CALUMET — After getting their nine-game winning streak snapped earlier this week by Sault Ste. Marie, the Marquette girls basketball team tried to bounce back Wednesday against Calumet. The Redettes led by two after the first quarter, but Calumet started to find its grove in the second and ...
NEGAUNEE - The maximum capacity of Lakeview Memorial Gymnasium in Negaunee is 2,630 persons. However, it felt like many more than that were in attendance for the Iron Mountain and Negaunee boys basketball game held there on Tuesday night. Rightfully so, as it was slated to be one of the ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Senior High School boys varsity basketball team collected a 62-41 home win over Houghton on Tuesday night thanks in part to four double-digit scorers. Ty Lotterman paced Redmen with 18 points followed by John Thomson with 15. Kam Karp and Drew Wyble each chipped in ...
MARQUETTE — The seven area teams that were ranked didn’t move an inch in this week’s Upper Peninsula high school basketball polls as voted on by select members of the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. There was almost no movement in the four polls, which were released ...
MUNISING — Not much went right for the Munising girls varsity basketball team on Tuesday night. The Mustangs suffered their fifth consecutive loss, falling 66-29 to Engadine at home. Munising fell to 5-9, while the Eagles improved to 8-4. “We’re turning the ball over way too many ...
ESCANABA — The Escanaba boys got all they could handle from the Manistique Emeralds Tuesday night, but in the end they prevailed with a 77-70 non-conference basketball victory in their first home game in exactly three weeks. The U.P.’s fourth-ranked Eskymos (8-4) looked like they were ...
MARQUETTE — The wonen’s cross country and track and field teams at Northern Michigan University will host their annual Dome Dash 5K on Sunday inside the Superior Dome. Known as unique for Marquette and the Upper Peninsula, the event allows runners and walkers of all ages to race inside ...
MARQUETTE — Area residents made plenty of noise at the top of the standings in some of the less well-known races at the 22nd annual Noquemanon Ski Marathon held Friday through Sunday. While the attention grabber was the 50-kilometer and 24K ski races, the 12K classic and freestyle also drew ...
Up next: Ferris State at Northern Michigan, 7 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday; Radio: WUPT The Point 100.3 FM ------------------ MARQUETTE — For the second time in three weeks, a pair of Northern Michigan University hockey players earned weekly awards from the WCHA. After wins in ...
ISHPEMING — Junior guard Chloe Norman led a balanced scoring attack as Negaunee broke open a close game in the fourth quarter for a 53-42 girls basketball victory at Ishpeming on Monday night. Norman finished with 15 points, making 4 of 4 free throws and one of her three 3-pointers in the ...
UNIVERSITY CENTER — Senior Katelyn Smith and freshman Jordan Butler each had runner-up finishes for Northern Michigan University’s best places at the Jet’s Pizza Invitational held at Saginaw Valley State on Friday and Saturday. Smith clocked 10 minutes, 13.55 seconds, just seven seconds ...
MUNISING — Senior Austin Killips sank three 3-pointers and scored a game-high 20 points to lead Munising past Engadine 57-39 in a high school boys basketball game played at the Mustangs’ gym on Monday night. Munising built leads of 13-6 after one quarter and 23-11 at halftime before ...
"I felt like I was in the movie ‘Frozen,’ waiting for Anna and Elsa to jump out of the woods at me." — Matt Liebsch, winner, 50K classic race at Noquemanon Ski Marathon -------------------- MARQUETTE — Newly fallen wet and heavy snow blanketed most of Marquette County on Friday ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the week of Jan. 16-20
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Long trips to Alaska can be grueling and getting points isn’t easy, but the Northern Michigan University hockey team fought through the fatigue and had a successful weekend. The No. 15 Wildcats got five out of a possible six points in an important series with ...
ALLENDALE — The Northern Michigan University men’s basketball team got its latest road trip off to a good start Thursday with a win over Davenport. But Saturday, the Wildcats outdid that performance as they stunned No. 11 Grand Valley State 75-73. NMU’s win puts it in third place in ...
ALLENDALE — Two days after picking up a solid victory over Davenport that kept the Panthers winless in the GLIAC, the Northern Michigan University women’s basketball team came up short Saturday against No. 3 Grand Valley State, falling 58-41. Erin Honkala led the Wildcats (9-10, 6-5 ...
MARQUETTE — When the lights go down and the spotlight illuminates the mat at the Upper Peninsula Championships, it’s time for wrestlers to shine. And it was the Escanaba Eskymos who did it the brightest on Saturday. Escanaba won the 11-team tournament with 209 points and five individual ...
SAULT STE. MARIE — The Marquette Senior High School hockey team warmed up for its trip to this weekend’s Michigan Public High School Hockey Showcase with a two-game sweep of Port Huron Northern at the Sault Ste. Marie Tournament on Friday and Saturday. The Redmen defeated the Huskies 6-2 ...
BOYNE FALLS — A Munising High School graduate and former Mustangs basketball coach recently reached a career milestone while coaching in the Lower Peninsula. Frank Hamilla, a 1980 graduate of MHS, earned his 400th boys varsity victory while coaching at Boyne Falls on Jan. 16. The Loggers ...