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Today High school boys soccer MHSAA Division 2 district tournament: championship, Alpena-Petoskey winner at Marquette-Gaylord-Sault Ste. Marie winner (site tentative), 4:30 p.m. High school volleyball Cheboygan at Manistique, 5:30 p.m. Ishpeming at North Central, 6 p.m. EDT Kingsford at Marquette, 6:30 p.m. West Iron County at L’Anse, 6:30 p.m. Baraga at Bessemer, 6:45 p.m. EDT Stephenson at Munising, 7 p.m. Pickford at Newberry, 7 p.m. High school football Negaunee at Iron Mountain, 7 p.m. EDT (WKQS 101.9 FM) Friday High school football Munising at ...

NMU volleyball opens homestand with nat’l No. 1 Ferris

MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University volleyball team now gets to cash in all the extra road matches it has played in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Wildcats host the first of four consecutive league matches on Friday evening at its own Vandament Arena ...

Flivvers supplant Calumet at top of U.P. volleyball

IRONWOOD — What’s the easiest way to take over the King or the Queen of the Mountain? Well, certainly, knock the old “monarch” off and take over his or her spot. That’s what Kingsford did in this week’s Upper Peninsula high school volleyball polls conducted by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. As the king- or queen-in-waiting in Divisions 1-3, the No. 2 Flivvers had to be excited for a chance at No. 1 Calumet during the Clash of the Divisions quadrangular held in Crystal Falls on Saturday. Even as just a best-of-three at a multi-match event instead ...

Tomorrow’s stars today: Hillier Memorial youth hockey this weekend

MARQUETTE — Come one, come all, don’t pay a penny at the door to come watch some early-season youth hockey action at Lakeview Arena this weekend. The annual Daren Hillier Memorial Iron Sticks Tournament will feature 18 teams from three age levels playing throughout Friday, Saturday and ...

NMU men golfers among best for 2 rounds downstate

AUGUSTA — The men’s golf team at Northern Michigan University had a rough final round to finish sixth among 10 teams at the DU Panther Invitational held at a course between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek over the weekend. The Wildcats were third after Friday’s opening round and in second ...

Rising Sentinels, Flivvers square off to end regular season

MARQUETTE — There were two changes this time around in the Upper Peninsula high school football polls conducted weekly by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. For area fans, the significant one was Marquette’s rise from No. 5 to No. 4 in the 11-player voting. That came ...