IRONWOOD — A year after missing much of his junior season because of a broken wrist, Northwestern's Sam Risley led the Tigers to the state tournament. The all-stater came up big in Wednesday's Kiwanis Border Bash also, hitting a pivotal 3 and the game-winning free throw in Northern ...
GLADSTONE — If there’s one thing coach Kelly Shea has preached to his Gladstone baseball team, its that it needs to get off to faster starts. The Braves picked a good time to do that, jumping out to a 4-0 lead and riding it to a 6-0 shutout win over Negaunee in a Division 3 regional ...
KINGSFORD — To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Alexander “Alec” Olivier of Marquette has been named the Upper Peninsula Division 1 boys tennis Player of the Year. Also no surprise was that Negaunee was named the Team of the Year. Olivier completed a perfect — as in never a loss — ...
IRONWOOD — Four girls and one boy from Marquette County, along with a girls player from Baraga, will try to lift the Northern Michigan team to victories at the sixth annual Kiwanis Classic Border Bash being held in Ironwood this evening. With all-star teams from northern Wisconsin providing ...
"I knew all that hard work she put in earlier in the year would pay off." — Vickie Paupore, Negaunee girls track coach, on her daughter and Miners junior Emily Paupore --------------------- KINGSFORD — Typically it may be hard to find a strong one-two punch on a girls track and field ...
The top 6 finishers in each event at the Upper Peninsula track and field finals held at Kingsford High School on Saturday. Members of relays are listed for first-place teams. A production of The Mining Journal, Escanaba Daily Press, Ironwood Daily Globe and The Sault ...
CHAMPION — While champions were crowned last week at the Upper Peninsula Finals in MHSAA high school golf, there was still one last grudge match to be settled on Monday afternoon between three western Marquette County schools. The annual WIN — Westwood, Ishpeming and Negaunee — meet ...
Up next: More stories from the U.P. track and field finals will be featured this week in Mining Journal sports, and look for a full listing of point scorers in all 3 divisions of the finals on Tuesday ------------------- KINGSFORD — There are some athletes who are just a step above others ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the week of May 23-28
ESCANABA — Marquette fell to Escanaba 5-4 in its opening game of the MHSAA Division 2 baseball district tournament played in Escanaba on Saturday afternoon. The Eskymos had reached the tourney semifinal after defeating Cheboygan 8-2 on Tuesday. Later Saturday, Petoskey won the district ...
NEGAUNEE — Negaunee needed extra innings against a surprisingly tough semifinal opponent, then breezed through the championship game to capture the MHSAA Division 3 district baseball championship at home on Saturday. Playing at its Iron Town Field, the Miners needed nine innings to fend off ...
KINGSFORD — The Ishpeming boys track and field team may not have been the favorite at the Upper Peninsula Division 2 Finals on Saturday. But by the end of the afternoon, the Hematites proved that meets are won on the track and not on paper as they repeated as U.P. champions. Ishpeming ...
L’ANSE — L’Anse put on a dominating offensive performance Saturday, winning the MHSAA Division 4 district softball tournament on Saturday. The Purple Hornets opened with a 10-0 victory in six innings over Gwinn before fending off Ishpeming 12-2 in seven innings in the championship. In ...
KINGSFORD — The Division 3 Upper Peninsula track and field Finals was pretty competitive in the individual events, but the team competition was over fairly quickly as the Bessemer boys and Lake Linden-Hubbell girls rolled. The Speedboys dominated, finishing with 136 points, 69 ahead of ...
NATIONAL MINE — There’s a first time for everything. In the case of the Negaunee varsity softball team, that time was last year when it won its first district championship in program history. Fast-forward one season later, and the Miners have prevailed in the district tournament again, ...
"I just wanted us to win so badly and we did." — Delaney Sall, 1,600-meter relay anchor, Marquette girls track and field -------------------- KINGSFORD — The Marquette and Negaunee girls track and field teams have had quite a battle the last three years at the Upper Peninsula Finals ...
KINGSFORD — It’s been said that all good things must come to an end and that’s what happened to the Marquette boys’ winning streak at the Division 1 Upper Peninsula track and field finals. The Redmen had a four-year run as champions before the streak came to end Saturday as ...
IRON RIVER — West Iron County defended its home turf, sweeping the boys and girls MHSAA Division 2 U.P. Finals on Thursday. The Wykons' boys carded a team score of 319 at George Young Resort, located 10 miles east of Iron River. Norway (366) took second place, followed by Hancock (362), St. ...
GLADSTONE — North Central freshman Bryson Mercier made his first trip to the Upper Peninsula Division 3 Golf Finals a successful one here Thursday as he earned medalist honors with 74 strokes. “I played real good today,” he said. “I had been struggling the past week, but made it ...
ESCANABA — Four Marquette Senior High School players earned baseball all-league honors when Great Northern Conference coaches voted earlier this week. The Redmen honored were senior Brendan Kaski at pitcher, junior Jakob Peterson at first base, sophomore Peter VandenAvond in the infield and ...