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Miners hold off Pats, Marquette falls twice to state powers

ISHPEMING — Gretel Johnson pumped in 20 points to lead Negaunee to a 46-36 high school girls basketball victory at Westwood on Friday night. She was the only player to score in double figures for the Miners, who improved to a perfect 11-0, own the unanimous No. 1 ranking in the Upper ...

Marquette wrestlers 4th at U.P. Championships

MARQUETTE — Marquette finished in fourth place at the Upper Peninsula Championships high school wrestling meet on Saturday that featured all 18 U.P. schools with a varsity wrestling program. Hosted by the Sentinels, MSHS had seven wrestlers place in the event as Marquette finished with 132.5 points. Gladstone won with 224.5 points, with Escanaba runner-up with 147 and third-place Sault Ste. Marie having 139.5 as fifth-place Kingsford totaled 120.5. Among other area teams, Negaunee was sixth with 109.5 points, Westwood eighth with 85, Manistique 12th with 62.5, Gwinn 14th with 53.5, ...

NMU’s Schmittdiel named top women’s defensive player

MARQUETTE — She was the model of efficiency and for that women’s basketball player Jordan Schmittdiel of Northern Michigan University has been named Defensive Player of the Week by the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Despite averaging just over 15 minutes per game in ...

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Today High school wrestling Negaunee at Menominee, 6:30 p.m. EST High school boys basketball Munising at Rudyard, 7:30 p.m. Thursday High school girls & boys swimming & diving Westwood at Manistique, 4 p.m. High school girls basketball Superior Central at North Central, 6:15 p.m. EST Newberry at Brimley, 7 p.m. Westwood at Ishpeming, 7:15 p.m. Gwinn at West Iron County, 7:15 p.m. EST Ontonagon at L’Anse, 7:15 p.m. Ironwood at Baraga, 7:15 p.m. Gladstone at Manistique, 7:15 p.m. High school boys basketball Bark River-Harris at Gwinn, 7:15 p.m. Westwood ...

Wildcats’ Kuehl earns GLIAC defensive nod

MARQUETTE — Even though he’s known as one of the top scorers in the conference, men’s basketball player Dylan Kuehl of Northern Michigan University didn’t earn an honor for his offense on Monday. The graduate student forward from Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, instead was named Defensive ...

High school basketball

Upper Peninsula scores MONDAY Girls Bark River-Harris 64, Rapid River 22 Brimley 50, Cedarville 35 Ishpeming 53, Iron Mountain 27 Kingsford 45, North Dickinson 24 Newberry 66, Engadine 10 North Central 50, Carney-Nadeau 36 Norway 53, Forest Park 47 Gwinn at Calumet, ppd. Wakefield-Marenisco at Baraga, ppd. Boys Bark River-Harris 54, Norway 53 Houghton 66, Hancock 29 Kingsford 50, Menominee 34 Munising at Bessemer, ccd.