Manistique High School sports broadcaster Dick Ketcik has been given a statewide reward for his work with the Emeralds on the radio. Ketcik was inducted into the Basketball Coach's Association's Hall of Honor last weekend in Lansing, recognizing his many years work on WTIQ-AM (1490). Click the above headline for details.
The Manistique High School boys track team won the MHSAA Division Two boys track championship Saturday in Kingsford, the school's first U.P. Title since 1960. Click the above headline to read the details.
The Gladstone High School softball team scored nine runs in the fourth inning Tuesday and cruised to a 10-0 victory over the Manistique Emeralds. Gladstone later blasted Pickford-Cedarville, 18-0, to advance to Saturday's district championship game. Click the above headline to see details.
The Upper Peninsula girls basketball season has come to an end. Click the above headline to see all of this season's scores from across the U.P.
Manistique High School graduate Mike Nagy won the Michigan Junior Amateur Golf Tournament championship Thursday in Flint. He defeated Otto Black of Pinckney Michigan 3-and-1 to win the title of the 34th annual event. The 18-year-old Nagy will attend the University of Tennessee this fall on a golf scholarship. Click the above headline for more details.
The Marquette Redmen swept the Division One boys and girls championships at the Upper Peninsula Track and Field Finals in Kingsford on Saturday. In Division Two, the Saint Ignace Saints took the team title for both the boys and girls. And in Division Three, Pickford and Brimley took first-place trophies back to the Eastern U.P. Delta County was well-represented, with Gladstone's boys taking second place in Division One and Bark River-Harris's boys taking second in Division Three. Click the above headline to see all of Saturday's results.
The Gladstone High School softball team cruised to another district championship on Friday, beating the Negaunee Miners, 8-0, and then turning back the Houghton Gremlins, 13-0. Houghton eliminated Manistique, 9-3, earlier in the day. Christine Sharon got the win in both games for the Braves, and Jordan Schwartz had a home run and four RBI in the second game. Click the above headline to read the game story, to see photos and videos, and to listen to audio highlights.
The Rapid River Rockets got 12 strong innings from Heather Sanderson and a clutch hit from Sam Peterson to sweep a doubleheader from the Negaunee Miners, 1-0 and 9-3, Monday in Rapid River. At the same time, in St. Ignace, the Manistique Emeralds split a pair of games with the Saints. Click the above headline to read all of the details.
The Manistique High School softball team has now won six straight games. The Emeralds won the championship of its "Pink Tournament" on Saturday, beating Munising, 4-2, and Norway, 9-3. The Emeralds made just one error in the doublehader. "You can't go wrong when you get defense like that," Manistique Coach Dave McNeil said. Haley MacGregor got the pitching victory in both games.
Manistique High School Senior Mike Nagy is in the spotlight as the Michigan High School Athletic Association chose him as its top story for the week. Nagy is a golfer, and he is the best in the Upper Peninsula this spring. He has signed to play college golf at the University of Tennessee. Click the above headline to read the story, written by the MHSAA's Geoff Kimmerly.
The Rapid River Rockets won two more games on Thursday, beating the Manistique Emeralds, 18-5 and 14-2 in Manistique. In the first game, the Emeralds managed to keep it a 3-3 game in the fourth inning before the Rockets blew it open. Averi Kanyuh got the pitching win, with Neena Brockway throwing the last three innings. Brockway also had five hits (including three doubles) in the game. In the second game, Savannah Stenlund pitched all five innings to earn the win. Haley MacGregor took the pitching loss in both games for Manistique. Click the above headline for more details.
The Manistique and Big Bay de Noc School Boards have approved having a co-op football program this fall. The decisions came at special meetings on Monday so that the schools could meet the Michigan High School Athletic Association's deadline for notification. The vote in Manistique was 4-3; it was 7-0 in Big Bay.
The Escanaba High School boys golf team opened the 2012 season on Monday placing first in the eight-team Gladstone Invitational. The Eskymos had 317 strokes, five better than second-place Marquette. Menominee was third with 335 strokes. Manistique's Mike Nagy and Nick LaFave were the medalists in the scramble format, shooting a 71. Escanaba's Kevin Gendron and Phil LaMarch were second with 73's. Gladstone's Drew Scheeneman and Jake Peterson were tied for second with 73's.
The Manistique Emeralds varsity softball team welcomed two guests to the Emerald City on Monday for a softball doubleheader: the Escanaba JV Eskymos, and Old Man Winter. The teams played softball under snowy, windy conditions, with the JV Eskymos getting a big first inning to top Manistique, 13-7. The second game was cancelled. "It was terrible," Manistique Coach Dave McNeil said. "Big winds, big snowflakes. And I'll tell you what. There's a huge advantage to getting big runs in the first inning when it's 28-degree weather! We played even with them after that, but that first inning was big." Click the above headline to see the Emeralds' season results and other information.
The Manistique Emeralds jumped to a 3-0 lead early in their softball game against the Norway Knights Wednesday afternoon. But the Knights scored five runs in the second inning to get the lead, and Norway went on to post a 9-4 win in the first game of the doubleheader. The Knights also won the second game, 13-8. This twinbill was played one day late after cold, windy conditions on Tuesday forced the postponement. Pictured: Manistique's Sammi Williams takes a "strike" during Wednesday afternoon's game. Click the headline above to see more photos and video clips from the game.
Delta County's three high school softball teams had a successful weekend at the ninth annual Northern Michigan University "Spring Swing" softball tournament. The Rapid River Rockets won all three of their games, the Escanaba Eskymos went 2-1, and the Gladstone Braves went 1-1-1, with their only loss coming to the Rockets. And the Escanaba junior varsity team won all three of its games in the two-day event. See all of the scores by clicking the picture above.(Pictured: Rapid River's Neena Brockway digs in during a game during last year's regional tournament)
The plan didn't work exactly the way Phil Griebel wanted it to work. But in the end, it worked. Griebel started several players who normally do not see much playing time on "Senior Night" and the Braves fell behind the Manistique Emeralds, 14-0, halfway through the first quarter. The team pulled together to get to within one point at halftime, and went on a 25-2 run in the second half to close the regular season with a 71-59 win. Four Gladstone Braves scored in double figures, and a couple of guys took turns at helping the team dig out from underneath that 14-0 hole.
