop a conference game this ...
MARQUETTE — A pair of area teams made a small move down in the polls as things remain largely unchanged from last week in the Upper Peninsula high school football polls released today by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. With voting conducted by a select group of the ...
ESCANABA — Coach Rob Robinson knew the challenge that lied ahead when his Bay College Norse women’s basketball team took the floor against Northern Michigan University in an exhibition contest here Sunday. The Norse, a community college team playing against a strong NCAA Division II ...
HANCOCK — Sophomore defensive lineman Dave Carlson of Newberry made eight tackles in Finlandia’s 79-12 loss to Hope College in a college football game played Saturday at McAfee Field in Hancock. The Lions dropped to 0-6 overall and 0-3 in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School athletic director Alex Tiseo was elected to represent Class A and B schools from the Upper Peninsula on the Representative Council, the legislative body of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. He is among five new members elected. ...
L’ANSE — The 25th anniversary Lake Superior Performance Rally concludes today in Baraga and Houghton counties. Automobile rallies date back 70 years to the Press On Regardless Series that evolved into the current event. Action begins at 9 a.m. with first car out for the Parc Expose on ...
BIG BAY — The inaugural Yellow Dog Dash will be held Saturday morning in Big Bay. Put on by the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, the event can be run or walked over five kilometers or 10K starting at 11 a.m. A children’s half-mile dash starts at 10:30 a.m. Registration is available at the ...
MARQUETTE — The third annual Potulny Pasta Party will be held later this month on the Rick Comley Rink at the Berry Events Center at Northern Michigan University. Scheduled for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27, this community event will be hosted by NMU head hockey coach Grant Potulny ...
MARQUETTE — Ray DesJardins is having a career year at the Marquette Golf Club, at least on par-3 holes. The club member recorded his second hole-in-one in six weeks and fourth of his career on Thursday at the Greywalls course. DesJardins used a 9-iron to ace the 94-yard third hole and ...
By Journal Sports Staff NEGAUNEE — Quarterback Jason Waterman accounted for three touchdowns and teammate Nash Hillier ran for 166 yards as Negaunee slid past Gogebic 42-16 in a high school football game played at the Miners’ field in Negaunee on Friday night. The Negaunee Miners (5-2) ...
NEGAUNEE — Negaunee High School will honor its long-time varsity football coach Dick Koski at its home game against a team that shares its nickname, the Gogebic Miners, at 7 p.m. today. “What makes this game even more unique is the history behind the nickname,” a post on the NHS website ...
MARQUETTE — Teenager Adam Heikkila made it a family affair when he achieved his first hole-in-one on the Greywalls course at the Marquette Golf Club on Tuesday. Heikkila, 13, had as a witness to his feat his grandmother, Donna Heikkila, as he shot 73 for his round. Adam Heikkila used a ...
MARQUETTE — Former hockey standout and coach Fred DeVuono of Sault Ste. Marie has died, marking the fourth inductee of the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame to pass away in the past month. DeVuono, 84, died Tuesday in a Petoskey hospital of an apparent heart attack. He played for ...