MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University hockey team is eager to get going in the 2018-19 season after its schedule was announced Wednesday. That’s especially true after a successful season under first-year head coach Grant Potulny that included a second-place finish in the WCHA and a ...
OMAHA, Neb. — A former Northern Michigan University hockey player died Tuesday morning. Matt Thurber passed away at age 28 in Omaha, Nebraska. According to a Wednesday article in the Bakersfield Californian, where he played a year of minor-league professional hockey, the nature of his ...
MARQUETTE — There were many cancellations Wednesday around Marquette County, but the Marquette girls soccer team toughed it out in the rain at the Kaufman Sports Complex. The game against Sault Ste. Marie was a frustrating one for the Redettes as they had to not only battle the elements, but ...
NEGAUNEE — Superior Central needed a game to get its legs under it, but Negaunee was still able to prevail for a high school baseball doubleheader sweep on Wednesday. Playing on what Miners’ coach Jason Siik called “a moist field,” NHS prevailed 11-1 in four innings and 13-12 in ...
GLADSTONE — The Marquette boys finished runners-up and the girls fifth at the second Great Northern Conference meet of the season on Tuesday at Terrace Bluff. The Redmen had 166 total strokes with each competitor playing nine holes while the host Braves had 160. Escanaba was third with 171, ...
MANISTIQUE — Newberry made a run at Sault Ste. Marie in the boys meet, but ultimately the Blue Devils swept both titles at the Manistique Invitational held Tuesday. The Indians boys scored 109 points, just a dozen points behind the victorious Soo. That was despite Newberry winning three ...
"Things are starting to get better now that we’ve been outside and can practice outside." — Kevin Bell, boys track and field coach, Negaunee ----------------- NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee track and field teams have built up a reputation for being one of the best in the Upper Peninsula and ...
By Journal Sports Staff BIG RAPIDS — The Northern Michigan University women’s golf team slipped one significant spot on the second day of the three-day NCAA Division II East Super Regional on Tuesday. The Wildcats fell from third to fourth place with the top three teams advancing to the ...
MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University women’s track and field team travels to the western suburbs of Chicago in Naperville, Illinois, for the Dr. Keeler Invitational at North Central College on Thursday and Friday. This is its last opportunity to improve their national standing in ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Negaunee softball team continued to hit the ball well as the Miners swept another doubleheader Tuesday afternoon. Negaunee defeated Iron Mountain 14-8 in the first game before pounding the Mountaineers 15-0 in the second contest. “We started off the first game ...
GWINN — Munising looked dominating in just its third match of the season with a 7-1 high school boys tennis victory at Gwinn on Tuesday. “We are really just gaining match experience, but the season is short, so the players need to learn their lessons quickly,” Mustangs coach Rod Gendron ...
Up next: Wednesday: Escanaba at Marquette (doubleheader), 4 p.m. Wednesday: Superior Central at Negaunee (doubleheader), 4 p.m. --------------- NEGAUNEE — Marquette had a strong day offensively as the Redmen swept Negaunee in a high school baseball doubleheader, 10-1 in the opener ...
BIG RAPIDS — The Northern Michigan University women’s golf team is in third place among 12 teams after the first day of the three-day-long NCAA East Super Regional. The Wildcats posted a score of 301 strokes through the first 18 holes and are four strokes ahead of fourth place. NMU ...
GLADSTONE — Ishpeming notched its first victory of the high school boys tennis season Monday as the Hematites took down Gladstone 5-3. The teams split the four singles matches with Ishpeming’s Hart Holmgren dispatching Sean Holm 6-1, 6-3 at No. 1 and the Hematites’ Trevor Freeman ...
MARQUETTE — The Rolling Riptide, a Marquette Dead River Derby roller derby team, defeated their long-standing rival Chippewa Valley Roller Derby of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to open the season recently. DRD won 143-134.
NEGAUNEE — Negaunee has hit the ball hard and done it consistently the past few games. That included in a doubleheader Monday at home against Westwood. After holding off the Patriots 6-2 in the opener, the Miners exploded in the nightcap, winning 20-5. In the opener, Negaunee (13-4) ...
MINOCQUA, Wis. — The Marquette Senior High School girls soccer team split a pair of games against Wisconsin teams at the Lakeland Union Invitational over the weekend. The Redettes lost the shootout of a 1-1 game against Hayward on Friday before bouncing back for a 3-0 shutout of Washburn on ...
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IRONWOOD — Last year’s Kiwanis Border Bash all-star basketball game wasn’t going to be easy to top, not with members of the three-time Michigan state champion North Central boys team filling the Lindquist Center gym and leading the Northern Michigan team to a victory. “That’s what ...
ASHLAND, Ohio — The Northern Michigan University women’s track and field team completed the GLIAC Championships with 11 all-league honors, two conference champions and an overall third place finish on Friday in Ashland, Ohio. And NMU head coach Jenny Ryan was named the GLIAC Women’s ...