REPUBLIC — The Republic-Michigamme girls basketball season came to an end Wednesday night as the Hawks fell to Wakefield-Marenisco, 62-35. Tailyn Raisanen led R-M with 19 points. Although the season didn’t go the way that she’d hoped, Hawks head coach April Radcliffe thought her squad ...
IRON RIVER — West Iron County will get another up-close look at Norway’s pressure defense in Friday’s Class C girls district basketball championship. In Wednesday’s semifinals at Charles Greenlund Gymnasium, three players accounted for 40 points as Norway stopped Westwood 43-33, while ...
The Marquette Senior High School figure skating B team won its district tournament, narrowly defeating Houghton. The MSHS C team was runner-up, barely losing to Houghton. The Marquette B team was first in jumps and moves and second in spins, while the C team was second in jumps and third in ...
MUNISING — The undefeated Munising Mustangs carted off several special awards and a number of all-league selections, while Superior Central picked up a first-team selection in Skyline Central Conference girls basketball awards announced this week. Senior Frankie Mattson was the big winner, ...
MARQUETTE — Marquette edged out Escanaba in a dicey third period of the first round of the MHSAA Division 2 hockey regional tournament, earning a 4-2 win at their home Lakeview Arena on Tuesday night. Redmen head coach Doug Garrow said his team had luck on its side, getting two goals in the ...
NEGAUNEE — Kingsford rallied from a four-goal deficit in the second period and defeated Negaunee 7-6 in overtime in an MHSAA Divison 2 hockey regional game on Tuesday. The Flivvers (12-12-1) trailed by three goals early in the third period and answered with a Daunte Fortner goal and two ...
GARDEN CORNERS — Building a little momentum can go a long ways in helping a struggling team as it enters the postseason. Big Bay de Noc did just that Tuesday night by defeating Superior Central 64-54 in its regular season boys basketball finale. Both teams play Monday at the Cougars’ gym, ...
GWINN — Marquette’s offense caught fire early as the Redmen ran off with an 87-51 victory at Gwinn in a high school boys basketball game played Tuesday. “The toughest thing with Marquette is that they run 11 or 12 guys out against you without any real falloff,” Modeltowners first-year ...
NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee Miners boys basketball team claimed at least a share of the Mid-Peninsula Conference title with a 73-68 win over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers on Tuesday. Negaunee had to work hard for its piece of the league title, winning at Norway and beating the Mountaineers at ...
ST. NICHOLAS — It came down to the last seconds but the Big Bay de Noc girls basketball team squeaked by with a victory over Superior Central 38-36 during a Class D district tournament semifinal game on Monday. The Black Bears held a 30-28 lead heading into the fourth quarter and built a ...
In Tuesday’s Journal Sports on Page 1B in the story on the Marquette Senior High School boys ski team winning its fifth consecutive state championship, the skier pictured was actually Marquette’s Brad Seaborg.
HARBOR SPRINGS — Bradley Seaborg doesn’t think this is the end of the road for Marquette’s skiing state championships. The Redmen are graduating four seniors from a team that won Monday’s MHSAA Division 1 state title for the fifth straight year, scoring fewer than half the points of ...
LAKE LINDEN — For one quarter, the Baraga Vikings played the type of basketball that could carry them to East Lansing. Yes, the No. 7 Class D team in the state in the final AP poll — and the top-ranked Class D team in the latest UPSSA poll — was that good early on against Lake ...
HARBOR SPRINGS — Two down. How many more to go? Marquette went back-to-back with MHSAA Division 1 state girls skiing titles Monday at Nubs Nob in Harbor Springs, and the Redettes’ young roster could add to that total in the near future. “We won’t be losing anybody, so I really ...
GAYLORD — The northernmost Class A girls basketball district tournament in the state now runs through Marquette. The Redettes earned their shot at hosting the rest of the tourney after defeating district host Gaylord 52-31 in the northern Lower Peninsula community on Monday night. Because ...
NORWAY — Free-throw shooting padded a late lead as Negaunee defeated Norway 68-54 on Monday to keep the Miners’ hopes alive for at least sharing a piece of the Mid-Peninsula Conference boys basketball title. The Miners (15-4) benefited from making 15 of 18 free throws in the fourth ...
UPSSA Basketball Polls (1st-place votes listed in parentheses) BOYS Class ABC W-L Pts Pvs 1. Marquette (6) 17-1 34 1 2. Iron Mountain (1) 16-2 27 2 3. Norway 17-1 23 3 4. Negaunee 14-4 14 4 5. Gladstone 13-5 4 5 Others receiving ...
HANCOCK — Maija Sebbas wasn’t about to let her team lose in an opening-round Class C district tournament game on Monday night. The Hancock High senior standout poured in a career-high 31 points to lead the Bulldogs to a 54-43 win over L’Anse. “No, that would have been a bad way to ...
MARQUETTE — Cross your fingers that the weather cooperates as we enter March, since this week and next week are possibly the two busiest high school sports weeks of the whole school year. This week features girls basketball district tournaments and hockey regional events along with the ...
The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the week of Feb. 17-22