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Marquette dominant at Marquette County Meet

MARQUETTE — Marquette swept team titles and the top two places individually in both varsity races at the Marquette County Meet in high school cross country held at Presque Isle Park in Marquette on Thursday. The Sentinels boys were especially dominant, with their runners posting the four fastest times and six of the top eight. MSHS scored 16 points to 49 for Negaunee and 75 for Westwood, with Ishpeming and Gwinn not having enough runners to post a team score. Marquette’s girls won the top two spots and five of the first seven while scoring 21 points as Negaunee had 34. Westwood, ...

3rd-set victories spell difference for winning teams

NEGAUNEE — Prevailing in both matches that went three sets, Westwood pulled off something of an upset against Negaunee with a 5-3 victory at the Miners courts in a high school girls tennis meet held Wednesday. NHS lost for the first time this season as the Patriots won three of four singles flights while the teams split down the middle in doubles. But Westwood got three-set triumphs at No. 1 singles and No. 2 doubles. Patriots’ top singles player Lyn Magnuson won 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) over the Miners’ Stella Lenten, while the WHS No. 2 doubles tandem of McKenna Olson and Lauren ...

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Today NMU events Football: vs. Tiffin, at Superior Dome, 6 p.m. (WUPT 100.3 FM) Women’s soccer: vs. Northwood, at Cedarville, Ohio, noon Volleyball: Cal State East Bay Tournament, at Hayward, Calif.: vs. San Francisco State, 4 p.m. EDT Sunday NMU events Men’s soccer: at Saginaw Valley State, at University Center, noon Tuesday High school girls tennis Marquette at Escanaba, 3:15 p.m. Munising at Gladstone, 4 p.m. Kingsford at Negaunee, 4:30 p.m. Ishpeming at Gwinn, ppd. to Sept. 14 High school girls & boys cross country Marquette at Flivver Invitational, at ...

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Today High school girls tennis Ishpeming at Westwood, 4 p.m. (tentative) High school volleyball Marquette at Calumet Copper Island Academy, 6:30 p.m. High school football Gladstone at Negaunee, 7 p.m. (WKQS 101.9 FM) North Central at Ishpeming, 7 p.m. (WRUP 98.3 FM) NMU events Volleyball: Cal State East Bay Tournament, at Hayward, Calif.: vs. Colorado School of Mines, 1 p.m. EDT; vs. Westmont College, 8:30 p.m. EDT Saturday NMU events Football: vs. Tiffin, at Superior Dome, 6 p.m. (WUPT 100.3 FM) Women’s soccer: vs. Northwood, at Cedarville, Ohio, ...

Sentinels, Patriots post solid victories

MARQUETTE — Marquette swept the doubles flights and pulled out a victory in the meet’s only three-set match to post a 7-1 victory over visiting West Iron County in a high school girls tennis meet held Wednesday. “I was really happy with the resilience we had at several flights,” Sentinels head coach Karl Thomsen said in an email detailing the meet. “Finding that ability to fight through the slumps is what we will need heading down the stretch.” He said as the fall tennis season is just about half over, with the first matches held in mid-August and the MHSAA Upper ...