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Today High school girls & boys cross country Manistique at Kiwanis Invitational, at St. Ignace, time TBD High school volleyball Munising at Ishpeming, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday High school girls & boys cross country Negaunee, Ishpeming, Westwood, Newberry at Negaunee Invitational, at Negaunee Township Trails, 4 p.m. High school volleyball Newberry at Pickford, 5:45 p.m. Marquette at Gwinn, 6:30 p.m. Ishpeming at Houghton, 6:30 p.m. Negaunee at Hancock, 6:45 p.m. Ewen-Trout Creek at Baraga, 6:45 p.m. Gladstone at Westwood, 7 p.m. Wakefield at L’Anse, 7 ...

Miners finish dual meet season with win

NEGAUNEE — Negaunee pulled off a 6-2 home victory over Kingsford on Thursday in the final dual meet of the high school girls tennis season for the Miners. Negaunee, which finished with a dual-meet record of 14-1, was coming off a runner-up finish to Westwood at the Mid-Peninsula Conference meet a day earlier, where the Patriots prevailed in six of the eight championship matches against Miners’ players. “With this being our last dual meet before (the MHSAA U.P. Finals in Division 1), we knew we needed to come into it with focus,” Negaunee head coach Megan Kerkela said in an ...

Sentinels dominate finals to capture GNC meet

MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School put its stamp on the Great Northern Conference meet in the championship matches, winning five of the six it was entered in to capture this high school girls tennis title on Wednesday. Playing on its home courts, the Sentinels scored 34 points to 28 for runner-up Escanaba. Gladstone was third with 21, followed by Kingsford with 20, West Iron County 10 and Menominee seven. Each of these teams — except WIC, which was entered in the GNC tourney as a team without a conference in this sport — will play in Wednesday’s MHSAA Upper Peninsula ...

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Today High school girls & boys cross country Munising, Superior Central, Baraga at Bay College Invitational, 10 or 11:30 a.m. NMU events Volleyball: at Grand Valley State, at Allendale, 3 p.m. Sunday NMU events Women’s soccer: at Saginaw Valley State, University Center, 1 p.m. Men’s soccer: at St. Cloud State, at St. Cloud, Minn., 3 p.m. EDT Monday High school girls & boys cross country Manistique at Kiwanis Invitational, at St. Ignace, time TBD High school volleyball Munising at Ishpeming, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday High school girls & boys cross ...

Ballard, MSHS boys dominate at El Harger cross country

MUNISING — Senior Lucas Ballard was just as dominant individually as his Marquette Senior High School team was in the boys meet at the El Harger Invitational in high school cross country held Wednesday afternoon at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in Munising. Ballard won his race by what was approaching two full minutes in 15 minutes, 56.1 seconds. Runner-up Ashdeyn Gerow of Mid-Peninsula was well back in 17:44.0. And Ballard was just the tip of the iceberg for the Sentinels boys, who claimed seven of the top nine places to take the team title with 19 points. Gladstone was runner-up ...