KINGSFORD — Negaunee needed three sets at several flights, but powered its way to a sweep of doubles in a 7-1 victory at Kingsford in a high school girls tennis meet held Monday. The Miners’ Shayla Williams and Maci Austin won 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 over Maggie Meneghini and Karlee Hulkkonen at ...
MANISTIQUE — The Manistique boys kept a championship trophy at home here Wednesday, earning top honors in their own invitational cross country meet. Manistique, placing four runners among the top eight, scored 30 points. The Emeralds were followed by Engadine 53 and Mid Peninsula ...
MARQUETTE — Heading into this season, Northern Michigan University head cross country coach Jenny Ryan knew that she had a great recruiting class coming to Marquette. However, even she was surprised with how well they performed in their first meet. The Wildcats as a team finished tied for ...
NEGAUNEE — The Marquette volleyball team earned a three-set win over Negaunee at Lakeview Memorial Gym on Tuesday night. The Redettes (11-2) topped the Miners (2-2) 25-19, 25-15, 25-14. MSHS head coach Ann Crandell-Williams said it was nice to earn a win over a rival, but still sees some ...
HARRIS — Flip the script. That was the pregame message to the Bark River-Harris volleyball players from assistant coach Jason Lockwood before their match against Munising here Tuesday. Tired of losing to the Mustangs, the Broncos showed incredible fight and toughness to pull out a 3-2 ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Will somebody please turn on the air conditioner? If it were possible to run cross country meets indoors, that request would have likely been granted here Tuesday. Since that’s not the case, runners had to be prepared to deal with the heat and humidity in the Kingsford ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette boys soccer team picked up a dominant victory Tuesday as the Redmen shut out Escanaba Bayside SC 6-0. Marquette’s defense was stifling as it held Escanaba to only two shots, both of which were saved by goalkeeper Harrison Anthos. Trevor Salmon got the Redmen on ...
K.I. SAWYER — Three duos were named champions in Red Fox Run’s annual 2-Man Senior Scramble on Thursday. Golfers were flighted based on the youngest of each pair. Kurt Hedstrom and Martin Ghiardi won the 70 years-and-over group, with John Erickson and Dennis Erickson finishing as ...
MARQUETTE — Membership in the Young Wildcat Club will net a youth season ticket to all Northern Michigan University home athletics events. Children in grades 8 and below can join the club for $30, which also includes an official T-shirt and membership card that serves as the season ticket. ...
NEGAUNEE — The 14th annual Iron Oars Regatta will be held on Teal Lake in Ishpeming and Negaunee on Sunday morning and afternoon. Sponsored by the Upper Peninsula Community Rowing Club, the event runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., starting at the west end of Teal Lake and heading east for about ...
"Regardless of who we’re playing, we really want to focus on what we can do to better ourselves." — Amy Nixon, head coach, Manistique volleyball ------------------- ISHPEMING — Manistique improved to 9-1-1 this season after topping Ishpeming in straight sets during a Mid-Peninsula ...
MIDLAND — Four runners from the Northern Michigan University women’s cross country team placed in the top 10 to help the Wildcats finish as a close runner-up at the Northwood Invitational on Saturday. NMU tied Saginaw Valley State for first place with 32 points, but the Wildcats lost on a ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Golf Club saw a pair of golfers record holes-in-one during their recent club championship tournaments. Ray DesJardins registered his third career ace on the Greywalls course, using a 7-iron to hole out his tee shot on the 121-yard sixth hole. It was witnessed by ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University women’s soccer team split its first two games of the season on the road in Minnesota over the weekend. The Wildcats shut down St. Cloud State 2-0 on Sunday after falling at Minnesota-Duluth 1-0 on Friday. On Sunday, NMU got both its goals in ...
ISHPEMING — Munising swept singles and won three of four doubles flights to record a 7-1 high school girls tennis victory at Ishpeming on Monday afternoon. The match had been originally scheduled for today. Among the Mustangs’ winners were Logan Peters at No. 1 singles, where she defeated ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University sophomore volleyball player Hailey Wickstrom was named to the all-tournament team at the Keweenaw Classic held at Michigan Tech in Houghton on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Wickstrom, a Calumet High School graduate, finished the four-match weekend ...
ESCANABA — Munising High School graduate Lauren Peters set the pace for Bay College runners at the collegiate cross country meet held at Concordia University in Mequon, Wisconsin, on Saturday. In the Norse’s first meet of the season, Peters, a sophomore at Bay, ran the six-kilometer ...
"Wasn’t it nice to play defense?" — Kyle Nystrom, head coach, NMU football ---------------- MARQUETTE — The drought has come to an end in Marquette. For the first time in three years, the Northern Michigan University football team opened its season with a victory and did so in ...
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LAKE LINDEN — It was only fitting that Ishpeming and Lake Linden-Hubbell would play a classic game of football Saturday afternoon. After all, the Hematites (2-0) and Lakes are two of the most prominent small-school programs in the state with a number of deep playoff runs over the past three ...