Swim Teal Lake for Diabetes: THE EVENT: • What: Swim Teal Lake for Diabetes • When: Saturday morning • Where: All start lines on the Negaunee shore of Teal Lake • Short-n-Sweet, 8:30 a.m., quarter-mile out and back • Beginner swim, 9 a.m., across lake to Al Quaal ...
MARQUETTE — The Superiorland Baseball League has completed two weeks of its abbreviated summer season with the Escanaba Polecats moving out front with a 2-0 record. The Marquette County Mavericks, two-time playoff champions, and Channing Railroaders, two-time regular-season titlists, have ...
CHAMPION — The team of Mark Clements, Mark Duquette and KC Bjorne successfully defended their annual Three-Man Scramble golf tournament title held at Wawonowin Country Club in Champion over the weekend. They needed two playoff holes to fend off the advances of the runner-up trio of Brandon ...
HARVEY — A long-time member at the Northern Michigan University Golf Course knocked his tee shot in the cup for his first hole-in-one at the Chocolay Township course on Monday. John Dott used a 9-iron on the 112-yard 14th hole for his ace, recording a score of 40 for his nine-hole ...
HANCOCK — Conference championship tournaments have been suspended for fall sports due to the coronavirus pandemic in the Capital Athletic Conference, the league that Finlandia University of Hancock joined this spring. The fall sports suspension affects the Lions in volleyball, men’s ...
MARQUETTE — Steven Fortino won his flight by five strokes as he shot the lowest score of any golfer in the “150” category at a Marquette County Junior Golf Association tournament held at Red Fox Run at K.I. Sawyer on Monday. Fortino put together a five-hole score of 30 in Boys 150 ...
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MARQUETTE — The Wildcat Aquatics Club of Marquette not only qualified three swimmers for the 12-years-and-under Wisconsin USA State Championship Meet held Feb. 28-March 1, but won the Division 3 state title as well. These swimmers had top-five finishes: • Kaytlin Roell, 9-10 age group ...
EAST LANSING — Fall sports at Michigan high schools will start on time, officials said Friday, although the schedule could change if coronavirus trends get worse. Football practices can start Aug. 10, followed by other fall sports two days later, the Michigan High School Athletic ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — It may take a lot to top the Marquette Reds’ opening game at the Upper Peninsula Junior Baseball League Tournament played in Iron Mountain on Thursday. Luke Mead doubled on a 1-0 count in the bottom of the eighth inning to knock in the tying and winning runs of the Reds’ ...
MARQUETTE — Former Northern Michigan University golfers Austin Elsner and Hunter Mires teamed up to win the championship flight at the Marquette 2-Man Best Ball Tournament hosted by the Marquette Golf Club last weekend. Elsner and Mires sizzled on the opening day Saturday with 62, then ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Blues built a five-run lead in the fourth inning but had to hold on for a 6-4 victory over the Gladstone Indians in an Upper Peninsula Under-19 Baseball League game played Wednesday at Haley Memorial Field in Marquette. The visitors scored twice in the fifth inning ...
"(Southern Illinois) had too much to offer to me to pass up the opportunity." — Foster Wonders, senior-to-be basketball player, Iron Mountain High School ------------------ IRON MOUNTAIN — High school student athletes with elite NCAA talent are few and far between in the Upper ...
LAS VEGAS — Mikaela Mayer made history Tuesday evening, but more importantly, she earned the win. Mayer improved her professional record to 13-0 with five knockouts as she outboxed Helen Joseph over 10 rounds, earning a unanimous decision at the MGM Grand “bubble.” Two judges scored ...
GLADSTONE — A 36-hole tournament turned into 41 holes on Tuesday at the conclusion of the 16th annual Upper Peninsula Golf Association Senior Men’s tournament at the Terrace Bluff Golf and Country Club in Gladstone. Tim Kramer of Riverside Country Club in Menominee, the first-day leader, ...
MARQUETTE — In the long list of canceled events this spring and summer, add the Marquette Marathon to the group. Race director Forrest Karr, also athletic director at Northern Michigan University, announced Tuesday on behalf of the organizing committee that the marathon and affiliated ...
GLADSTONE — Scott Saari of Wawonowin Country Club in Champion made the championship flight after Monday’s first day of the Upper Peninsula Senior Golf Championship at Terrace Bluff Golf and Country Club in Gladstone. Saari, the 2018 champion of this tourney, shot 74 during the 16th annual ...
MARQUETTE — Monday’s announcement that the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association was canceling fall sports for its members affects in particular one Upper Peninsula school, Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba. It will probably affect Gogebic Community College in Ironwood, ...
Tonight: Mikaela Mayer (12-0, 5 KOs) vs. Helen Joseph (17-4-2, 10 KOs), 9 p.m., ESPN ----------------- LAS VEGAS — Jamel Herring was supposed to fight Tuesday night as part of a feel-good card topped by two boxers who had tested positive for the coronavirus. The virus had other ideas. ...
DULUTH, Minnesota — USA Luge will conduct a slider search in Duluth, Minnesota, later this month. The national organization’s recruiting tour begins its off-season search that will feature sleds on wheels. It’s starting later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic. But it will ...