MUNISING — After missing out last season, the Munising football team is back in the MHSAA Division 8 playoffs. But the Mustangs will not have an easy journey ahead of them as they will have to spend it all on the road if they want to make a trip to Ford Field like they did in 2014. All ...
MUNISING — Eight players from Munising and a dozen from co-champion Newberry earned All-Mid-Eastern Football Conference honors, the league announced this week. It was a Newberry player that earned one of the league’s top awards as senior George Sevarns (6-foot-1, 180 pounds) was named ...
"We’re still young with juniors and sophomores, but it’s one of the better groups I’ve been around as a coach." — Scott Syrjala, head coach, Westwood Patriots football -------------- ISHPEMING — The Westwood football team has pulled off one big accomplishment already this ...
NEWBERRY — On Sunday night, the Newberry football team gathered together to celebrate earning an MHSAA Division 8 first-round playoff game at home. However, the Indians — and a large chunk of sports journalists — were surprised to learn that the MHSAA decided to send them out on the ...
NORWAY — Munising continued its bid for the Skyline Central Conference volleyball title on Wednesday with a three-set sweep of Norway. The once-beaten Mustangs (22-5-4, 9-1 Skyline) need to win at Superior Central tonight to share the league championship with Carney-Nadeau. The two Alger ...
GWINN — Gwinn split a pair of volleyball matches on Tuesday and Wednesday nights but the win on the first night was good enough to clinch the Mid-Peninsula Conference regular season championship for the Modeltowners. Gwinn 3, Ishpeming 0 At Ishpeming on Tuesday, the Modeltowners ...
NEGAUNEE — Named Mid-Peninsula Conference Player of the Year a day earlier, Ally Jacobson followed that up by recording 10 kills and three blocks to lead Negaunee to a three-set sweep of Gladstone in a high school volleyball match at the Lakeview Memorial Gymnasium on Tuesday night. The ...
ESCANABA — The Escanaba and Marquette volleyball teams had the same objective Tuesday night — play solidly and build some momentum for next week’s MHSAA district tournaments. The Eskymos relied on an aggressive attack and defeated the visiting Redettes in four sets, 25-22, 8-25, 27-25, ...
KINGSFORD — With junior Ethan Martysz a double honoree, eight Marquette Senior High School players were Great Northern Conference football honors as voted on by league coaches recently. Martysz, at 6-feet and 175 pounds, was named to the All-GNC team on offense as an end and on defense as a ...
MARQUETTE — Playoff times have been officially set for three area high school football teams involved in the first round of the MHSAA playoffs. Newberry (6-2) plays at Frankfort (6-2) at 7 p.m. Friday. Saturday’s schedule has Westwood (8-1) at Elk Rapids (7-2) at 1 p.m., while Munising ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — Iron Mountain closed a large deficit in the fourth and final set to defeat Westwood in a Mid-Peninsula Conference volleyball match on Tuesday night. The Mountaineers won 25-18, 25-16, 26-24, 26-24. IM was down 23-15 in the final set when junior Hanna Ellis began a serving ...
CALUMET — A half-dozen players from L’Anse earned honors from the West PAC in football as chosen by coaches recently. Senior Foster Miller (5-foot-10, 180 pounds) was named First Team Offense as a running back. On First Team Defense, senior Kooper Jahfetson (6-foot, 195) was named as an ...
MANISTIQUE — It took a little while for Manistique to find its groove Monday night as the Emeralds rallied past St. Ignace at home in four sets, 21-25, 25-17, 27-25, 25-17, in a nonconference volleyball match. “I think we got off to a slow start passing,” Emeralds’ coach Amy Nixon ...
MARQUETTE — Westwood junior lineman Sam Gilles, Negaunee sophomore Drew DuShane and Gwinn junior Logan Kruhlik were named First Team players of the year when Mid-Peninsula Conference football honors were announced on Monday. Gilles, 5-foot-10 and 210 pounds, was a unanimous choice as First ...
MARQUETTE — Senior Ally Jacobson of Negaunee was named the Player of the Year in volleyball on Monday for the Mid-Peninsula Conference as chosen by the coaches. Gwinn placed two players on the all-league First Team — senior Brenna Bruce and junior Brooke Mannor — with the balance ...
Upper Peninsula playoff schedule -------------- 11-player district and 8-player regional first-round matchups. Game times will be determined later today. Teams listed with records and playoff points: --------------- 11 PLAYER Division 4 Region 1, District 1 — Bay City John Glenn ...
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EBEN — Superior Central football coach Sam Eggleston was all smiles after the Cougars’ shocking 46-22 nonconference high school football victory on Saturday afternoon against Rapid River. The Cougars (4-5) played loose, made big plays and treated a homecoming crowd to its best game ...
By JOHN VRANCIC Special to the Journal MUNISING — Junior Spencer Giroux turned in a dominating performance, but it wasn’t enough for the Ishpeming boys to retain their Upper Peninsula Division 2 cross country title Saturday. Gogebic placed five in the top seven and won for the first ...
By JOHN VRANCIC Special to the Journal MUNISING — After settling for runner-up honors a year ago, the Marquette girls decided they were ready to regain their MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 cross country title on Saturday. The Redettes scored 47 points on this sunny, breezy and warm ...