"I know that this week is going to present some real challenges." — Dave Poggi, NMU head men’s soccer coach, on playing at Ashland and Davenport this week -------------- MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University men’s soccer team is feeling pretty good right now. After ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University women’s soccer team returns home for games Friday and Saturday afternoons at the NMU Soccer Field. The first game will be an attempt at quick revenge against Wisconsin-Parkside at 4 p.m. Friday after the Rangers defeated NMU 2-1 last weekend. ...
MARQUETTE — Mike Marietta recorded his third career hole-in-one on Sunday at the Greywalls course of the Marquette Golf Club. He used a 7-iron on the 145-yard 17th hole. Witnesses were Chad Wester, Rich Koskey, Mark Revord, Erik Revord and Matt Adamaczyk.
Now maybe we’ll be rid of the Antonio Brown saga, but I highly doubt it because of his ties to Central Michigan University. Brown is the ex-Pittsburgh Steeler, ex-Oakland Raider and barely an ex-New England Patriot after he was let go by all three teams in the past year. He forced his way ...
KINGSFORD — Marquette swept through the Great Northern Conference high school girls tennis meet like the strong wind did at times on Wednesday at the Kingsford High School tennis facility. The Redettes won the team titles by a wide margin of 10 points, scoring 24. “As a team, I thought ...
NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee girls tennis team cruised to two wins Tuesday, sweeping Ishpeming and Gwinn both by perfect 8-0 scores. The Miners decided to move some players around in both meets and judging by the scores, they all performed well. In the Ishpeming meet, Negaunee didn’t drop ...
MARQUETTE — At this moment, the Northern Michigan University football team has nothing to lose. That’s the kind of attitude NMU is taking with it while heading downstate this weekend to face No. 2 Ferris State. The Wildcats know that the odds are stacked against them against the powerful ...
MARQUETTE — Freshman Max Dawson keyed Marquette’s fast start as the Redmen blanked Iron Mountain 6-0 at home on Tuesday evening. Dawson scored both of the Redmen’s first-half goals and sophomore goalkeeper Harrison Anthos made it stand up by stopping all three shots on net he faced, ...
MARQUETTE — The star of the Northern Michigan University’s overtime victory last weekend was named GLIAC Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. Senior Luca Lippert of Langen, Germany, scored all three of his team’s goals in the Wildcats’ 3-2 home victory over GLIAC ...
HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech Huskies volleyball coach Matt Jennings was pleased that his team earned another victory Tuesday night, extending their current streak to four straight matches. They beat the visiting Northern Michigan Wildcats, 25-16, 27-25, 25-23. It was not easy, as the final ...
MUNISING — Gladstone sophomore Giovanni Mathews made Tuesday a special day as he captured his first varsity cross country title in the Munising Invitational. Mathews covered the 3.1-mile course at Pictured Rocks Golf & Country Club in 17 minutes, 25.15 seconds. He was followed by ...
ISHPEMING — The Gwinn volleyball team earned a nice win Tuesday night, sweeping Westwood 3-0 on the road. The Modeltowners took the match (25-15, 25-18, 25-16) with the help of some strong offensive play from Emily Curtice, Halle Beauchamp and Tianna Taylor. The threesome combined for 19 ...
MANISTIQUE — The Manistique High School volleyball team made quick work of Ishpeming on Tuesday night, crusing to a three set victory, 25-12, 25-8, 25-15. “I think we served really aggressively. We had 21 aces overall, which I think is pretty aggressive as far as serving goes,” ...
FINDLAY, Ohio — The Northern Michigan University men’s golf team finished in a tie for 15th in an 18-team field at the Doc Spragg Fall Invitational hosted by Findlay University and held Monday and Tuesday at the Findlay Country Club. The Wildcats totaled 917 for three rounds, shooting ...
HANCOCK — L’Anse graduate Reese Waara scored a long touchdown pass and finished with four reception for Finlandia, which lost a college football game at home on Saturday 23-12 to Concordia-Chicago. In the latter stages of the second quarter and the Lions trailing 14-0, Waara was part of a ...
UPSSA High School Football Polls -------------------- This week’s U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association poll (with first-place votes, if any, record, total votes and last week’s poll position): -------------------- Large Schools 1. Calumet (4) 4-0 36 2 2. ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University volleyball team has one of their highlight weeks of the season with a trip to big Upper Peninsula rival Michigan Tech tonight and their first two regular-season matches at their home Vandament Arena later this week. The Wildcats host U.P. and ...
ESCANABA — Negaunee put a goose egg on the board as it shut out Escanaba 8-0 in a high school girls tennis meet held Monday. The Miners won every flight in two sets except for No. 3 doubles. In the other seven flights combined, NHS lost just 28 games. The Escanaba No. 3 doubles tandem of ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette swept the top three flights in both singles and doubles to record a 6-2 high school girls tennis victory over visiting Kingsford on Monday afternoon. The Redettes dropped 10 games combined in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 singles and the same number in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Manistique continued its winning ways Monday, sweeping to a three-set victory in a high school volleyball match at Iron Mountain, 25-12, 25-20, 25-13. “We played pretty strong tonight,” Emeralds coach Amy Nixon said. “We put up a big front at the net as far as blocking ...