ISHPEMING — Basketball fans can see double the varsity fun next Friday night at Westwood High School. The school has rescheduled its Wednesday boys game against Negaunee that was postponed due to rampant flu for the same night as the Miners-Patriots girls game. That will give Westwood a ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — In a race for regional qualifiers, Westwood won the battle among eight area teams at several high school individual wrestling district tournaments on Saturday. But the Patriots had to share district champion honors with Munising. In all, eight schools ...
By Journal Sports Staff ISHPEMING — Practicing what their coach preaches, Westwood dug itself out of an early hole to defeat Manistique for the second time in a week in boys basketball action on Friday. The Patriots fell behind 11-5 after one quarter and still trailed 22-21 at halftime ...
NEGAUNEE — On a night where Negaunee honored its 1957 state championship team, the Miners kept the winning spirit alive with a 71-57 Mid-Peninsula Conference victory over Ishpeming on Friday night. Negaunee head coach Dan Waterman said he was expecting a close match with their neighbors ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette recorded a sweep of Ishpeming-Negaunee in a high school swim meet held at the MSHS pool on Feb. 2. Three Marquette swimmers were double winners in individual events as the Redmen and Redettes each won all three relays in their respective meets. For the girls, who won ...
Up next: For Divison 4 wrestlers, individual district tournament to be held at Munising High School on Saturday -------------------------------- ISHPEMING — The Munising Mustangs have built up a talented wrestling program the past few years and that was on display Wednesday in the MHSAA ...
ESCANABA — It was fun while it lasted, but Escanaba’s 10-year reign as district wrestling champion ended abruptly Wednesday night in a 63-15 loss to the Marquette Redmen in an MHSAA Division 2 team district tournament championship match. Marquette recorded seven pins while earning its ...
MANISTIQUE — Improvement wasn’t enough to get the Manistique boys over the hump Wednesday night as they dropped a 62-53 basketball game to Ishpeming. Manistique led 27-25 at halftime and only trailed 41-40 after the third quarter of the Mid-Peninsula Conference matchup. “I thought we ...
MUNISING — The Munising girls basketball team has been on a roll all season and didn’t slow down with a makeup game on Wednesday. After being snowed out Tuesday, the Mustangs remained undefeated after taking down Forest Park 53-40 a day later. Frankie Mattson led Munising with 15 ...
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 ...