ISHPEMING — The Westwood girls basketball team has found its Prophet. Natalie Prophet, that is. She has been the Patriots’ secret weapon the past few games and on Monday night, she was locked and loaded during Westwood’s MHSAA Division 3 district tournament game against ...
MARQUETTE — Baraga bumped up against the glass ceiling that is St. Ignace in the final Upper Peninsula high school basketball poll released today by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. Only girls votes were tabulated this week as the boys district tournaments were ...
ISHPEMING — Sometimes spreading out the scoring can be more beneficial to a team than one or two star players rolling up the points. The Ishpeming girls basketball team used that spread to perfection on Monday as no player reached double figures, but 10 of 13 players found the scoresheet in ...
CHASSELL — Chassell avenged a regular-season loss just last week to L’Anse in a girls basketball Division 3 district tournament game played Monday night. “They (Purple Hornets) took it to us last week,” Chassell coach Bill Sleeman said after his team’s 36-30 victory on Monday at Ed ...
MARQUETTE — A second straight week of high school winter sports tournaments in this first full week of March will be accompanied by tournaments going on at Northern Michigan University, too. High school girls basketball teams step up for their district tournaments this week, while three area ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the week of Feb. 21-27
CALUMET — Westwood junior Tessa Leece and her coach hauled off the major hardware when West PAC high school girls basketball awards were announced recently. Leece won both the league’s Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year honors, while her coach, Kurt Corcoran, was named ...
ISHPEMING — A competitor from Ishpeming-Negaunee and a team from Westwood reached the semifinals before bowing out at the MHSAA bowling state championships on Friday and Saturday downstate. In the Division 3 girls singles tournament held at Northway Lanes in Muskegon on Saturday, senior ...
By RYAN STIEG Journal Sports Writer MARQUETTE — Earlier this week, Northern Michigan University forward Troy Loggins and goaltender Atte Tolvanen each earned WCHA weekly awards. Now there’s an excellent chance they’ll keep those same honors for a second straight week as the pair of ...
Last Sunday night, the Oscars were on television and like always, there were some intense debates after the awards were handed out. The best performances didn’t win and the Best Picture winner was, let’s just say, controversial. Some have even called it worst winner in years, which says a ...
By Journal Sports Staff DETROIT — Each of the seven area wrestlers participating at the MHSAA Wrestling Individual Finals in Detroit lost a pair of matches Friday and was eliminated from further competition. With more than 900 wrestlers gathered at Ford Field, the event takes two days to ...
By Journal Sports Staff MANISTIQUE — The Negaunee girls basketball team capped off its regular season with a 53-21 road win at Manistique on Thursday night. The Miners finish the regular season at 16-4 going into a big matchup with 19-1 Westwood on Monday night to open up district play in ...
MARQUETTE — Doug Garrow earned his 100th career win as head coach of the Marquette varsity hockey team on Tuesday night. Win No. 101 proved to be even sweeter, as the Redmen prevailed 5-0 over Escanaba in the MHSAA Division 2 regional tournament championship game at Lakeview Arena on ...
By ADAM NIEMI Iron Mountain Daily News KINGSFORD — Westwood answered a second-half rally by Kingsford and held on for a 60-48 nonconference win on Thursday. The Patriots (19-1) led by 11 at halftime before the Flivvers pulled within three points early in the fourth quarter. A 3-pointer ...
By AUSTIN HEMMINGSON Escanaba Daily Press GLADSTONE — The Gladstone girls basketball team found its offense just in time to pull away from Gwinn for a 38-33 victory to end the regular season on Thursday night. Trailing 24-14 entering the fourth quarter, the Modeltowners cut their ...
MARQUETTE — It’s all come down to this weekend for the Northern Michigan University hockey team. Before last weekend, Northern needed a sweep of now-No. 19 Lake Superior State to keep its hopes alive for hosting a first-round WCHA playoff series. The Wildcats accomplished that task, but ...
By Journal Sports Staff BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — A couple days after teammates Troy Loggins and Atte Tolvanen picked up weekly awards, Northern Michigan University senior forward Adam Rockwood notched a different one Thursday as he was named WCHA Forward of the Month. He led the conference ...
By EDDIE O’NEILL Houghton Daily Mining Gazette HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech men’s basketball coach Kevin Luke has had to say it time and time again this season. “It is not for effort that we have lost this game,” he said. “Our guys never give up.” Unfortunately he had to ...
By EDDIE O’NEILL Houghton Daily Mining Gazette HOUGHTON — With a big smile on her face, Michigan Tech women’s basketball coach Sam Hoyt stood at the top of the ladder and gingerly snipped though the last two strands on net at the south end basket at the Wood Gym. The first-year ...
By JAMIE GLENN Houghton Daily Mining Gazette HOUGHTON — As college hockey teams get to the end of the season, they look to seniors for leadership. The Northern Michigan University Wildcats got just that Friday night on the road at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena as the Wildcats got a ...