By RYAN SPITZA For the Mining Journal NEGAUNEE — Tristan Miller fanned 11 over four innings as the Negaunee All-Stars defeated Marquette 8-1 in the District 11 Little League Minors tournament at Bernie Rivers Memorial Field Saturday afternoon. Miller allowed zero hits and only two ...
ISHPEMING — Despite a late scare, Portage Lake was able to down Marquette 15-12 in extra innings to win the District 11 Little League Majors championship. Portage Lake started its scoring in the seventh inning with a dribbler down the left field line by Luke Frahm to score Cameron Circhke ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Iron Mountain Schools Board cast a unanimous vote to hire a Norway native as their next athletic director during Monday’s meeting. But this decision was not without some opposition from the public. Former North Central athletic director Joseph Pontbriand, a 2006 Norway ...
LIMINGA — The Tri-City North Stars of Negaunee came to the Leo Durocher Memorial Baseball Tournament title game with scorching bats, having trounced Wolverine-Orbit 15-3 in the semifinals earlier in the afternoon Sunday. And against Dean Kangas-State Farm in the title game, it appeared ...
LANSING (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker has introduced legislation that would ban the use of the Redskins mascot for public schools in the state. Republican state Sen. Wayne Schmidt of Traverse City serves Michigan's 37th Senate District, which covers the northwest part of the Lower Peninsula ...
ESCANABA — The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team won two of three games at the rain-shortened Escanaba Tournament over the weekend, defeating the host Cubs and Detroit-area team Milford while dropping a decision to the Eastern Upper Peninsula Travelers. “After struggling ...
By RYAN STIEG Journal Sports Writer MARQUETTE — It took a while for things to get exciting at the annual Upper Peninsula All-Star Football Game. Once they did, it created a memorable experience for both the players and the fans on Saturday afternoon at the Superior Dome in ...
Munising may be left without football conference in 2018 MUNISING — It looks something like the game of musical chairs with Munising the school left without a good place to sit for the time being. Members of the Mid-Eastern Football Conference — there will be five including the ...
By BURT ANGELI Iron Mountain Daily News IRON MOUNTAIN — The Western Peninsula Athletic Conference will have additional football teams in 2018. West PAC officials meeting Wednesday in Watersmeet approved Norway, Bark River-Harris and Lake Linden-Hubbell of the Mid-Eastern Football ...
GLADSTONE — The South team swept the North 8-7 and 14-4 in an Upper Peninsula Senior Softball All-Star doubleheader Wednesday at Gladstone High School. It was a great day to play softball, especially a game where the players and coaches could relax and have fun. “It’s a blast,” said ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette County Little League junior division quarterfinals wrapped up Friday night with Beauchamp Heating and Plumbing defeating U.P. Rehab 12-1 Friday night at Haley Field complex. Beauchamp Heating head coach Shane Cromell said it was an overall team effort that won ...
"It’s something to go up against some of the top athletes in the U.P., it’s hard competition." — Wyatt Goodwin, former Marquette Senior High School player, on the U.P. All-Star football challenges ------------------ MARQUETTE — The build-up for Saturday’s Upper Peninsula Football ...
"Everyone has become friends in the dorms, and this week is like a college experience." — Jace Briggs, Bark-River Harris player, member of Black team in U.P. Football All-Star Game ------------------- MARQUETTE — With the 2017 Upper Peninsula Football All-Star Game set for Saturday ...
More info: • What: U.P. Football All-Star Game • When: 1 p.m. Saturday • Where: Superior Dome, Marquette • Who: 90 elite U.P. players, including 26 from area teams, and 16 U.P. coaches, with 6 from area schools • Admission: $6 in advance, $7 at door. Order in ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal at the Upper Peninsula track finals in Kingsford on June 3
We had the best players in the U.P. playing each other, so it was a really great game. — dawson bilski, former North Central player, South boys team member in U.P. All-Star Classic MARQUETTE — North Central’s Dawson Bilski earned another basketball award for his trophy case ...
MARQUETTE — Taylor Bryant of Newberry put on a performance befitting a basketball MVP to lead the North to victory at the Upper Peninsula All Star Classic at Marquette Senior High School on Saturday afternoon. Bryant led the North in scoring with 13 points in the North’s 63-50 ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette golfers nearly swept the top finishes at the first stop of the Upper Peninsula Golf Association Junior Tour that was held at the Marquette Golf Club on Tuesday. Breaking the Marquette spell was Mika Jalkanen of Houghton, who won the boys 10- and 11-year-old boys ...
MUNISING — The Alger Regional Community Foundation will hold its 15th annual Youth Memorial Golf Tournament on Saturday at the Pictured Rocks Golf Course just outside Munising. Registration deadline is Thursday for both divisions of four-person teams, men’s and coed, where each team must ...
NEGAUNEE — For the second time in less than a week, the Marquette Blues downed the Negaunee Diamonds in an American Legion baseball game on Thursday night, this time by a 6-1 score at Irontown Field in Negaunee. Pitcher Blake Henriksen was the winner for the Blues, giving up one run on ...