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Today High school girls & boys cross country Munising, Superior Central, Baraga at Bay College Invitational, 10 or 11:30 a.m. NMU events Volleyball: at Grand Valley State, at Allendale, 3 p.m. Sunday NMU events Women’s soccer: at Saginaw Valley State, University Center, 1 p.m. Men’s soccer: at St. Cloud State, at St. Cloud, Minn., 3 p.m. EDT Monday High school girls & boys cross country Manistique at Kiwanis Invitational, at St. Ignace, time TBD High school volleyball Munising at Ishpeming, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday High school girls & boys cross ...

Ballard, MSHS boys dominate at El Harger cross country

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MUNISING — Senior Lucas Ballard was just as dominant individually as his Marquette Senior High School team was in the boys meet at the El Harger Invitational in high school cross country held Wednesday afternoon at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in Munising. Ballard won his race by what was approaching two full minutes in 15 minutes, 56.1 seconds. Runner-up Ashdeyn Gerow of Mid-Peninsula was well back in 17:44.0. And Ballard was just the tip of the iceberg for the Sentinels boys, who claimed seven of the top nine places to take the team title with 19 points. Gladstone was runner-up ...

Sentinels dominate finals to capture GNC meet

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MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School put its stamp on the Great Northern Conference meet in the championship matches, winning five of the six it was entered in to capture this high school girls tennis title on Wednesday. Playing on its home courts, the Sentinels scored 34 points to 28 for runner-up Escanaba. Gladstone was third with 21, followed by Kingsford with 20, West Iron County 10 and Menominee seven. Each of these teams — except WIC, which was entered in the GNC tourney as a team without a conference in this sport — will play in Wednesday’s MHSAA Upper Peninsula ...

NMU volleyball travels to nationally ranked GVSU today

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MARQUETTE — After the excitement of beating chief Upper Peninsula rival Michigan Tech on Tuesday, the Northern Michigan University volleyball team has another important task in front of it today — taking on conference co-leader and nationally ranked Grand Valley State. The Wildcats head ...

Preteen youths shine at Asian Games

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NAGOYA, Japan — Kamus Wong is a 12-year-old skateboarder from Hong Kong at the Asian Games. She has no illusions of being ready yet for the Olympics. "I hope, but like — I need to skate better because now I don't think I skate good enough to go to the Olympics," she said Thursday. "So I ...