WASHINGTON, Mich. — The women’s golf team at Northern Michigan University finished ninth among 14 teams at the Warrior Invitational held in suburban Detroit on Monday and Tuesday. With half the field made up of teams from NMU’s Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, the ...
MARQUETTE — There was some movement by area teams in the second week of the Upper Peninsula high school football polls released on Tuesday by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. That shouldn’t be unexpected as teams won’t reach the halfway point of the regular season ...
MARQUETTE — Five is the maximum number of sets in a college volleyball match. But for the Northern Michigan University and Michigan Tech teams, it seems to have become the minimum when they face each other. For the fourth straight time spanning all or parts of three seasons, the Wildcats ...
IRONWOOD — Negaunee made the only move up by any team in this week’s Upper Peninsula high school volleyball polls released Monday and conducted by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. The only move in either the Divisions 1-3 or Division 4 rankings from Week 1 to Week 2 occurred when the Miners leapfrogged Houghton for No. 3 in D 1-3. Negaunee improved to 12-4 by winning five of six matches in the past week, including three victories at the downstate Kingsley Invitational on Sept. 12, and later regular match triumphs over Escanaba and Houghton. Gwinn couldn’t ...
Today High school girls & boys cross country Negaunee, Ishpeming, Westwood at Tracy Strom Invitational/West PAC meet #2, at Al Quaal Recreation Area, Ishpeming, 4 p.m. Newberry at Mackinaw Club Invitational, at Mackinaw City, 4 p.m. Baraga Invitational, 4 p.m. High school boys soccer Houghton at Marquette, 6 p.m. High school volleyball Escanaba at Marquette, 6:30 p.m. L’Anse at Jeffers, 6:30 p.m. Gwinn at Negaunee, 6:45 p.m. North Dickinson at Munising, 7 p.m. Newberry at St. Ignace, 7 p.m. Manistique at Bark River-Harris, 7:15 p.m. EDT Superior Central at ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette swept the doubles and split at singles to score a 6-2 victory over Kingsford in a high school girls tennis meet held at the Sentinels’ courts on Monday. “We are just beginning Homecoming week at school, which means there are a lot of activities going on,” MSHS head coach Karl Thomsen said in an email detailing the results. “So I was super impressed on how focused our girls were … on the courts.” That included his No. 3 singles player Nora Skytta, who scored a 6-2, 7-5 victory over the Flivvers’ Aubrey Belmore. “Nora Skytta played one of her ...
