It was a banner afternoon for Graham Johnson Saturday afternoon as the Escanaba High School hockey captain led his team to a mercy-shortened victory over a downstate opponent. Johnson scored the 100th goal of his Eskymo career, as he personally dominated the Saginaw Heritage Hawks, 8-0, at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos taken by Lizzie Taylor.
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team won all three games in sunny Puerto Rico this weekend, using its entire roster, and improving to a best-in-school-history 11-1 season record. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information.
The Michigan Tech University Huskies men's basketball team won both of its games this weekend at the Florida Tech Christmas Classic, preserving its Number Nine national ranking heading into the holiday break. Tech is now 11-1 on the season to go along with that national Top Ten ranking. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MTU Athletics. Photos courtesy of Florida Southern University.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team used a huge second quarter to open up a 20-point halftime lead, and the Braves never looked back, beating the Escanaba Eskymos, 67-48, in a rivalry battle at the Escanaba High School Gym. It was a dream-come-true night for Braves junior Lonnie Davey, as he drained ten triples and scored a career-high 36 points. Click the above headline for details. (GHS file photo)
The Escanaba Eskymos hockey team jumped to a quick 2-0 lead Thursday night, but the Marquette Sentinels rallied for a 5-2 victory at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline for details, listen to interviews, and to see photos and videos taken by Lizzie Taylor.
Jacy Weisbrod buried four of her eight triples in the first five minutes on her way to a career-high 33 points, helping guide the No. 14 Wildcats to an 83-77 victory over Northwood on Wednesday night. Click the above headline for details, videos, interviews. (NMU Photo)
Michigan High School Athletic Association’s seventh Multi-Sport Participation Survey, conducted last spring for the 2024-25 school year, showed small but continuing growth of multi-sport participation among athletes at member high schools. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team settled for a split at their weekend tournament, beating Glen Oaks Community College, 94-75, before losing to 16th-ranked Milwaukee Area Technical & Community College, 91-78. The result left the young Norse team with an 8-2 record, heading into next Saturday's game in Minnesota against Dakota County. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The Northern Michigan men's basketball team outscored the Marian Sabres 61-21 in the second half to pull away with a commanding 109-52 victory on Sunday afternoon. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information, and listen to RRN's Casey Ford interview Coach Matt Majkrzak. (NMU photo)
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team cruised to a pair of home wins over the weekend, beating the Glen Oaks Community College Vikings, 84-45, Friday night, then topping the Milwaukee Area Technical College Stormers, 87-53. The result moved Bay's record to 8-2 overall, with one more game to play in 2025. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team won both of its home games this weekend, stretching its winning streak to four games heading toward the end of the 2025 portion of the schedule. The Eskymos beat the Houghton Gremlins, 6-2, Saturday night, after shutting down the Negaunee Miners, 7-0, on Friday. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights. (Lizzie Taylor photo)
The Northern Michigan University hockey team lost a pair of hard-fought games this weekend, falling to St. Thomas, 2-0, Friday night (with an empty-netter), and then coughed up a late 3-1 lead Saturday night to lose a heartbreaker, 4-3. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information. (NMU Photo)
The Michigan Tech University hockey team swept a weekend series from the Ferris State for the second time this season. The Huskies beat the Bulldogs, 5-2, Saturday night, after rallying for a 3-2 victory on Friday. Click the above for details, courtesy of Michigan Tech Athletics. (MTU Photo)
The Northern Michigan men's basketball team outscored the Concordia Wisconsin Falcons 55-10 in the first half en route to an 87-35 victory on Thursday night at Vandament Arena. Click the above headline for details, and to hear post-game comments. (NMU Photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team raced to a big 6-2 lead after two periods, and then had to hang on for dear life down the stretch as the Hancock Bulldogs put on a furious rally before the Eskymos escaped with a 6-5 win Tuesday night at the Wells Sports Complex. Ben Sands had three goals and two assists to lead the Eskymos, while Brady Axford countered with a hat trick of his own for the Buldogs. Click the above headline for details, hear interviews, and see photos and videos taken by Lizzie Taylor.
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team won its home opener Monday night, turning back the Norway Knights, 50-36, in a defensive battle. It was the first varsity win for new head coach Jake Berlinksi, who became the third EHS head coach in three seasons for three seasons. Click the above headline to read details, to see photos and videos, and to hear post-game comments.
The Bay College Norse Men's Basketball Team extended their win streak to four games over the weekend as they held on for a 75-72 victory over Oakton Community College on Friday night and a 86-79 win over McHenry County College on Saturday afternoon. Saturday's win came after the Norse trailed by as many as a dozen points in the second half. Click the above headline for details, videos, interviews.
After scoring a career-high 30 points on Thursday night at Parkside, Cal Klesmit scored 17 of his game-high 20 points over a six-minute stretch in the second half to help the Northern Michigan Wildcats pull away from the Roosevelt Lakers for an 85-64 win Saturday afternoon in Chicago. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information, and to see RRN video highlights, plus post-game comments.
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team split a pair of games in the Chicago suburbs this weekend, losing a heartbreaking 68-67 decision to the Oakton College Owls Friday afternoon, and then bouncing back for a dominating 86-46 win over the McHenry College Scots on Saturday. Click the above headline for details, video highlights, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team picked up a huge win Friday night against a club that they haven't much over the years: the Calumet Copper Kings. The Eskymos rolled to a 6-1 win over the Copper Kings at the Wells Sports Complex, continuing its season-long string of win a game, lose a game, then win a game. Click the above headline to read details and to see photos taken by Lizzie Taylor.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team picked up its first victory of the season this weekend, beating the Bowling Green Falcons, 3-2, Friday, and then getting a standings point in a 4-3 overtime loss Saturday night. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information. (NMU Photo)
The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team coughed up a 16-point lead in the fourth quarter, but fought back to post a 83-82 win over Roosevelt University Saturday evening in suburban Chicago. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information. Also click to hear postgame comments from NMU Coach Casey Thousand and to see RRN video highlights.
Cal Klesmit exploded for a career-high 30 points to lead the Northern Michigan Wildcats to an 82-78 victory over the Parkside Rangers in the GLIAC opener on Thursday night in Kenosha, Wis. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information. (NMU Photo)
The Menominee High School football team on Sunday erased the pain of a heartbreaking 2023 state championship loss by crushing the Schoolcraft Eagles, 34-6, to win the 2025 MHSAA Division Seven state championship at Ford Field in Detroit. The Maroons scored touchdowns in all four quarters, with senior running back Clayton Miller getting three of them. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA photo)
The No. 12 nationally-ranked Michigan Tech men's basketball team saw 12 players score in the 92-56 win over Lakeland in the home-opener at the SDC Gymnasium on Saturday. Sophomore guard Ty Fernholz led his squad with 16 points, hitting four 3-pointers. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech University photo)
The Northern Michigan Wildcats turned in a complete team performance on both ends of the floor on Saturday afternoon in a 79-53 win over the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs. Click the above headline to for details, video highlights, and comments from Coach Matt Majkrzak. (NMU Photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team got a monster performance from co-captain Graham Johnson on Friday, and overwhelmed the Traverse City Central Trojans, 5-0, at the Centre Ice Arena in Traverse City. Johnson scored the team's first four goals, including one just eight seconds into the game and another with 14 seconds left in the first period to help the Eskymos improve to 3-2-0 on the season. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team played lockdown defense on the Upper Peninsula rival Gogebic Community College Samsons Tuesday night, holding the Samsons to just 47 points on 28.8% shooting, on the way to a 77-46 victory in Ironwood. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and interviews.
The Bay College women's basketball team completed a series sweep of its Upper Peninsula rivals, the Gogebic Community College Samsons, 92-71, Thursday night in Ironwood. The 22nd-nationally-ranked Norse trailed, 20-19, after the first quarter, but pulled away to an eight-point lead at halftime and gradually built on that in the second half. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team outlasted the North Region State College (N.D.) Royals Sunday evening in Minnesota, bouncing back from a disappointing home loss to Oakland Community College nine days earlier. Bay had four men score in double figures and posted a 79-69 win. The game was played in a neutral gym at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., a gym that claims to have hosted the first-ever college basketball game nearly a century ago. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
