Wildcat Women Take Defensive Battle Downstate
January 02, 2025The Northern Michigan women's basketball team rang in the new year with a victory at Davenport, edging the Panthers 47-40 in a defensive battle. Click the above headline for details.
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STREAK ENDS: Northern Ladies Lose First Game
December 21, 2024The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team lost for the first time this season on Friday, falling to Northwood, 68-50, in Midland. Click the above headline for details, video highlights, and comments from NMU Coach Casey Thousand.
Girls Basketball
GIRLS HAVING FUN: Record-High Turnout Seen
December 20, 2024A record number of spectators at girls postseason events pushed Michigan High School Athletic Association attendance during the 2023-24 school year past 1.4 million fans for the second straight year, with the total of 471,651 spectators for girls competitions breaking the previous all-time best set in 2014-15.
Girls Basketball
Bay Ladies Salvage Last Game On Illinois Road Trip
December 08, 2024The Bay College Norse women's basketball team salvaged the final game of its three-game road trip on Saturday with a 79-53 win over the McHenry College Scots in Illinois. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and to listen to interviews.
Girls Basketball
Bay Ladies Close Again; Fall To Unbeaten Oakton
December 07, 2024The Bay College Norse women's basketball team lost its second straight road game Friday evening, and it was another game that came down to the wire. Much like in Wednesday night's four-point loss, the Norse were in a position to pull out a win Friday against undefeated Oakton Community College, but ultimately fell, 78-75. Click the above headline for details.
Girls Basketball
SEVEN UP, SEVEN DOWN: Wildcats Stop Pride
December 06, 2024For the first time in 25 years, the Northern Michigan women's basketball team is 7-0, handling the Purdue Northwest Pride 70-48 to open up GLIAC play on Thursday in Marquette. Click the above headline for details, and to hear from NMU Coach Casey Thousand.
Girls Basketball
Bay College Ladies Drop Close Game In Wisconsin
December 05, 2024The Bay College Norse women's basketball team took a tough loss on the road Wednesday night, falling to the Bryant & Stratton Bobcats, 82-78, in Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos, and to listen to interviews.
Girls Basketball
1,000 AND COUNTING: Johnson Makes Milestone
December 04, 2024Lillie Johnson scored 25 points, crossing 1,000 for her Gladstone Braves career, as she helped her team post a 51-47 win over the defending state champion Ishpeming Hematites Tuesday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and post-game reaction.
Girls Basketball
CLAMPING DOWN: Bay Defense Controls Gogebic
November 27, 2024The Bay College Norse women's basketball team shook off a sluggish start to dominate Gogebic Community College, 88-51, Tuesday night in Ironwood. Menominee's Anna Axtell had another great game, scoring 27 points, and the Bay defense held GCC to just four points in the third quarter. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
Girls Basketball
Bay College Women Hold Off Lake Region Royals
November 23, 2024A big second quarter pushed the Bay College Norse Women's Basketball Team over the Lake Region State Royals of North Dakota on Saturday afternoon. The game, which was held at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, finished with a final score of 75-67. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
Girls Basketball
Bay Women Catch Fire Late; Overwhelm Samsons
November 21, 2024The Bay College women's basketball team pulled away from a close game in the second half to beat fellow Upper Peninsula rival Gogebic Community College, 86-55, Wednesday night in Escanaba. The Norse went on a 15-0 run to brek open a four-point game. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
Girls Basketball
Norse Fall Behind Again; Lose To Ellsworth In Iowa
November 11, 2024The Bay College Norse women's basketball team fell behind by double figures early and couldn't catch up Saturday night, losing to an Ellsworth Community College filled with international students, 79-64, in Iowa. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
Girls Basketball
Wildcat Women Grind Out Two Tight Wins In Dells
November 10, 2024The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team won their season openers this weekend in Wisconsin Dells, beating Lewis University, 53-48, and Thomas More University, 48-46. Click the above headline for details from both games. (NMU phto)
Girls Basketball
SLUGGISH START: Norse Ladies Fall To State Fair
November 09, 2024The Bay College women's basketball team had a rough time scoring points early, and a late comeback fell short on Friday with a 53-47 loss to the State Fair (Missouri) Community College Roadrunners at a tournament in Iowa. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Girls Basketball
Northern Retires First-Ever Women's Hoops Jersey
November 04, 2024Northern Michigan University retired the number 40 basketball jersey of Lisa Jamula-Maki during a ceremony on Sunday before an exhibition game against Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Vandament Arena. She scored 1,699 points between 1987 and 1991, a record that stood for three decades. Click the above headline for photos and interviws.
Girls Basketball
Norse Women's Basketball Drops Season Opener
November 02, 2024The Bay College Norse women's basketball team opened the season Friday night with a tough 60-57 loss to the Jackson College Jets at the Bay College Gym. It was a rematch of the game played last March in the regionals, when Jackson eliminated the Norse. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos from the game.
Girls Basketball
Norse Women's Basketball To Open Season Friday
October 31, 2024The Bay College Norse women's basketball team opens its season this Friday night against the team that knocked them out of the NJCAA regional tournament last year, the Jackson Jets. Both received votes in the national pre-season poll. Click the above headline for details.
Girls Basketball
NMU To Retire #40 Jersey Of Escanaba's Lisa Maki
October 23, 2024The Northern Michigan women's basketball team will be retiring Lisa Jamula Maki's #40 jersey, its first jersey retirement in program history, on Sunday, November 3 at 4 p.m. in an exhibition against Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Click the above headline for details.
Girls Basketball
Bay College Hires New Women's Basketball Coach
October 07, 2024Bay College Athletic Director Matt Johnson has announced the hiring of James Fassett as the next Head Women's Basketball Coach for the Bay College Norse. Fassett boasts more the 20 years in women's basketball coaching experience. Click the above headline for details.
Girls Basketball
ONE AND DONE: Ciochetto Resigns As Bay Coach
September 20, 2024Todd Ciochetto, who led the Bay College Norse women's basketball team on an improbable turnaround into the national rankings last season, abruptly resigned on Thursday after just one year on the job. Click the above headline for details.
Girls Basketball
Norse Sign Three Hematites, One Texan To Letters
April 12, 2024The Bay College Norse women's basketball team grew its incoming class by three more players this week as Coach Todd Chiochetto continues to build on last season's surprising success. Click the above headline for details. (Holly Letson photo)
Girls Basketball
All-UP Girls Basketball Award-Winners Announced
April 05, 2024The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announed the All-U.P. teams Friday night for the just-completed girls basketball season. Negaunee's Ella Mason was named Miss U.P. Basketball as the Upper Peninsula's best player. Click the above headline to see all of the winners. (Photo of Ella Mason/Hudl)
Girls Basketball
STATE CHAMPIONS! Ishpeming Brings Home Title
March 23, 2024The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team fell behind early, but recovered to pull past Kingston, 73-54, to win the MHSAA Division Four state championship Saturday in East Lansing. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA photo, story)
Girls Basketball
Negaunee Miners Come Up Short In State Semifinal
March 23, 2024The Negaunee Miners historic girls basketball season came to an end in the MHSAA Division Two state semifinals on Friday night with a 63-46 loss to Detroit Edison at the MSU Breslin Center. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Story, MHSAA Photo/Hockey Weekly Action)
Girls Basketball
Maki, Hematites Crush Fowler; State Final Up Next
March 21, 2024The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team got 30 points from Jenna Maki, 22 of them in the first half, and the Hematites rolled past the Fowler Eagles, 75-40, in the MHSAA Division Four state semifinals Thursday night at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the MHSAA. (MHSAA photo)
Girls Basketball
Sault Ste. Marie Student Wins MHSAA Scholarship
March 21, 2024Isabella DeWildt of Sault Ste. Marie High School was honored as a recipient of the Michigan High School Athletic Association/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award. The presentatipon was made at the boys basketball finals last weekend at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. She will receive $2,000 to use at her college of choice. (MHSAA Photo)
Girls Basketball
Bay College Women's Hoops Signs Three Yoopers
March 20, 2024Bay College women's basketball coach Todd Ciochetto is busy restocking the shelves for next season, less than two weeks after the Norse season ended in the regional semifinals. Click the above headline to see who has signed. (Pictured: Menominee's Axtall)
Girls Basketball
2024 U.P. GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFF SCORES
March 17, 2024The MHSAA girls basketball playoffs are in full swing across the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules.
Girls Basketball
SEASON OVER: NMU Women Fall To No. 1 Lakers
March 16, 2024Escanaba graduate Nicole Kamin scored 20 points and blocked three shots as top-ranked Grand Valley State eliminated the Northern Michigan University women's basketball team, 72-44, in the NCAA Regional Semifinals on Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
Girls Basketball
JACY GOES OFF! NMU Women Win NCAA Opener
March 16, 2024Jacy Weisbrod scored a career-high 29 points while tying a single-game program record with nine triples as the Northern Michigan women's basketball team dominated in its first NCAA Tournament game in five years, knocking off Kentucky Wesleyan 69-56. Click the above headline for details, and to hear post-game comments from Jacy Weisbrod and Coach Casey Thosuand.
