MARQUETTE — The Wildcat Aquatics Club of Marquette not only qualified three swimmers for the 12-years-and-under Wisconsin USA State Championship Meet held Feb. 28-March 1, but won the Division 3 state title as well. These swimmers had top-five finishes: • Kaytlin Roell, 9-10 age group ...
EAST LANSING — Fall sports at Michigan high schools will start on time, officials said Friday, although the schedule could change if coronavirus trends get worse. Football practices can start Aug. 10, followed by other fall sports two days later, the Michigan High School Athletic ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — It may take a lot to top the Marquette Reds’ opening game at the Upper Peninsula Junior Baseball League Tournament played in Iron Mountain on Thursday. Luke Mead doubled on a 1-0 count in the bottom of the eighth inning to knock in the tying and winning runs of the Reds’ ...
MARQUETTE — Former Northern Michigan University golfers Austin Elsner and Hunter Mires teamed up to win the championship flight at the Marquette 2-Man Best Ball Tournament hosted by the Marquette Golf Club last weekend. Elsner and Mires sizzled on the opening day Saturday with 62, then ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Blues built a five-run lead in the fourth inning but had to hold on for a 6-4 victory over the Gladstone Indians in an Upper Peninsula Under-19 Baseball League game played Wednesday at Haley Memorial Field in Marquette. The visitors scored twice in the fifth inning ...
"(Southern Illinois) had too much to offer to me to pass up the opportunity." — Foster Wonders, senior-to-be basketball player, Iron Mountain High School ------------------ IRON MOUNTAIN — High school student athletes with elite NCAA talent are few and far between in the Upper ...
LAS VEGAS — Mikaela Mayer made history Tuesday evening, but more importantly, she earned the win. Mayer improved her professional record to 13-0 with five knockouts as she outboxed Helen Joseph over 10 rounds, earning a unanimous decision at the MGM Grand “bubble.” Two judges scored ...
GLADSTONE — A 36-hole tournament turned into 41 holes on Tuesday at the conclusion of the 16th annual Upper Peninsula Golf Association Senior Men’s tournament at the Terrace Bluff Golf and Country Club in Gladstone. Tim Kramer of Riverside Country Club in Menominee, the first-day leader, ...
MARQUETTE — In the long list of canceled events this spring and summer, add the Marquette Marathon to the group. Race director Forrest Karr, also athletic director at Northern Michigan University, announced Tuesday on behalf of the organizing committee that the marathon and affiliated ...
GLADSTONE — Scott Saari of Wawonowin Country Club in Champion made the championship flight after Monday’s first day of the Upper Peninsula Senior Golf Championship at Terrace Bluff Golf and Country Club in Gladstone. Saari, the 2018 champion of this tourney, shot 74 during the 16th annual ...
MARQUETTE — Monday’s announcement that the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association was canceling fall sports for its members affects in particular one Upper Peninsula school, Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba. It will probably affect Gogebic Community College in Ironwood, ...
Tonight: Mikaela Mayer (12-0, 5 KOs) vs. Helen Joseph (17-4-2, 10 KOs), 9 p.m., ESPN ----------------- LAS VEGAS — Jamel Herring was supposed to fight Tuesday night as part of a feel-good card topped by two boxers who had tested positive for the coronavirus. The virus had other ideas. ...
DULUTH, Minnesota — USA Luge will conduct a slider search in Duluth, Minnesota, later this month. The national organization’s recruiting tour begins its off-season search that will feature sleds on wheels. It’s starting later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic. But it will ...
"Each group of all-star players has spent their entire high school careers working hard to earn the awards and honors that will get them a chance to participate in this event." — Todd Goldbeck, executive director of Xcel Foundation, which conducts the U.P. Football All-Star ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the 2019 high school volleyball season
On the Net: For a listing of NJCAA honored teams, visit www.njcaa.org -------------------- ESCANABA — Three area student-athletes were among 15 from Bay de Noc Community College to be named to 2019-20 all-academic teams by the National Junior College Athletic Association. The national ...
CHAMPION — Ryan Meyer recorded a hole-in-one on Tuesday at the Wawonowin Country Club in Champion. Meyer used a 9-iron to ace the 136-yard, par-3 13th hole. Witnesses were Mark Clements, Tom Farley and Dan Oja.
MARQUETTE — Motorsports author Joe Verdegan will host a signing of his most recent book, “Racing in the 906,” at Sands Speedway in Sands from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday. The book features an extensive look at stock car racing history in the Upper Peninsula, with a big part of it covering the ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Blues picked up the tying and go-ahead runs without benefit of a hit to take a 5-3 home victory over the Escanaba Cubs in an Upper Peninsula Under-19 Baseball League game on Wednesday evening at Haley Memorial Field in Marquette. Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the ...
Today’s games: Marquette Reds host Gladstone Junior Braves in a doubleheader at 5 p.m. ------------------- IRON MOUNTAIN — Iron Mountain wasn’t the place to be for Marquette Reds batters if they wanted to improve their batting averages on Tuesday night. The junior-age team visitors ...