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. Calumet (4) 5-0 36 1 2. ...
GLADSTONE — Marquette swept Gladstone in three sets, 25-13, 25-10, 25-18, in a Great Northern Conference volleyball match played here Monday evening. The first set was tied five times before 20 total points were on the board. The Braves’ Mackenzie Parish tied it, for the last time that ...
RAPID RIVER — Manistique freshman Clara Gilroy ran the 3.1-mile course in 23 minutes, 17.82 seconds to finish third in the girls meet of the Rapid River Invitational high school cross country meet Saturday. Daisy Englund of Mid Peninsula won that race in 20:49.24 as the Wolverines also won ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette County’s five high school varsity volleyball-playing teams were joined by five more squads at the annual Redette Rumble tournament held at Marquette Senior High School on Saturday. The host Redettes, Gwinn, Ishpeming, Negaunee and Westwood were joined by Marquette’s ...
EAGLE RIVER, Wis. — Freshman Max Dawson and senior Trevor Salmon scored for Marquette as the Redmen boys soccer team won at Northland Pines 2-1 on Saturday. The hosts opened the scoring on an unlucky bounce as Marquette’s clearing attempt bounced off the referee to NP’s Trevor Romatoski, ...
HOUGHTON — Houghton survived a second-half shootout to beat Gwinn 28-24 in a West PAC high school football matchup on Friday night. The Gremlins (1-4) and Modeltowners (0-5) combined for 32 points in the third quarter. The lead changed hands four times in the second half before a 55-yard ...
PETOSKEY — Petoskey kept its offense close to the ground while rainy weather seemed to stymie Marquette’s aerial attack as the Northmen won 19-14 in a high school football game played Friday night in Petoskey. The Redmen fell to 2-3 this season while Petoskey is now 1-4. “They were ...
By RYAN STIEG Journal Sports Writer NEGAUNEE — Not many high school quarterbacks could take a massive hit before halftime, then manage to play better in the second half. But Negaunee’s Jason Waterman accomplished that Friday night against Ishpeming. With the Miners holding a slim ...
By RYAN SPITZA Journal Sports Writer ISHPEMING — It was an explosive Homecoming for the Westwood football team. The Patriots had four players find the end zone while racking up 514 yards of total offense, topping Manistique 52-19 on Friday night. Of those yards, 332 came on the ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Senior captain Trevor Salmon recorded his second three-goal hat trick this month as the Marquette Senior High School boys soccer team held off a second-half charge to defeat Kingsford 4-2 on Thursday evening at the Kaufman Sports Complex in ...
"It was mostly a mental game today. I think I need to get a little more training in." — Emily Paupore, Negaunee girls cross country runner, after setting the course record at Al Quaal ------------------ ISHPEMING — The Houghton girls brought home plenty of souvenirs from the Tracy ...
GWINN — Gwinn had to work hard but it paid off with a three-set victory over Negaunee in a high school volleyball match held at the Modeltowners’ gym on Thursday evening. GHS prevailed 25-21, 29-27, 25-23 in this dual-league matchup to improve to 10-5-2 overall, 4-0 in the West PAC and ...
ISHPEMING — You probably could’ve predicted who was going to be in Thursday’s Mid-Peninsula Conference tennis finals. Gwinn, Iron Mountain and Ishpeming challenged, but Westwood and Negaunee achieved conference supremacy again, with the Patriots and Miners turning the finals matches ...
KINGSFORD — Marquette swept through the Great Northern Conference high school girls tennis meet like the strong wind did at times on Wednesday at the Kingsford High School tennis facility. The Redettes won the team titles by a wide margin of 10 points, scoring 24. “As a team, I thought ...
NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee girls tennis team cruised to two wins Tuesday, sweeping Ishpeming and Gwinn both by perfect 8-0 scores. The Miners decided to move some players around in both meets and judging by the scores, they all performed well. In the Ishpeming meet, Negaunee didn’t drop ...
MARQUETTE — Freshman Max Dawson keyed Marquette’s fast start as the Redmen blanked Iron Mountain 6-0 at home on Tuesday evening. Dawson scored both of the Redmen’s first-half goals and sophomore goalkeeper Harrison Anthos made it stand up by stopping all three shots on net he faced, ...
MUNISING — Gladstone sophomore Giovanni Mathews made Tuesday a special day as he captured his first varsity cross country title in the Munising Invitational. Mathews covered the 3.1-mile course at Pictured Rocks Golf & Country Club in 17 minutes, 25.15 seconds. He was followed by ...
ISHPEMING — The Gwinn volleyball team earned a nice win Tuesday night, sweeping Westwood 3-0 on the road. The Modeltowners took the match (25-15, 25-18, 25-16) with the help of some strong offensive play from Emily Curtice, Halle Beauchamp and Tianna Taylor. The threesome combined for 19 ...
MANISTIQUE — The Manistique High School volleyball team made quick work of Ishpeming on Tuesday night, crusing to a three set victory, 25-12, 25-8, 25-15. “I think we served really aggressively. We had 21 aces overall, which I think is pretty aggressive as far as serving goes,” ...
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. Calumet (4) 4-0 36 2 2. ...