MOUNT PLEASANT — When it was all said and done Saturday afternoon, things had gone pretty “pleasantly” for the Marquette football team. A week after picking up their first playoff win in a decade and their first ever at home, the Redmen traveled downstate and took down Mount Pleasant ...
HARRIS — The Manistique High School volleyball team rallied from losing the first set Friday night to defeat Bark River-Harris in four sets, 19-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-19, and win an MHSAA Division 3 district championship in Harris. “I think we just had to remind them of the style of play ...
Up next: MHSAA Division 6 district final: Negaunee (5-3 — 22.000 playoff points) at Calumet (4-3 — 23.033 points), next weekend at a time and day to be determined ------------------ ISHPEMING — Turnovers can be costly to a football team in the playoffs and even more so if the ...
"We got comfortable being uncomfortable, which is kind of our motto going forward." — Eric Mason, Marquette football head coach, on facing windy conditions to open the MHSAA playoffs on Saturday ----------------- MARQUETTE — The Marquette Senior High School football team looked like ...
GWINN — It wasn’t an easy climb, but the Negaunee High School volleyball team got to hoist a trophy on Thursday night. After having practices and matches come to a screeching halt two weeks ago, the Miners overcame those obstacles and took down Gwinn in four sets to win an MHSAA Division ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — An opponent with minimal flaws is a tough draw in tournament play. Iron Mountain hosted Mid-Peninsula Conference powerhouse Manistique in a Division 3 District 67 semifinal volleyball match Wednesday night, with the Emeralds winning in three straight sets, 25-16, 25-13, ...
ISHPEMING — A week off, even if you don’t go anywhere, sounds like a vacation, make that “staycation,” that none of us would like to miss. It seems to be a bit more of a mixed bag for the Westwood High School football team. The Patriots earned last week off as one of the top two ...
GWINN — The drought finally ended for the Gwinn High School football team on Friday when the Modeltowners traveled downstate and defeated East Jordan to get their first playoff win since 1999. Even though the Modeltowners came out ahead in the MHSAA Division 8 first-round game, GHS head ...
NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee football team was at a disadvantage last Friday since it hadn’t been allowed to practice for awhile before traveling to Gladstone for the first round of the MHSAA Division 6 playoffs. The Braves were also a team that beat the Miners earlier in the ...
ISHPEMING — The Negaunee and Gwinn high school volleyball teams posted straight-sets shutouts of their local opposition on Tuesday evening in the semifinals of their MHSAA Division 3 district tournament that is hosted by Gwinn. While no information was available from the Modeltowners’ ...
MARQUETTE — The Traverse City West High School volleyball team was looking to play aggressively from start to finish heading into Wednesday’s MHSAA Division 1 district semifinal match. They definitely accomplished that goal, beating Marquette 18-25, 25-19, 25-12, 25-20. The Titans used ...
"It took the Calumet (match) for us to learn that nothing good comes of it if we get outplayed on defense." — Ann Crandell-Williams, head coach, Marquette volleyball --------------------- MARQUETTE — The first big test for the Marquette Senior High School volleyball team went as well ...
MANISTIQUE — Manistique’s volleyball season will continue after they beat the Norway Knights in three straight sets on Monday night in the first round of the MHSAA Division 3 district tournament at the Emeralds’ gym. Manistique prevailed 25-15, 25-7, 25-9. Helmed by Hannah Burklund, ...
By Journal Sports Staff ENGADINE — Superior Central senior Kyle Frusti was named the Kicker of the Year in the Great Lakes Eight Conference in recent voting among the league’s teams. Frusti was also named as a quarterback on the eight-player football league’s all-conference team along ...
"This is the first time we’ve won a game at home in the playoffs, and I stressed that to them all week." — Eric Mason, head coach, Marquette Senior High School football -------------------- MARQUETTE — Halloween is reserved as a day for tricks and treats, and heading into the kickoff ...
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EAST JORDAN — Somewhere up there Dion Brown is celebrating. The late varsity head coach led a struggling Gwinn football program that nearly folded a few years earlier to playoff appearances in 2016 and 2018, the Modeltowners’ first in nearly 20 years. But Brown, 37, who once starred for ...
INDIAN RIVER — Sometimes an Upper Peninsula football team’s season comes to an abrupt halt below the Mackinac Bridge. That’s what happened to the Munising Mustangs on Saturday afternoon. The Mustangs were plagued by turnovers and a slow start, then weren’t able to recover as they ...
GLADSTONE — Negaunee didn’t let two weeks with pretty much no organized practices stop them from opening the MHSAA Division 6 playoffs with a road victory on Friday night as the Miners fended off Gladstone 28-14. Negaunee (4-3) visits Westwood (5-1) in a district semifinal matchup at 7 ...
MARQUETTE — Seven of the area’s 11 high school volleyball teams will be in action on Monday evening, with the other four taking the court against each other on election night Tuesday. The Monday seven are spread around Divisions 1, 3 and 4, with the Tuesday four going at each other in a ...