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 ...
NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee Alumni Softball Tournament got off to an exciting start Saturday as the Negaunee Public Schools staff defeated the 2019 Miners 6-5 in extra innings. Luke Anderson went 3 for 3 at the plate for the staff and drove in the winning run. Jake Skewis went 2 for 3 with a ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University cross country team’s streak of NCAA Division II National Championships bids came to an end last fall, but the Wildcats return a solid core of runners this year and they got a head start recently as they announced this ...
By EDDIE O’NEILL Houghton Daily Mining Gazette LAKE LINDEN — A diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes at the age of 8 was not going to stop Ben Wilson from doing what he loved to do: play sports. On the contrary, it was athletics that has kept him healthy and positive over the past ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Thirty-nine student-athletes at Northern Michigan University were named to the All-Academic and All-Academic Excellence teams by the GLIAC recently. Women’s outdoor track and field led the Wildcats’ varsity programs with 19 honorees among both ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — The Marquette Reds Junior Legion baseball team celebrated its Independence Day in a big way as it earned a 19-4 win over the Marquette Little League All-Stars Thursday. Skylar Robertson was the Reds’ star at the plate as he went 3 for 4 with six RBI. ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE – After another strong season in 2018-19, the Northern Michigan University women’s golf team got a head start on this year as it recently announced its 2019-2020 schedule. This season, the Wildcats will compete in nine meets in five different states. ...