The Iron Mountain High School boys basketball team won a district championship Friday night, turning back the Menominee Maroons, 56-38, in Iron Mountain. Oskar Kangas scored 22 points and Gerald Sampol-Torres added 13 for the Mountaineers. Click the above headline to see photos courtesy of the Iron Mountain Public Schools.
The Iron Mountain High School boys basketball team jumped off to a 22-point lead in the first quarter and cruised to a 73-37 win over the Escanaba Eskymos Wednesday night in Escanaba. Oskar Kangas scored 30 points after committing to play for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assoication on Friday evening unveiled the All-U.P. teams for the eleven-man football divisions. And the Iron Mountain Mountaineers cleaned up on most of the major awards. Click the above headline for the details.
The MHSAA high school football playoffS are winding down. Click the above headline to see how the U.P. teams are doing.
The Iron Mountain High School football team faced its toughest test of the season Thursday night, and the Mountaineers passed the test with flying colors. Iron Mountain raced to a 21-0 lead over the Negaunee Miners and cruised to a 35-14 win in the season finale at Mountaineer Stadium. Click the above headline for details. (Iron Mountain Public Schools photo)
Iron Mountain senior pitcher Niko Burgoon pitched a gem and he got big help from freshman third baseman Connor Pickett on Thursday, and the duo led the Mountaineers to a 3-1 upset win over the Gladstone Braves at Ranger Field. Gladstone came back to take the nightcap, 17-6. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
It was an historic evening on Thursday for the Iron Mountain High School baseball program as the Mountaineers faced the L'Anse Purple Hornets. Senior pitcher Niko Burgoon tossed a perfect game, retiring all 15 batters he faced in the five-inning game. He struck out 14 of those batters. It was the first perfect game ever thrown by a Mountaineer pitcher. Iron Mountain won the game easily, 11-0, for its first win of the season (1-3).
The Escanaba High School baseball team opened its season with a 12-3 win over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers Wednesday night at Al Ness Field. Ben Johnson and Brian Boutilier both drove in two runs in an eight-run fifth inning that put the game away. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The high school baseball season got underway on Tuesday as the Gladstone Braves swept a doubleheader from the Iron Mountain Mountaineers, 17-2, and 6-1, at Don Olsen Field. It was a rematch of last spring's regional semifinal game, but there were a lot of new faces on the field for both teams on Tuesday. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association baseball post-season tournaments are in the regional rounds across the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline for the schedules for all Upper Peninsula teams.
The Gladstone High School baseball team scored eight runs in the first inning and coasted past the Iron Mountain Mountaineers, 17-5, in the MHSAA Division Three Regional Semifinals Wednesday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Iron Mountain High School baseball team won a district championship on Saturday, winning the same number of games they won all season long: two. IM beat both Calumet and Negaunee, and now, it's on to the regional semifinals. Click the above headline for details.
The Houghton High School boys golf team cruised to a repeat of its 2022 MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division One championship on Wednesday, while a newcomer “came out of nowhere” to win individual medalist honors. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Gladstone Braves baseball team celebrated its fourth straight win on Wednesday, celebrating Senior Night with a 9-1 win over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers at Don Olsen Field. The Braves took advantage of six Iron Mountain errors to improve to 10-2 on the season. Click the above healdine to read details and to hear post-game comments.
The Escanaba Eskymos beat the Iron Mountain Mountaineers, 14-4, in the high school baseball season opener Wednesday night at Escanaba's Al Ness Field. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and to listen to post-game interviews.
Two Dickinson County wrestlers won MHSAA individual state wrestling championships on Saturday at Ford Field in Detroit, while four other U.P. boys had to settle for runners-up. Click the above headline to read details. (Thanks to Vicki Snyder for photos)
Six Upper Peninsula high school wrestlers will go for state championships on Saturday at the Michigan High School Athletic Association's individual championships at Detroit's Ford Field. Click the above headline to read all of the details.
The Gladstone and Iron Mountain High School wrestling teams had their seasons come to an end on Friday in the MHSAA state quarterfinals at Wings Stadium in Kalamazoo. Iron Mountain lost to defending state champion Hudson, 61-18, in Division Four. And in Division Three, Gladstone lost to Whitehall, 48-24. Click the above headline for details.
The Iron Mountain High School wrestling team will face a powerhouse in the Division Four state quarterfinals on Friday at Kalamazoo's Wings Stadium. The Mountaineers will battle the defending state champion Hudson Tigers in the first quarterfinal of the day at 11 a.m. CT/noon ET. Click the above headline for more.
The Upper Peninsula will be well-represented next month at the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Individual state finals at Ford Field in Detroit. The results from the individual regional tournaments on Saturday around northern Michigan ended with 28 UP Wrestlers qualifying. Click the above headline for details, photos.
Fifteen high school wrestling teams from across the Upper Peninsula and northern lower peninsula met in Manistique on Saturday for the Michigan High School Athletic Association's Division Four Individual District Tournament. Click the above headline for details.
The Iron Mountain High School boys basketball team bounced back from last week's loss to Westwood by beating the North Central Jets, 64-58, Monday night in Iron Mountain. Click the thumbnails to see photos and videos, and to hear post-game interviews.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team won the Upper Peninsula championship on Saturday in Marquette, with three boys winning U.P. Championships and four others finishing as runners-up. Iron Mountain was second on the team scoreboard, winning five individual titles. Click the above headline for all of the results, and to see photos.
The Iron Mountain High School boys basketball team raced to a 36-9 halftime lead and coasted to a 55-37 win over the Gladstone Braves Tuesday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team hosted its only home match of the season Tuesday night, and picked up victories over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers and Marquette Redmen in a quad meet. Iron Mountain topped Kingsford, while the Flivvers beat Marquette in the other matches. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters announced their All-U.P. football teams Friday evening. A panel of 20 people met for seven hours at Northern Michigan University on Wednesday to come up with this list. Click the above headline to see the winners.
The 30-member All-Southern U.P. high school baseball team has been announced, covering teams in Delta, Dickinson, Schoolcraft, Alger and Menominee Counties. It was selected by members of the media after consulting with area coaches. Escanaba pitcher Hunter Lancour was named the region's Most Valuable Player. Click the above headline for details.
Scott Hiller's walk-off RBI single in the ninth inning led the Escanaba Eskymos to a 9-8 come-from-behind win over the Iron Moumntain Mountaineers on Saturday. The grandson of 1968 Detroit Tigers World Series champion John Hiller came through two hours after Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera got his 3,000th career hit. Click the above headline for details.
The Iron Mountain Mountaineers baseball team jumped to an 8-0 lead in the first two innings and held on to beat the Gladstone Braves, 9-8, in the season-opening game Tuesday in Gladstone. Click the above headline to see details, and see photos and video highlights.
The Upper Peninsula Sportwriters and Sportscasters Association announced its 2021-22 high school boys basketball All-U.P. teams Friday night. Media members from across the U.P. met in Marquette earlier this week to make their selections. Click the above headline for details.
