MARQUETTE — The men’s soccer team at Northern Michigan University will try to use all the momentum it’s gathered this month for a road trip downstate and to Ohio against GLIAC foes this weekend. Working on a six-game unbeaten streak, the Wildcats travel to Ashland, Ohio, for a 7 p.m. ...
By Journal Sports Staff ASHLAND, Ohio — The Northern Michigan University men’s soccer team posted its fourth straight shutout while extending its unbeaten streak to seven games with a 1-0 victory at Ashland on Friday evening. The game’s only goal came in the 29th minute when sophomore ...
By Journal Sports Staff ISHPEMING — Westwood head football coach Scott Syrjala couldn’t really pick which was more dominant, his offense or his defense, in a 46-0 drubbing of Hancock on Friday night. The Patriots rolled up 411 yards offense, 389 of it on the ground as quarterback Nathan ...
Quote lift: “It’s nice to get it done this early and focus on some other things.” — JEFF OLSON, Ishpeming head coach, on clinching an MHSAA playoff spot By RYAN STIEG Journal Sports Writer GWINN — The last time the Ishpeming High School football team made the MHSAA playoffs, they ...
By BURT ANGELI Iron Mountain Daily News KINGSFORD — Marquette stuffed in a two-point conversion during the final seconds of the first half and held on to edge Kingsford 21-20 in Great Northern Conference football Friday at Flivver Field. The Redmen (3-3, 2-0) produced a 21-7 halftime, ...
By RYAN SPITZA Journal Sports Writer NEGAUNEE — Early mistakes from the Purple Hornets, combined with a strong offensive performance from junior quarterback Jason Waterman and the Miners offense, propelled Negaunee to a 40-6 high school football victory over L’Anse at Miners Stadium on ...
MARQUETTE — The last two Saturdays haven’t been easy for the Northern Michigan University football team at the Superior Dome as the Wildcats have had to battle national powerhouses Grand Valley State and Ferris State. NMU couldn’t pull off a gigantic upset against either of those top-10 ...
NEGAUNEE — With Upper Peninsula Finals looming for high school girls varsity tennis teams next week, five Mid-Peninsula Conference teams had one final chance to better their seeds at the M-PC meet hosted at the Negaunee High School tennis complex on Wednesday afternoon. The Miners won the ...
MARQUETTE — It’s been nine years of hockey and nine parades in the making. Today marks the start of the 10th anniversary of the Marquette Oldtimers Hockey Tournament, which includes its annual Hockey on Third Parade near the Lakeview Arena and Berry Events Center venues. The parade, ...
GLADSTONE — The Marquette Redettes had to wait things out a bit, but they made it worth their while Wednesday by edging the Menominee Maroons 22-20 for their second straight Great Northern Conference tennis title West Iron County placed third with 15 points and Gladstone took fourth at nine ...
I heard what sounded like a “throwaway” line by a former NFL player — didn’t catch at the time who it was — on Sunday making comments on one of that day’s upsets: “It’s just about impossible to get ‘up’ for every game,” he said. A simple line, but got me thinking ...
MARQUETTE — The regular season may still be a couple weeks away, but the 2018-19 WCHA college hockey season unofficially began Monday afternoon with the league’s annual media teleconference. During the extended phone call, coaches around the league as well as WCHA Commissioner Bill ...
MARQUETTE — Every college hockey season, there are changes to rules. This year isn’t any different as WCHA director of officials Greg Shepherd shared insights into several new rules on the league conference call with the media on Monday afternoon. Shepherd said that the NCAA Rules ...
MARQUETTE — The men’s soccer team at Northern Michigan University moved up one spot to No. 21 in this week’s edition of the United Soccer Coaches poll for NCAA Division II. The Wildcats (5-1-1, 2-0-1 GLIAC) began last weekend with its biggest offensive outburst in the three-year history ...
MUNISING — Emily Paupore of Negaunee and Adam Bruce of Gladstone each won individual cross country titles by nearly a minute at the El Harger Memorial Invitational held at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in Munising on Tuesday afternoon. Bruce won the boys meet in a course and meet record of 16 ...
L’ANSE — Iron Mountain scored a four-set victory over L’Anse, 22-25, 25-20, 25-17, 25-17, in a high school volleyball match held at the Purple Hornets’ gym on Tuesday. In another match played Tuesday, Negaunee also prevailed over Hancock in four sets, though scores and other details ...
FINDLAY, Ohio — The Northern Michigan University men’s golf team finished 15th in an 18-team field at the rain-shortened Doc Spragg Fall Invitational that went two rounds. Senior Austin Elsner led the Wildcats with rounds of 73 and 74 to finish at 3-over-par with 147 to tie for 21st ...
Wildcats’ hockey season openers: • First games: at Michigan State, Oct. 12-13 • First home games: vs. Bemidji State, Oct. 26-27 ------------------- MARQUETTE — Two Northern Michigan University forwards took a big step forward last season and for that, they were recognized ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Westwood’s No. 4 doubles team hung on to win a first-set tiebreaker and later a third set to lift the Patriots to a 5-3 high school girls tennis victory at Marquette on Monday afternoon. Westwood’s Claire Gilles and Jenna Wealton scored a 7-6 (7-4), ...
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 (6) 5-0 30 1 2. Escanaba ...