Season openers can be hit or miss for any team, regardless of sport. For both the Gladstone and Ishpeming girls basketball teams, Thursday’s season opener at the Braves’ gym provided a little bit of both in the Hematites’ 41-26 victory. “It was sloppy. But the first games of the ...

ROCK — Senior Trent Rutter scored seven of his game-high 11 points in the third quarter as Superior Central improved to 5-0 less than two weeks into the season with a 41-23 boys basketball victory at Mid Peninsula on Thursday. Rutter led a Cougars’ 19-4 spree in the third that turned a ...

NEGAUNEE — Three swimmers were four-time winners as Ishpeming-Negaunee split a pair of high school swimming and diving meets with Westwood at the Negaunee High School pool on Thursday. The I-N Gators won 10 of 11 events to post a 94-27 victory in the boys meet, while the Patriots turned the ...

A year ago, when Lumen Christi was working its way towards a 12th football state championship, Kadale Williams was mostly playing defense. A sophomore at the time, Williams was behind veteran running backs Devian Franklin and Derrick Walker, as well as the Titans’ dual-threat quarterback ...

Superior Central boys 41, Mid Peninsula 23 -------------- THURSDAY -------------- Summary (field goals, free throws, total points) SUPERIOR CENTRAL — Adams 3-0-7, McDougall 1-0-3, Begovac 1-0-2, Frusti 3-1-7, Rutter 5-1-11, Bigger 4-0-8. Totals 18-2-41. MID PENINSULA — Lofquist ...

Upper Peninsula scores -------------------- THURSDAY -------------------- Girls Bessemer 62, Watersmeet 11 Calumet 47, L’Anse 31 Florence, Wis., 63, North Central 22 Forest Park 47, Norway 34 Hancock 49, Ontonagon 17 Ironwood 45, Ewen-Trout Creek 36 Ishpeming 41, ...