UPSSA High School Football Polls ------------------- This week’s U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association poll (with first-place votes, if any, record, total votes and last week’s poll position): ------------------- Large Schools 1. Escanaba (6) 5-1 34 3 2. ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — After mopping up at the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 2 girls tennis finals, it’s no surprise that Westwood also carted off the biggest and most pieces of hardware when All-U.P. honors were handed out recently. Patriots senior Madelyn Koski was named the Player of the ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette put on a perfect performance to sweep to the championship of the Northern Michigan University High School Invitational volleyball tournament held at Vandament Arena on Saturday. The Redettes won all 12 sets they played, including eight against four schools in pool ...
Negaunee senior Emily Paupore smiles with the medal she won at the Portage High School Invitational cross country meet held in the Kalamazoo suburb on Saturday. Entered in the top girls high school division, Paupore finished in ninth place out of 249 mostly Lower Peninsula runners in what ...
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HANCOCK — Westwood knew it had a good shot at beating Hancock on Friday night in a West PAC Copper Division football game — if it could limit the time of possession for the Bulldogs. That strategy worked perfectly. The Patriots’ success was also assured because it had senior back Taylor ...
L’ANSE — L’Anse varsity football head coach Mark Leaf knew he had his work cut out for him on the gridiron when the Negaunee Miners came to town on Friday night. But the workload got only harder just minutes into the game as Purple Hornets senior running back Jonah Dowd went down with ...
RUDYARD — Friday night started with two eight-player football teams looking to get back to the .500 mark as the Superior Central Cougars paid a visit to the Rudyard Bulldogs in a Great Lakes 8 Conference game. When the mud settled, the Bulldogs hung a 46-0 shutout on the Cougars and reached ...
ISHPEMING — Overtime football games aren’t a common occurrence in Marquette County or anywhere else in the Upper Peninsula. However, on Friday night, an area contest went into the extra session for the second time this fall. This time, it happened on the west end as Ishpeming ...
By RYAN SPITZA Journal Sports Writer MARQUETTE — Heartbreak is something all teams, players and fans will deal with every now and again. The Marquette Senior High School football team experienced heartbreak on Friday, unable to complete a late rally as the Redmen fell to ...
By Escanaba Daily Press MANISTIQUE — The Manistique Emeralds picked up a victory for homecoming on Friday, taking down Munising 29-7 in a West PAC Iron Division contest. The Emeralds (2-4) got another big performance from Schyler Andersen, who accounted for all four of their ...
GWINN — Gwinn prevailed over Gladstone in four sets at a high school volleyball match held Thursday evening. The Modeltowners won 20-25, 25-13, 25-14, 25-18 as Gwinn improved to 15-7-2 overall and 3-1 in the Mid-Peninsula Conference. GHS is also 4-0 in the West PAC. Gwinn coach Toni ...
FLAT ROCK — The outcome of a girls cross country race was decided by a matter of inches here Thursday as Kingsford junior Melanie Wenzel squeezed past Menominee sophomore Hayden Buck for top individual honors in the Gladstone Barnyard Classic. Each girl covered the 3.1-mile course in 20 ...
EAST LANSING — The Michigan High School Athletic Association came out Tuesday with a list of high school football teams with three or more wins through Week 5 of the season, and area teams making the list are firmly entrenched in the division they’ve traditionally been in. The MHSAA ...
"You never know who’s going to win. A couple of bounces here and there is all it takes." — Derek Sandstrom, head coach, Marquette girls tennis ------------------ NEGAUNEE — All good things must come to an end. After a five-year run as MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 champions, the ...
KINGSFORD — The Westwood Patriots continued their stranglehold at the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 2 Finals in girls tennis here Wednesday, winning their fourth straight title with 22 points. Westwood, which gained at least a share of title for the 10th time in 11 years, was followed by ...
MARQUETTE — Fall weather officially arrived in the Upper Peninsula Wednesday afternoon as temperatures fell below 50 degrees and an icy wind blew across the soccer field at the Kaufman Sports Complex in Marquette. But the cold didn’t seem to bother the Marquette boys team at all as the ...
"I’ve been wanting to run a PR (personal record) for a long time and I got it." — Talon Prusi, senior, Negaunee girls cross country --------------- CHAMPION — It was status quo on the cross country trails here Tuesday as the Houghton girls and Ishpeming boys continued to lead the ...
GLADSTONE — The Gladstone Braves had a little extra motivation in their volleyball match against Westwood here Tuesday. “I told them if they won by a sizable margin in the first two sets, they could do their crazy rotation they wanted to do (in the third set),” Braves’ coach Bill ...
CARNEY — Carney-Nadeau dominated Superior Central in a Skyline Central Conference volleyball match on Tuesday, sweeping the match in three sets, 25-13, 25-6, 25-13. SC led early in the first set, but after a serving error into the net, the Wolves found the momentum to stay ahead for good. ...