CARNEY — Tessa Wagner proved to be a tough matchup for the Munising girls basketball team here on Saturday.
So did the rest of the Carney-Nadeau Wolves in a 64-24 basketball rout of the Mustangs.
The 6-foot-3 junior center scored 27 points in this Skyline Central Conference contest, ...
KINGSFORD — Speed and athleticism, Marquette had plenty of it Friday night as the Redmen defeated Kingsford, 50-35, in a Great Northern Conference boys basketball game played at the Kingsford Middle School gymnasium.
The game pitted two teams ranked in top five of the first Upper Peninsula ...
ISHPEMING — Zach Carlson scored 19 points and teammate Zach Beckman added 12 as Westwood felled Ishpeming 48-37 in a high school boys basketball game played at the Hematites gym on Saturday afternoon.
It came just two days after the teams tangled in an overtime thriller also won by the ...
HOUGHTON — Emilia Palomaki made 6 of 6 free throws, including four in the fourth quarter, and scored a game-high 20 points as Negaunee pulled out a 44-41 girls basketball victory at Houghton on Saturday afternoon.
“Another four-quarter battle for us,” Miners head coach Mike O’Donnell ...
NEGAUNEE — Senior Connor O’Dovero scored the game-winning goal 3:14 into overtime to lift the Negaunee High School hockey team to a 3-2 victory over Kingsford at the Negaunee Ice Arena on Friday evening.
With sophomore Tyler O’Dovero getting the assist on the winner, Patrick Klumpp got ...
EAST LANSING — The MHSAA has delayed the start of practices for spring sports by a week to March 22 and competition to March 26 to accommodate the extension of the winter sports season.
As voted on by the Representative Council, the MHSAA hopes the change will alleviate pressures on indoor ...
EAST LANSING — Due to coronavirus concerns, the MHSAA has revised its format for the high school bowling regionals and state finals tournaments.
The state high school athletics governing body stated that it wants to reduce the mixing of communities, and thus, spread of COVID-19, with its ...
ISHPEMING — It truly was the Zach Attack at Westwood High School on Thursday night. But not until the Patriots and Ishpeming played six periods of boys basketball.
A pair of junior-class Zacharys combined for 61 points as Westwood held off the Hematites 68-64 in double overtime.
Zach ...
GWINN — Natalie Prophet scored nine of her game-high 19 points in the first quarter as Westwood raced past Gwinn 51-32 in a high school girls basketball game played Thursday.
Prophet went 4 of 4 at the free throw line.
Ellie Miller and Megan Marta added 11 points apiece for the Patriots, ...
Editor’s note: With the start-and-stop of winter sports seasons this year, The Mining Journal is publishing high school basketball team previews from Marquette and Alger counties over a number of days. This story was written early this month.
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GWINN — Going from ...
Editor’s note: With the start-and-stop of winter sports seasons this year, The Mining Journal is publishing high school basketball team previews from Marquette and Alger counties over a number of days. This story was written in late January.
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EBEN — Superior ...
Editor’s note: With the start-and-stop of winter sports seasons this year, The Mining Journal is publishing high school basketball team previews from Marquette and Alger counties over a number of days. This story was written early this month.
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ISHPEMING — Westwood ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette’s Haddie Ketzenberger easily won the all-around title at a high school gymnastics meet that included Superior 7 and the host Miners at Negaunee High School on Wednesday evening.
The Redette senior won bars with a score of 7.50 points, beam with 8.50 and floor ...
ISHPEMING — Marquette won all but one event in dominating Westwood at a high school swimming and diving dual meet held Wednesday at the Patriots’ pool.
The Redettes won the girls meet 122 1/2-58 1/2, while the Redmen carried the boys meet 150-4.
Westwood’s lone win came in girls’ ...
NEGAUNEE — Alyssa Hill scored 14 of her game-high 18 points in the middle two quarters to lead Negaunee to a 43-29 victory over Hancock in a high school girls basketball game played Wednesday evening.
With Hill adding eight rebounds and five blocked shots to her stat line, teammate Lilly ...
By DAVER KARNOSKY
Houghton Daily Mining Gazette
HOUGHTON — It’s not often that a coach looks at his team’s 6-1 loss and feels that his team is making progress.
However, that is exactly how Jeffers head coach Patrick Nettell felt Tuesday after his hockey team’s loss to the ...
NEGAUNEE — Marquette could’ve used a fifth quarter on Tuesday night in a high school girls basketball game played at Lakeview Memorial Gymnasium in Negaunee.
The Redettes tried to dig themselves out of a 30-13 halftime hole but couldn’t generate enough offense to complete the deed as ...
HARBOR SPRINGS — Anna Grzelak led the Marquette girls to a runner-up finish at the MHSAA Division 1 Ski Championship held at Nub’s Nob on Monday.
Grzelak posted the Redettes’ fastest times in both the slalom and giant slalom as MSHS scored 60 points, just four shy of state champion ...
GWINN — Eli Luokkala scored 10 of his game-high 18 points in the third quarter to lead Negaunee to a 51-42 high school boys basketball victory at Gwinn on Monday evening.
Teammate Gerald Johnson got nine of his 17 points in the fourth quarter.
Luokkala helped the Miners break open the ...