By Journal Sports Staff CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NMU senior Kameron Burmeister’s career came to an end Saturday night, but she went out with a solid performance at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships. Burmeister finished 15th in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:17.28. She ...
Major award winners were announced for the Marquette Senior High School varsity hockey team when its banquet was held in late March. In the front row from left are Aydin Frost, top defenseman and most valuable player; and Joe Phillips, top scorer and top forward. Middle row from left, Andrew ...
GWINN — The Negaunee girls maintained their stranglehold on the Mid-Peninsula Conference track title Thursday, scoring 162 points. Negaunee, crowned champion for the ninth consecutive year, doubled up the 81-point total of runner-up as Ishpeming was third with 76. “I was very happy with ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kameron Burmeister highlighted Northern Michigan University’s first day at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships women’s track and field meet. The Menominee senior earned Second Team All-American honors for her ninth-place finish in the 10,000-meter ...
CHAMPION — The conditions weren’t ideal Thursday at the Mid-Peninsula Conference golf meet as the humidity was heavy and rain would periodically pummel the greens at Wawonowin Country Club. However, even with their clothes drenched and their shoes soaked, the Negaunee boys and girls teams ...
NORWAY — The Marquette Senior High School baseball team left Norway with a doubleheader split on Thursday after an 8-1 victory in Game 1 and a 4-1 defeat in Game 2. The Redmen were powered in Game 1 by Hunter Doucette’s three-run homer and a strong performance on the mound by junior ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Escanaba swept the team titles while Escanaba’s Paxton Johnson and Marquette’s Tyler Bergwall cemented individual player of the year honors in the 18-hole Great Northern Conference golf finale Thursday at Pine Grove Country Club. GNC teams wrapped up their first season ...
MARQUETTE — Iron Mountain rallied from a two-goal deficit Tuesday and tied Marquette 2-2 to clinch the Central Upper Peninsula Soccer Conference championship. The Mountaineers (9-1-1, 4-0-1) clinched the title after defeating Marquette (4-1-1) last week. The Redettes’ Lauren Kurzawa ...
NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee softball team finished off an impressive regular season with a sweep of Kingsford on Thursday. The Miners (27-7) defeated Kingsford 7-2 in the opener and then 4-0 in the nightcap. Abby Nelson picked up both wins in the circle for Negaunee. “It’s been a great ...
MARQUETTE — Jackie Kuhn recorded her first career hole-in-one on Wednesday when she used a 7-iron to ace the par-3, 95-yard third hole at the Marquette Golf Club’s Greywalls course. Witnessing the feat were Ann Lahaie, Karen MacLachlan and Donna Heikkila.
MARQUETTE — Four teams had one final opportunity to tune up for the Upper Peninsula Finals at the Great Northern Conference track and field meet hosted by Marquette Senior High School on Thursday afternoon. On a cloudy and humid 70-degree day, Marquette claimed the boys GNC crown with 121 ...
MENOMINEE — West Iron County ended a Great Northern Conference boys tennis dry spell Thursday. The Wykons chalked up 43 points to win their first GNC boys tennis title since 1986, according to WIC Coach Joe Serbentas. “I told the guys before the tournament that it would be nice to get ...
HANCOCK — Cooper LaPlante’s second place in the boys 800-meter run was the highest finish for L’Anse High School at the West PAC conference track and field meet held in Hancock on Wednesday. The Purple Hornets scored 16 points in each meet to finish fifth of the five teams for both boys ...
By Journal Sports Staff CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ine Mylie has had an outstanding career competing for the Northern Michigan University track and field team and she closed out it out Friday with a 14th place finish in the triple jump at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships Friday. ...
By Journal Sports Staff SAULT STE. MARIE — Marquette junior soccer forward Lauren Kurzawa broke Sault Ste. Marie’s hearts once already this season and two nights ago, she did it again. After scoring the game-winning goal in the closing seconds earlier this month to beat the Blue ...
NEGAUNEE — The sun was shining brightly Wednesday afternoon as it baked the tennis courts at Negaunee and Westwood high schools. However, the heat didn’t seem to bother the Miners boys team at all as they extended their dynasty in the Mid-Peninsula Conference. For the eighth straight ...
MARQUETTE — The two high school golf teams from the Upper Peninsula’s “banana belt” emerged with victories at the Marquette Invitational held at the Marquette Golf Club on Wednesday. Gladstone took the boys title with a score of 313, while Escanaba finished second at 327 and the host ...
MARQUETTE — Three Northern Michigan University senior women athletes begin the final meet of the season today at the NCAA Division II Outdoor National Championships in Charlotte, North Carolina. The meet, which runs through Saturday, will see the Wildcats compete in four events, led by ...
"She’s so determined and she is not going to be stopped." — Ben McGuire, Ishpeming softball coach, on senior Emma Bleau pitching both ends of Tuesday’s doubleheader ------------------- ISHPEMING — Playing your last home game on your home field is always a bittersweet occasion for ...
STEPHENSON — Terry Brower scratched four times in long jump during Tuesday’s Skyline Central Conference track meet. The Mid Peninsula senior made his other two jumps count, however, as he captured the league title with a school-record leap of 21 feet, 8 3/4 inches on a sunny and warm ...