K.I. SAWYER — Steve Wakkuri recorded his third career hole-in-one at the Red Fox Run Golf Club on Wednesday. Using a 19-degree hybrid club, he aced the fourth hole off the gold tees and shot 54 for his nine-hole round. Witnessing the feat was Greg Mantyla.
MARQUETTE — The hockey Wildcats at Northern Michigan University will host their NMU Hockey Friends and Family golf outing in September. Using a four-plus-one format, the outing will be held using a shotgun start at 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, on the Greywalls course at the Marquette Golf ...
MARQUETTE — A pair of area high school softball players will represent Marquette County at all-star games presented by the Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association next Wednesday. The two seniors — Ishpeming’s Madison Pruett and Negaunee’s Payton Drew — have both been ...
MARQUETTE — The American Legion baseball program in Marquette decided to do something special for area veterans during the Blues’ regular-season finale at Gerard Haley Memorial Field on Wednesday afternoon. They invited them to the game. A bus filled with residents from the D.J. ...
MARQUETTE — The D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans brought some of its residents over to Gerard Haley Memorial Field for a Wednesday afternoon of baseball and the Marquette Blues American Legion team put on a good show for its guests. The Blues’ bats got hot early and stayed that way for ...
NEGAUNEE — Negaunee was eliminated in the Little League baseball District 11 tournament on Wednesday night as Portage Lake won a 7-2 decision in a loser’s bracket game played at Bernie Rivers Memorial Field in Negaunee. Portage Lake advances to face the champion of the winner’s bracket, ...
NEGAUNEE — The Ishpeming All-Stars earned a 5-3 win over Negaunee at Bernie Rivers Memorial Field on Tuesday night to punch its ticket to Thursday’s championship round in the Little League District 11 Majors baseball tournament. Ishpeming’s pitching contingent combined to hold Negaunee ...
BARK RIVER — Bark River refused to give up, but on the brink of tying it up, was struck down by the whims of fate. Instead, the Marquette Blues hung on to pull out a 7-6 win against the Bucs in an American Legion baseball game played here Tuesday. After the Blues scored three runs in the ...
"We hit the ball a lot and you know that makes the game." — Halen McCollum, Marquette Little League Majors all--star player ------------------- NEGAUNEE — When Marquette player Desmond Gleason was asked to comment on his team’s game on Monday night, he simply stated “Marquette takes ...
MARQUETTE — The dream of becoming a multimillionaire is apparently over for Marquette resident Dan Nygard at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. A list of more than a thousand survivors after Monday’s Day 3 at the event’s biggest tournament, the Main Event, didn’t list his ...
GWINN — Starting pitcher Riley Lynch and reliever Steve Hintsala combined on a six-hitter as the Marquette County Mavericks defeated the Negaunee Blasters 6-3 in a Superiorland Baseball League played at the Forsyth Township Ball Field Complex on Monday evening. In the other game reported ...
MARQUETTE — Club member Tom Petroff made his first hole-in-one memorable by getting his ace on the Fourth of July at the Marquette Golf Club. Petroff, who has golfed for more than 30 years, used a 9-iron to ace the 125-yard 17th hole on the Greywalls course on Thursday. Witnesses were ...
ESCANABA — The 72nd annual Michigan-Wisconsin Tennis Open takes place Aug. 3-4 at Ludington Park in Escanaba. All singles matches will be played Saturday and doubles Sunday. Cost — which includes a T-shirt — is $18 for singles and $22 for doubles. Checks should be made payable to Esky ...
More inside: U.P. Football All-Star Game featured in today’s Sports Snapshots. Page 6B --------------- MARQUETTE — Negaunee was among three Upper Peninsula schools receiving donations from the 12th annual U.P. Football All-Star Game that was played in Marquette on June 29. The Miners, ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal at the 12th annual U.P. Football All-Star Game on June 29
ISHPEMING — The Class of 1998 won a pair of games on Saturday to move into the championship game of the White Division of the Westwood High School Alumni Softball Tournament. Championship games were scheduled for Sunday morning and early afternoon. The ‘98ers first took out 1990-91 19-2 ...
ANTIGO, Wis. — The Marquette Legion Blues baseball team wrapped up its second straight weekend tournament by salvaging a split with two wins in Antigo, Wisconsin. After taking two losses on Saturday against Wisconsin teams Ashwaubenon and host Antigo, the Blues rebounded with a pair of wins ...
By Journal Sports Staff ANTIGO, Wis. — The Marquette Legion baseball team traveled west across the state border for the Antigo Tournament Saturday and the Blues didn’t get off to great start Marquette was handed a 4-2 loss by Ashwaubenon (Wis.) in its opener, and then a 5-0 defeat by ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — After earning its first GLIAC Tournament appearance ever this past spring, the Northern Michigan University lacrosse team will look to build on that next year as the Wildcats recently released their 2020 schedule. The season opens with three ...
Two years ago, I went on an amazing journey. Like Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings, I embarked to a place that was unappealing and intimidating, but it was necessary that I completed my adventure. That place was Green Bay, Wisconsin. As I said in my column back in 2017, growing up ...