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 ...
"My teammates were there and that really helped to have their support." — Matt Paavo, Westwood No. 4 singles player, on the U.P. Division 2 finals coming down to his championship match ----------------------- ISHPEMING — Tennis may not be the first sport that comes to mind when people ...
HARRIS — Paxton Johnson only achieved half of her goal in her final high school golf match here Wednesday, but it was a special half. The Escanaba High School senior won her fourth straight MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 golf championship to join two other four-time winners. On a ...
KINGSFORD — The dynasty continues. Negaunee won six of the eight championship flights to capture its fourth consecutive MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 Finals title in boys tennis on Wednesday. Negaunee head coach Kyle Saari said a team-first approach has kept the Miners, winners of ...
L’ANSE — Ishpeming erupted for 11 runs in the fourth inning of the nightcap to pull out a high school softball doubleheader split on Tuesday. L’Anse won the opener 8-1 before the Hematites came back for a 21-9 victory in Game 2. Ishpeming trailed 9-4 entering the fourth in the ...
ESCANABA — Gladstone senior Rudy Peterson sizzled on the front nine here Wednesday, retaining his MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 boys golf title with an even-par 71. Peterson fired a 2-under-par 34 on the front nine, then overcame bogeys on Nos. 15 and 16 to shoot 37 on the back nine at ...
"It’s something that, odds are as things go along, we’re going to need both of them." — Randy Carlson, Negaunee softball head coach, on Miners’ pitchers Abby Nelson and Skylar Hall in the MHSAA tournament -------------------- NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee High School softball team had ...
KINGSFORD — A second-half goal stemming from a penalty kick was enough for Iron Mountain to hold off Marquette 2-1 on Tuesday evening. The Mountaineers (5-3) got the winning goal from Reagan Lundholm, who scored on a rebound from her own penalty kick in the second half. “She had the ...
NATIONAL MINE — Westwood ended its softball regular season on a high note after a doubleheader sweep of visiting Houghton on Tuesday. The Patriots won the afternoon game 14-0 in five innings before an 11-1 six-inning decision in the nightcap. Westwood ends the regular season with a 19-4 ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette Senior High School earned a baseball doubleheader sweep of Menominee at home on Haley Memorial Field on Tuesday night. The Redmen took the lead in the third inning and added two insurance runs in the fourth to take the opener 4-1 before racing out to a 9-3 victory in ...
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