MARQUETTE — With MHSAA district tournaments opening on Monday evening, Marquette won’t have to worry about seeing Calumet again. They might say good riddance to the Copper Kings as Calumet handed the Redettes their only two losses of the regular season. Playing at the Barb Crill ...
"I should discontinue that thought process because they seem to surprise me each time." — Eric Mason, Marquette head football coach, on being worried when his team arrived in Calumet last week to 4 inches of snow on the field ----------------- MARQUETTE — For the second straight year, ...
NEGAUNEE — The last few days have been tough on the Negaunee football team. Last week, all Negaunee athletic events were announced to be canceled through today, which included the cross country teams not being allowed to compete in the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 Finals last Saturday. ...
MARQUETTE — In a strange year for all sports, high school football has been no exception. Three area schools are in the MHSAA football playoffs despite not having winning records after the high school sports organization doubled the size of the field this year due to a shortening of the ...
MUNISING — It’s been quite a turnaround this fall for the Munising High School football team as the Mustangs have gone from a winless 2019 campaign to a 4-2 record and MHSAA playoff spot in their first year as a eight-player program. The only downside is that Munising closed out its ...
GWINN — It’s been an up-and-down season for the Gwinn High School football team, one filled with successes and disappointments. On the latter side, the Modeltowners’ last true game was a heartbreaking overtime loss in their only home contest, but on the positive side, Gwinn finished the ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette defeated Escanaba on Tuesday night in a high school volleyball match to complete a sweep in a week’s time of their Great Northern Conference rivals. Playing at the Barb Crill Gymnasium in Marquette, the Redettes downed the Eskymos in four sets on Tuesday after ...
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MUNISING — Eight-player football games tend to be high-scoring shootouts, but Friday night’s contest between Munising and Lake Linden-Hubbell was a defensive struggle with the Lakes coming out on top 6-2. In another game scheduled for Friday, Gwinn won by forfeit over the Gogebic ...
MARQUETTE — Repeating as Upper Peninsula champions isn’t easy and the Marquette girls cross country team found that out Saturday morning at Presque Isle Park. The Redettes came close, though, agonizingly close, but were edged out by two points, 56 to 58, by Houghton as the Gremlins ...
MARQUETTE — The only surprise about Ishpeming winning the boys title Saturday morning in Iron River is that the Hematites were even there. Ishpeming got the OK to return to playing sports in time for its cross country teams to appear at the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 2 finals held at ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Marquette finished at the top of the final 11-player weekly high school football poll that was released Tuesday by the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. They received all five first-place votes. MSHS (5-1) had the maximum ...
MARQUETTE — Several local players took top honors on the 2020 West-Pac Football Copper Division All Conference team. Westwood’s Garrett Mann, a 6-0, 195 pound senior, was named Co-Defensive Player of the Year along with Calumet’s Chet Hyrkas, a 6-1, 180 pound senior. Negaunee’s Nash ...
CALUMET — A snow-covered Agassiz Field led to a slick football game on Friday between the Calumet Copper Kings and Marquette Redmen. But the Redmen found their footing and put together a 28-6 victory on the final night of the regular season in this shortened football campaign. On their ...
MARQUETTE — Seven of the area’s nine playing high school football teams will be in action this weekend for the first round of the expanded MHSAA playoffs. That was good news for one of the idle teams and bad news for the other. It’s good news for Westwood, which received a first-round ...
MARQUETTE — The weather was far from pleasant Saturday morning at Presque Isle Park with a bitterly cold wind whipping off of Lake Superior before the race, but that didn’t seem to bother the Marquette boys cross country team. For the second straight year, the Redmen stood atop Division 1 ...
EAST LANSING (AP) — Michigan high school winter sports will start on time in November. Face coverings are required for athletes practicing and competing in basketball, competitive cheer, hockey and wrestling, the Michigan High School Athletic Association said Friday after its Representative ...
MARQUETTE — Ferris State University senior Katie Etelamaki has earned one of the most prestigious honors of her collegiate career when she was chosen as an Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America. The 2016 graduate of Westwood High School was chosen to ...
ESCANABA — It’s one thing to win a five-set high school volleyball match, but yet another to come back from a two-set deficit as the Marquette Redettes defeated Escanaba in a Great Northern Conference match Thursday at the Eskymos’ gym. Marquette prevailed 21-25, 24-26, 25-7, 25-19, ...
"We’re lucky to have her. She really raises the level of play on our team." — Ann Crandell-Williams, Marquette volleyball coach, on junior outside hitter Seiler Hruska ----------------- GLADSTONE — Marquette started fast and never let up on the gas against a shorthanded Gladstone ...