The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the week of March 4-8

LANSING — The Michigan High School Athletic Association announced in a fairly brief statement on Thursday afternoon that all postseason tournaments it conducts have been suspended immediately. Due to concerns over the coronavirus, the hockey, girls and boys basketball, gymnastics and Lower ...

ISHPEMING — Devastation is a strong word, but it’s the only one that really can be used to describe the heartache for several area high school sports teams that had dreams of winning a state championship in the next few days or weeks. Those dreams will have to remain just that, dreams, at ...

NEGAUNEE — Just like in the regular season, the Negaunee and Iron Mountain boys basketball teams can claim they did the best when it came to postseason honors handed out by the Mid-Peninsula Conference. They shared the league title after each finished with 11-1 marks in the M-PC, their only ...

"(Gaylord) didn’t come out like the team we saw the last time we played them. They proved themselves to be a worthy opponent." — Kameron Karp, junior, Marquette Senior High School boys basketball ---------------- MARQUETTE — March Madness most likely serves up plenty of thrillers, ...

RAPID RIVER — It was status quo in an MHSAA Division 4 district boys basketball opener here Wednesday night as Rapid River coasted past Superior Central 70-30. The Rockets (14-7) host Hannahville (16-5) in the championship game at 7 p.m. Friday. The Cougars finished 4-16. Hannahville ...

MUNISING — Defense wins championships, and that’s what the Munising varsity boys basketball team will need if it wants to challenge Negaunee in Friday night’s MHSAA Division 3 district tournament championship game. The Mustangs put out a strong defensive showing in Wednesday’s ...

HOUGHTON — Tonight’s MHSAA Division 4 girls basketball regional championship game has been moved from Kingsford High School to Michigan Tech. The move made sense as the teams battling for the regional title are both from Baraga County, L’Anse and Baraga. The game is schedule for 7 p.m. ...

The Marquette Senior High School varsity hockey team gets a send-off in style on Wednesday morning, receiving police and fire escorts out to the Michigan Welcome Center in Harvey. The team bus is located behind the pickup truck on the right side in this photo. The bus departed Lakeview Arena in ...

GWINN — A year ago when Negaunee faced Gwinn in an MHSAA district boys basketball tournament, the Miners prevailed by only two points in the championship game last season. In the rematch Wednesday, things went a lot smoother for Negaunee. For the second straight game, the Miners started off ...

"We ... put Emily in there to guard (Calumet’s) Jana Loukus, and she did an incredible job defensively." — Kurt Corcoran, Westwood girls basketball dshead coach, on junior Emily Nelson ------------- MARQUETTE — Emily Nelson had been poised to earn a spot in Westwood’s starting ...

KINGSFORD — Baraga used a swarming and disruptive full-court press for most of the game to edge Munising 51-49 Tuesday in an MHSAA Division 4 regional semifinal game at Kingsford Middle School. Mustangs senior Megan Matson led all scorers with 23 points, with she and her teammates attacking ...

ESCANABA — Five Marquette Senior High School players and their coach not only won seven honors, but swept the major awards when the Great Northern Conference held its boys basketball coaches’ postseason meeting on Friday in Escanaba. Brad Nelson was named Coach of the Year for leading the ...

KINGSFORD — Nobody can say they didn’t try. A valiant comeback fell a little short for the Carney-Nadeau girls here Tuesday night in a 53-47 basketball loss to the L’Anse Purple Hornets in an MHSAA Division 4 regional semifinal. The victory sets up the rubber match between L’Anse ...

GAYLORD — Coach Ben Smith must be wondering what he has to do to lead his Marquette girls basketball team to a regional championship. Not facing Midland Dow or Saginaw Heritage would probably be a good start. While the Redettes were coming off their sixth straight MHSAA Division 1 or ...

MARQUETTE — Junior Haddie Ketzenberger of Marquette Senior High School posted a state finals qualifying score in the MHSAA Region 1 gymnastics regional meet held at Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills High School on Saturday. Ketzenberger placed fourth on the balance beam with a score of 9.275 to ...

NEGAUNEE — Led by senior guard Tessa Leece being named Player of the Year, four Westwood players landed five girls basketball honors when the Mid-Peninsula Conference named its award winners recently. The Patriots were also winners of the conference with an 11-1 record, a game ahead of ...

"We needed to play our best ball tonight. We came close, just not close enough." — Cody Kangas, head coach, Manistique boys basketball ------------- NEGAUNEE — March is a crazy time for basketball as surprises occur nightly and sometimes a good team’s season ends far sooner than ...

HARRIS — No matter the stakes, sometimes simplifying the game is all you need to do to turn things around when they aren’t going your way. The Munising Mustangs found themselves trailing Bark River-Harris 26-19 at halftime of Monday’s MHSAA Division 3 boys basketball district tournament ...

UPSSA BOYS Final poll of season (1st place votes in parantheses) ---------------- Class ABC W-L Pts Pvs 1. Iron Mountain (7) 19-1 35 1 2. Negaunee 18-2 26 3 3. Marquette 17-3 23 2 4. Escanaba 13-7 14 4 1. Munising 18-2 ...