The Zone Five American Legion Tournament got underway on Thursday as Gladstone defeated Iron Mountain 11-4, Escanaba beat Eastern UP 10-6, Marquette rolled Ishpeming 17-4, and Copper Country escaped 6-5 against Menominee. Click the above headline for details.
Three American Legion Baseball teams played in a round-robin tournament Saturday on the historic Felch Field in Dickinson County, and all three teams left the event with a victory. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion Baseball team scored eight runs in the second inning and rolled past the Iron Mountain Golds, 12-2, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Iron Mountain Golds beat the Menominee Red Wave, 5-2, Wednesday night at Spies Field. IM scored all five runs in the first two innings. Chase Carlson had a pair of doubles and drove in a run. Evan Haferkorn had a two-run single. Jimmy Coldren had two hits for the Red Wave. Three IM pitchers threw: Isaac Lorenzoni, Henry McRoberts, and Carson Chartier. Kennison Boivin took the loss for the Red Wave. Menominee won the nigtcap, 10-5.
The Iron Mountain Golds won their second straight Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament championship on Sunday in Escanaba, rallying past the Copper Country Flames, 11-7, in the semifinals, and then holding off Marinette in the title game, 10-8. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and radio interviews.
The semifinals are set for the Gregg Johnson American Baseball Memorial Tournament in Delta County. Click the above headline for all of the scores and photos.
The Iron Mountain Golds, Copper Country Flames, and Marinette Legion baseball teams all went 2-0 on the first day of the Gregg Johnson Memorial tournament on a windy Friday in Delta County. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
A successful baseball season came to a startling end for the Dickinson County Greens American Legion team as they were disqualified from the Zone Five Upper Peninsula championships after winning their first three games. Click the above headline for details.
The Dickinson County Greens American Legion Baseball team rallied from q 3-0 deficit to beat the Gladstone Indians, 6-5, in the first game of the Upper Peninsula Zone Five tournament on Thursday. Click the above headline to read details.
The Marquette Blues took advantage of ten walks, five errors, and three hit-battsmen to roll past the Dickinson County Greens, 10-0, Tuesday night in Marquette. Justin Wenk threw a two-hitter. Click the above headline to read details and to see photos.
The Dickinson County Greens American Legion Baseball team raced to an 8-0 lead and rolled past the Gladstone Indians 12-5 Sunday night in Gladstone. Blake Julian drove in six runs and Caleb Johnson was in control on the mound for the Iron Mountain-Based team, which used to be called the Golds. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Eastern Upper Peninsula Wood Ducks scored seven runs in the final inning Friday to rally past Iron Mountain, 10-6, at Liuna Field in Iron Mountain. The Greens played without nine of their 18 players due to a variety of other commitments. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and video highlights.
The Iron Moumtain American Legion Baseball team picked up two more wins on Friday, beating the Bark River Bucs, 10-2, and then topping a shorthanded Escanaba team, 7-0, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headlime for details, photos, video clips.
Andrew Paupore threw a complete-game six-hitter as the Iron Mountain American Legion baseball team beat Marinette, Wis., 3-1 on Sunday to win the annual Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The folks who run some of the Upper Peninsula’s American Legion Baseball programs say they’re not giving up on playing baseball at some point this summer here in the U.P. It just won't be "legion ball". Click the above headline for details.
The 49th annual Upper Peninsula Hardball Classic came to an end on Sunday in Iron Mountain, with the Fox Cities Ssquatches winning another championship. The Sasquatches won the title for the eighth time since 2010. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The temperatures were hot and so was the baseball on Friday as the Upper Peninsula Zone Five American Legion Tournament continued in Delta County. The eight team field was cut to the final four, with Gladstone, Menominee, Marquette, and Copper Country advancing to Saturday's action. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Iron Mountain Golds won the championship of the Escanaba Junior Cubs American Legion Baseball Tournament Sunday evening, beating Graetz Manufacturing of Coleman, Wis, 6-0, at Al Ness Field. Norway High School's Kody Hendricks threw a complete-game one-hitter. The Golds broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning with four runs, two of them on an Isaac Ray hit. Click the above headline to see photos and videos from the game.
