BIG RAPIDS — The season came to a sudden end for the Northern Michigan University volleyball team as the Wildcats lost in the semifinals of the GLIAC Tournament to Michigan Tech on Saturday afternoon. Playing at Ferris State, the Huskies prevailed 25-19, 25-22, 25-23. NMU (13-16) was one ...
Westwood boys 2019-20 schedule Home games in bold All times Eastern ------------------ Dec. 9 — at West Iron County, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 13 — at Ishpeming, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 16 — Hancock, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 20 — at Kingsford, 7:45 p.m. Jan. 8 — at Gwinn, 7:15 p.m. Jan. 10 ...
MARQUETTE — Last year Pickford was left heartbroken in the Superior Dome as it fell in the 8-player football Division 1 state finals game. On Saturday, the Panthers exited in jubilation by finishing the job this time, blowing out Portland St. Patrick 48-15 in the Division 2 title ...
MARQUETTE — A long trip almost from Indiana was worth it for the Colon football team after it won the MHSAA 8-player Division 1 state championship on Saturday in the Superior Dome. Behind some solid defensive play and the running of fullback Brandon Crawford, who finished with 205 ...
MARQUETTE — Junior Amber Huebner passed the ball to senior Erin Honkala for the game-winning basket with one tick of the clock remaining to lift Northern Michigan University to a 55-53 victory over St. Cloud State on Saturday. Huebner, a Marquette Senior High School graduate, found Honkala ...
HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech’s offense showed up in the third period with a two-goal comeback to beat rival Northern Michigan 3-2 in a WCHA game played Friday. The Huskies (6-6, 4-5 WCHA) have scored nine goals in the last three games, the most production in a three-game span in the ...
MARQUETTE — Sometimes in hockey, a team can give everything it can on the ice, but it just isn't good enough in the end. That's how Northern Michigan University head coach Grant Potulny felt Saturday after the No. 19-ranked Wildcats fell to rival Michigan Tech 3-2 at the Berry Events Center. ...
Marquette girls 2019-20 schedule -------------- Dec. 3 — at Escanaba, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 6 — vs. Brighton (at Petoskey tourney), 5:30 p.m. Dec. 7 — vs. Grandville or Petoskey (at Petoskey tourney), TBA Dec. 10 — Gladstone, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 13 — at Traverse City Central, 7 ...
Marquette boys 2019-20 schedule -------------------- Dec. 13 — vs. Petoskey (at Petoskey tourney), 5:30 or 7 p.m. Dec. 14 — vs. Grandville or Brighton (Petoskey tourney), TBA Dec. 17 — Gladstone, 7:15 p.m. Jan. 3 — at Negaunee, 7:15 p.m. Jan. 4 — Alpena, 1:30 p.m. Jan. ...
I’ve wondered that for awhile when it comes to firing coaches. At what point does a general manager or an athletic director look at what is happening on TV or what they’re reading in newspapers and say I can’t take it anymore with this man or woman? At the college level, there’s ...
SAULT STE. MARIE — Despite the double-double efforts of Baraga sophomore Carsyn Osterman, the Finlandia women’s basketball team wasn’t quite able to pull off the role of giant killers as NCAA Division II member Lake Superior State prevailed 60-52. Osterman scored 15 points, pulled down ...
MARQUETTE — In high school athletics, it’s always a tough when a season ends, because it draws out emotion of the young men or women. Friday night at the Superior Dome at Northern Michigan University, the Iron Mountain Mountaineers season came to an end, being defeated 43-7 by the ...
"Ultimately what you got to do is get the ball into the basket, and we really struggled with that part." — Troy Mattson, NMU women’s basketball head coach, on the Wildcats’ 45-32 loss at Minnesota-Duluth last Friday ----------------- MARQUETTE — Visiting Minnesota this time of ...
Gwinn girls 2019-20 schedule All times Eastern ---------------- Dec. 5 — Gladstone, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 9 — Bark River-Harris, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 13 — Iron Mountain, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 16 — Houghton, 7:15 p.m. Jan. 3 — at Manistique, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7 — Munising, 7:15 ...
MARQUETTE — Tickets cost $10 to watch both state championship games in 8-player football to be held at the Superior Dome in Marquette starting Saturday morning. The finals have been held in the dome for the past several years, with the playoffs split into two divisions also over the past ...
Gwinn boys 2019-20 schedule All times Eastern ----------------- Dec. 10 — at Munising, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 12 — Negaunee, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 18 — Ishpeming, 7:15 p.m. Dec. 20 — at Manistique, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 8 — Westwood, 7:15 p.m. Jan. 10 — at Gladstone, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15 ...
"Their goaltending has been phenomenal and it doesn’t matter which guy played for them, they all have great numbers." — Grant Potulny, NMU head hockey coach, on Michigan Tech’s defense ------------------ MARQUETTE — Heading into last weekend’s series with Alaska-Fairbanks, the ...
MARQUETTE — Freshman Ryan Palmbaum of the Northern Michigan University men’s soccer team was named to the All-Midwest Region Second Team by the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioners Assocation. The GLIAC Freshman of the Year led the Wildcats in all three scoring categories, notching ...
Have I got a deal for you! We’re leaving Saturday for Washington, D.C., though I better not tell you why. Wait! You mean you’d really accompany me to see the Detroit Lions play at the Redskins this weekend!?!? Well, sorry, I’m not really going, not even with the $7 seats I found ...
ASHLAND, Ohio — The Northern Michigan University volleyball team advanced through the first-round quarterfinals of the GLIAC Tournament with a road upset at Ashland, Ohio, on Wednesday evening. The No. 6-seeded Wildcats upended the No. 3 Eagles in a back-and-forth match in five sets, 25-23, ...