NEGAUNEE — One of the players listed in Wednesday’s Mining Journal sports story as unable to attend this week’s reunion of the 1957 Negaunee High School boys basketball state championship team actually died 25 years ago. Organizer Roland “Foo” Koski discovered the status of Richard ...
POWERS — North Central is riding the longest boys’ basketball winning streak in the state — make that the nation. The Jets pounded Menominee 64-42 Tuesday night for their 69th straight victory. And a recent story in USA Today reports this likely is the longest current streak in the ...
NEGAUNEE — Three swimmers each won a pair of individual events as the Ishpeming-Negaunee boys and Manistique girls repeated as winners at this year’s Polar Bear Plunge at Negaunee High School on Tuesday. The I-N boys won their fifth straight title by scoring 95 points, well ahead of ...
NEGAUNEE — Negaunee High School and the surrounding Negaunee community are honoring the 60th anniversary of the Miners’ 1957 Class B boys state basketball championship with several events on Friday. That includes a luncheon to be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Immanuel ...
GWINN — Gwinn narrowed its deficit to just one possession with 17 seconds left before Norway added several late free throws as the undefeated Knights posted a 50-44 high school boys basketball victory on Tuesday night. The Upper Peninsula’s No. 1 Class ABC team escaped from Gwinn to ...
MARQUETTE — If there’s better than perfect, you’ll have to show it to Brad Seaborg and the Marquette Senior High School boys downhill ski team. Led by double victories from Seaborg, the Redmen swept the top four scoring places in both slalom and giant slalom races for a perfect score of ...
MANISTIQUE — The Gwinn girls won for the third time in four games after traveling to Manistique and picking up a 60-50 win in a high school basketball game played Tuesday night. Junior Brenna Bruce led the Modeltowners’ 19-7 second quarter by scoring 13 of her game-high 22 points that ...
HOUGHTON — Following a few missed defensive assignments to start the second half, Houghton head coach Julie Filpus called timeout and got into her team. That was the tipping point. For 18 minutes and 9 seconds — or 2:09 into the third quarter — the Upper Peninsula’s No. 1 Class ...
UPSSA Basketball Polls (1st-place votes listed in parentheses) BOYS Class ABC W-L Pts Pvs 1. Norway (6) 13-0 34 1 2. Marquette (1) 12-1 28 2 3. Iron Mountain 12-2 16 3 4. Gladstone 10-2 13 4 5. Sault Ste. Marie 12-1 8 5 Others receiving ...
MUNISING — Junior Cade Contreras hit a pair of clutch shots, including one at the buzzer, to lift the Munising High School boys basketball team to a 58-57 win over Big Bay de Noc on Monday night. First, Contreras hit a 3-pointer with about 25 to 30 seconds left to pull the Mustangs within ...
EBEN — The Superior Central girls survived a flurry of free throws by Kennedy Englund in the final 40 seconds to take a 39-37 victory over Mid Peninsula in high school basketball action on Monday night. Leading 38-31 with the clock reading less a minute left, Englund was fouled and a ...
NORWAY — It took a while, but Norway’s offense finally did what it needed to sink Negaunee 41-36 in a Mid-Peninsula Conference girls basketball showdown on Friday. The win cushions Norway’s lead in the conference, the Knights’ last year in the M-PC before moving to the Skyline Central ...
By RAY BRESSETTE Journal Sports Writer ISHPEMING — Westwood captured their first Mid-Peninsula Conference tournament championship in 13 years Saturday afternoon in Ishpeming. Westwood head coach Dan Carlson said was proud of his teams confidence throughout the match. “We came in ...
By RAY BRESSETTE Journal Sports Writer ISHPEMING — The Ishpeming High School boys basketball team made a statement on their home court Friday when the high-flying Iron Mountain Mountaineers came to town. And the Hematites fulfilled their role with a 65-47 upset of the Upper ...
ISHPEMING — Amber Huebner is continuing to show the Upper Peninsula basketball fans, coaches and players why she’s one of the best guards in the Great Northern Conference. Huebner’s 14 points helped Marquette to take a 55-26 nonconference win at Westwood on Thursday night. Smith ...
PERKINS — Defense and a big second half propelled the Munising girls basketball team to a dominant win Thursday night against Mid Peninsula. The Mustangs cruised to a 64-24 victory, forcing 33 Mid Pen turnovers in this Skyline Central Conference matchup. “You play a team like Munising ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Iron Mountain snapped out of a three-minute scoring drought at game’s start to down Manistique 51-45 in a Mid-Peninsula Conference girls basketball game on Thursday. Riley Poupore’s game-high 20 points led the Mountaineers (4-9, 2-5), who closed the final two minutes of ...
COOKS — The Superior Central girls put the clamps down on defense, overcoming a challenging offensive night to post a 36-27 high school basketball victory at Big Bay de Noc on Thursday night. “Our defense played much better than we did Monday against North Dickinson (a 59-55 loss),” SC ...
GWINN — Negaunee broke open a competitive game in the second quarter before cruising to a 74-31 high school boys basketball victory at Gwinn on Thursday night. The Miners, who suffered three straight losses to the top three Upper Peninsula Class ABC teams in January, have rebuilt a ...
By STEPHEN OMAN Marinette, Wis., EagleHerald MENOMINEE — Marquette shot lights-out and defeated Menominee 53-28 in a high school boys’ basketball game played Friday night. The Redmen made 11 of 23 on their 3-point attempts with six players making at least one. “Right around 50 ...