ISHPEMING — A strong start wasn’t enough for the Gladstone boys here Tuesday night in a 69-51 basketball loss to the Westwood Patriots. “I thought we played a real nice first quarter,” Braves’ coach Dane Quigley said. “We scored 22-23 points, which is right where we wanted to be, ...
HOUGHTON — It is not often that when two teams play to a 6-2 score in a high school hockey game, both coaches feel the opposite way of how conventional wisdom says they should feel. That is exactly what happened Tuesday evening at Dee Stadium. The Division 3 No. 5 Houghton Gremlins ...
ST. NICHOLAS — A 20-point second quarter was the difference for the Mid Peninsula boys basketball team in a 52-36 home win over Superior Central on Monday. This Skyline Central Conference matchup was tied 6-6 after the first quarter before the Wolverines (4-4, 2-4 SC) opened up a 26-14 ...
UPSSA Basketball Polls --------------------- BOYS Divisions 1-3 W-L Pts Pvs 1. Iron Mountain (7) 6-0 35 1 2. Negaunee 6-0 28 2 3. Marquette 5-2 18 3 4. Escanaba 4-4 17 4 5. Munising 7-0 7 — Division 4 W-L Pts Pvs 1. ...
MANISTIQUE — They needed extra time in Manistique on Monday night to decide a winner between the Emeralds and the visiting Munising boys basketball team. The Mustangs came out on top 66-59 after outscoring Manistique 9-2 in the extra period on the strength of making 7 of 8 free ...
KINGSFORD — Cole Hansen provided some senior leadership here Saturday, helping the Gladstone wrestlers place second in the Ray Mariucci Invitational. But it was the Marquette Redmen who won the meet with 194 1/2 points. The Braves were a close second with 176 1/2 while Negaunee was quite a ...
TRAVERSE CITY — A quick mid-game outburst was enough to propel the Marquette Senior High School hockey team to a 4-1 victory at Macomb Dakota on Saturday. The Redmen broke a scoreless tie with three goals in 126 seconds in the middle of the second period, while a fourth goal in the final ...
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ISHPEMING — In close-game situations, a team usually needs someone to step up and make a clutch shot. That someone for the Ishpeming boys basketball team on Friday night was Otto Swanson. It wasn’t a field goal, but rather a free throw which may have put even more pressure on the ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette won three events and Westwood two at the annual Splash-n-Dash high school swimming and diving meet held at Marquette Senior High School on Saturday. Though team scores weren’t kept, Sault Ste. Marie had the most success winning, taking five girls and three boys ...
MARQUETTE — Escanaba pulled out a five-point win over runner-up Marquette as Negaunee finished third at the Marquette Invitational gymnastics meet held Friday. Led by Abbie Derouin, the Eskymos scored 120.70 points, while the Redettes had 115.30 and the Miners 106.45. Marquette junior ...
EBEN — Kristin Goodacre scored 17 points, Natalie Belanger added 15 and the Rapid River Rockets cruised to a 53-29 road win over Superior Central Friday in a Skyline Central Conference girls basketball matchup. The Rockets (4-3, 4-2 SC) led 16-1 at the end of the first quarter and 26-12 at ...
ESCANABA — Two area wrestlers won championships at the Escanaba Elks Invitational held Jan. 4. Gwinn freshman Xander Luoma pinned Ishpeming senior Christian Carello at 1:43 to capture the 130-pound title, while another Hematites senior, Alaric Martin, won the title at 189 with a pin at 1:25 ...
KINGSFORD — With four players scoring in double figures, the Marquette Redmen overcame a five-point deficit to begin the second quarter and roll past the Kingsford Flivvers here Friday night 75-51 in Great Northern Conference boys basketball. Lincoln Sager led all scores with 19 points for ...
GLADSTONE — The Gladstone boys basketball team pulled ahead and held on against a Gwinn surge here Friday to win 75-56 in a Mid-Peninsula Conference game. The Braves finished the last two minutes of the first quarter on a 9-3 run to pull even at 17-17 going into the second. Despite a ...
ISHPEMING — Guarding Iron Mountain’s Foster Wonders and Marcus Johnson is a tall task. At least one of those All-Upper Peninsula Dream Teamers from last season, Johnson, was kept in check thanks to the work of Westwood sophomore Marcus Boase. Boase limited Johnson to just 10 points, his ...
MANISTIQUE — After a decent start, things fell apart for the Manistique girls in the second quarter of Negaunee’s 59-21 Mid-Peninsula Conference girls basketball win Friday. The Emeralds trailed just 17-9 after the first quarter, then were shut out in the second as they went into halftime ...
KINGSFORD — Kingsford came up with 15 steals and saw Marquette commit nearly 30 turnovers, but the Flivvers couldn’t cash in on the other end and fell 47-34 in a Great Northern Conference girls basketball game Friday afternoon to open a varsity hoops doubleheader. “We struggled to ...
"People think we’re going to beat everyone by 30 points, and that’s just not the case." — Kurt Corcoran, head coach, Westwood girls basketball ------------ ISHPEMING — Good basketball teams simply get the job done. They may not be flashy every time they step out on the court, but ...
ESCANABA — Coming into the season, everyone knew what junior forward Nicole Kamin and senior guard Taylor Ray would bring to the table for the Escanaba girls basketball team. As the season has progressed, the rest of the team has really started to gel, and the Eskymos look like a team who ...