EAST LANSING — Jason Whitens earned a state championship ring for his thumb at Michigan State University on Saturday morning, but surprisingly has not landed a college scholarship in basketball or football. The North Central High School standout who claimed his share of a third straight ...
EAST LANSING — A state basketball three-peat. A current win streak that is the nation’s longest at 83 straight. That is what the North Central Jets accomplished at Michigan State University on Saturday morning by defeating unbeaten Buckley 78-69 for the Class D boys basketball state ...
By MICHAEL EPPS The Detroit News via AP EAST LANSING — You blinked, and Saturday's Class D state championship was already over. Powers North Central scored a record-breaking 38 points in the first quarter, the most points scored in any quarter of a MHSAA Finals game. Powers ...
EAST LANSING — Not until a video replay confirmed it did the North Central Jets extend their national-best winning streak to 82 games on Thursday at Michigan State’s Breslin Center. The replay was used to make sure that the Jets’ Seth Polfus had made the game-winning basket before the ...
REPUBLIC — Baraga High School senior Carsyn Osterman was named the Most Valuable Player in girls basketball for the Copper Mountain Conference recently. Osterman led the Vikings to the top record in the 11-team league of 14-1, including 9-1 in the Copper Country Division. The MVP award in ...
KINROSS — Grand Marais and Munising Baptist were each represented with two players when Northern Lights League boys basketball honors were named recently. Seniors Landon Stachnik of Grand Marais and Hunter MacArthur of Munising Baptist were named to the league’s Second Team, while Polar ...
"I didn’t even have running on my radar for college until my senior season." — KAMERON BURMEISTER, junior, NMU track and field and cross country teams ----------------------- MARQUETTE — Upper Peninsula native Kameron Burmeister is continuing to prove why she is one of the best ...
MARQUETTE — It may still be three months until the 10th annual Upper Peninsula Football All-Star Game is played in late June, but on Saturday, coaches had the opportunity to pick players to be on their teams. Instead of the teams being divided in their traditional way by geography, either ...
ESCANABA — North Central has made it back to the “Final Four” in the MHSAA Class D boys basketball state tournament. The unbeaten, top-ranked Jets were favored in all 26 of their previous games this season. But Game 27, according to North Central coach Adam Mercier, has the Jets shooting ...
"This team never quit, and we just kept coming back and coming back." — Dan Waterman, head coach, Negaunee Miners ---------------------- By JAMES GENSTERBLUM Special to the Journal PETOSKEY — “They just made one more great play than we did.” There’s no better description ...
EAST LANSING (AP) — Malik “Mighty Mouse” Ellison received a FaceTime call on the night of Feb. 28. The 5-foot-8, 155-pound Beecher point guard was fresh off an emotional high of dropping a Flint-area record 63 points and 11 assists, in a thrilling 108-104 triple-overtime loss to New ...
SAULT STE. MARIE — There’s no place like The Breslin Center for Jason Whitens and Marcus Krachinski. Whitens, Krachinski and the top-ranked North Central boys’ basketball team are headed to “The Big House” again after beating third-ranked Hillman 74-61 in Tuesday’s Class D state ...
"They’re an offensive machine, so we’ll have our hands full." — Dan Waterman, Negaunee coach, on tonight’s opponent Manton ------------------- NEGAUNEE — Negaunee High School will tip off in the Class C boys basketball state quarterfinals tonight for the first time in three years, ...
MANISTIQUE — With numbers remaining low in Manistique’s football program, coach Dennis Beaman decided it was time to move on. Beaman, who stepped down from the head coaching position at Manistique on Feb. 28, will become an assistant special teams coordinator at Northern Michigan ...
DETROIT (AP) — Isaiah Livers of Kalamazoo Central has been named Mr. Basketball for the state of Michigan. Livers, who has signed to play at Michigan for the Wolverines next season, edged Xavier Tillman of Grand Rapids Christian in voting by members of the Basketball Coaches Association of ...
MARQUETTE — A pair of Marquette Senior High School hockey players received Division 2 Second Team all-state recognition recently. Joey Phillips made the forwards category while Tyler Bergwall was named among goalies. The list is compiled by the Michigan High School Hockey Coaches ...
Members of the Marquette Senior High School boys and girls ski teams embrace their MHSAA Division 1 state championship trophies in front of the student cheering section during a ceremony held at halftime of the Redmen’s Class A district tournament basketball game on March 8. (Journal photos ...
NEWBERRY — The Newberry boys and girls basketball teams each landed a First Team honoree in postseason awards recently named by the Eastern Upper Peninsula Conference. But it was senior Indians’ girl Taylor Bryant who earned the top honor as Player of the Year. Bryant, who earlier in ...
WARREN (AP) — Warren Cousino’s Kierra Fletcher has been named The Associated Press Class A girls Player of the Year in Michigan. The 5-foot-9 combo guard, averaged 22 points, 12 rebounds, six assists and five steals to help Cousino make a return trip to the Final Four this weekend. The ...
"It’s just kind of a gut thing and you got to have trust in your kids sometimes." — Dan Waterman, Negaunee coach, after both teams’ stars got into early foul trouble -------------------- ESCANABA — Negaunee overcame a 10-point first-half deficit to win the Class C regional ...