The latest match-up between the Menominee Maroons and Marinette Marines boys basketball teams Saturday night went the same way most recent M&M games have gone: into the Menominee win column. The Maroons won their tenth straight game, beating the Marines for the second time this season, 92-67. Tanner Theurkauf led the Maroons with 23 points, all but one of them in the second half. Kaden Ducane had 20 points ane eight rebounds for the Marines. Menominee improved to 10-1 on the season while Marinette fell to 4-11.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team got off to a slow start Tuesday night at the Border Battle in Menominee, but the Braves clamped down on defense in the second half to beat the Marinette Marines, 41-28. In Tuesday's second game, Menominee crushed the Green Bay West Wildcats, 90-52, as Tanner Theuerkauf scored 29 points. Click the above headline for details and interviews.
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 Menominee Maroons scored three straight touchdowns in the fourth quarter to stun the Pewamo-Westphalia Pirates, 32-28, in the MHSAA Division Seven state semifinal on Saturday. The Maroons punch their ticket to the state championship game next weekend at Detroit's Ford Field. Click the above headline for all of the game details.
-The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association has released its 2025 All-UP football teams. A group of 19 reporters from every corner of the UP voted on the best-of-the-best during a meeting at Northern Michigan University. Menominee standout quarterback Tanner Theuerkauf led the way in the voting by being an unanimous pick for Dream Team quarterback, Offensive Player of the Year, and as Mr. Football for the regioin's best overall player. Click the above headline for more.
Nine Upper Peninsula high school football teams survived the first weekend of the playoffs, and will play some November games next weekend. Escanaba, Kingsford, Menominee, Bark River-Harris, and Iron Mountain are all alive in 11-player. Norway, North Dickinson, Pickford and Lake Linden-Hubbell are alive in eight-player. Click the above headline to see the schedules and Week One scores.
The Menominee High School football team scored four touchdowns in the first quarter and never looked back Friday night, blowing out the Gladstone Braves, 61-6, on Maroons Homecoming at Blesch Stadium. Senior quarterback Tanner Theuerkauf threw three touchdown passes, all of them to fellow senior Landen Daigneau, to help the Maroons jump to a 27-0 lead before the first quarter was over.
The Calumet High School girls basketball team advanced to the MHSAA Division Three regional final Monday night with a 64-40 win over the Menominee Maroons in the semifinal at the Escanaba High School Gym. Click the above headline to see photos and videos.
Tanner Theuerkauf threw two touchdwn passes and ran in two more scores as the top-ranked Menominee Maroons stayed undefeated with a 49-7 win over the Gladstone Braves on Braves Homecoming Friday night. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sports Writers and Sportscasters Association came out Tuesday with its first high school football polls of the season. A panel of five members of the media from across the U.P. votes every week on the best teams. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School baseball team pounded out 18 base hits Tuesday evening, with six different guys getting two hits apiece, and the Braves beat the Menominee Maroons, 16-2, in the MHSAA Division Three district tournament opener at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos taken by GHS student Jayger Quinn.
The Menominee Maroons football team fought hard on Sunday against heavily-favored Jackson Lumen Christi in the MHSAA Division Seven state championship game, but lost, 34-30, in an entertaining, back-and-forth contest at Detroit's Ford Field. Click the above headline for the details, and to listen back to the Maroons radio broadcast.
The Maroons won their sixth straight game Friday night as Landan Bardowski rushed for four touchdowns and Trevor Theuerkauf passed for two more scores in a 44-26 win over the Gladstone Braves. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and 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 cruised to two wins over the Menominee Maroons, 17-0 and 7-0, at the Gladstone Sports Park. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and to listen to post-game interviews.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team hosted a quad meet Monday night inside the “other” half of the program's co-op: North Central High School. The match was moved from the original site, Menominee, which has not had any classes or sporting events in its school all year long due to mold damage. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The Escanaba High School girls basketball team improved to 12-0 on the season with a 62-46 win over the Menominee Maroons Monday night. The Eskymos led by as many as 27 points in the game. Click the above headline for details, 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 Great Northern Conference football awards have been announced. They were voted on by the coaches from Escanaba, Gladstone, Marquette, Menominee, and Kingsford High Schools. Click the above headline to see the list of winners.
The Upper Peninsula football weekend got underway with junior varsity games Thursday night, and the Gladstone Braves used a potent aerial attack to win their home opener. Click the above headline for details, photos and video highlights.
The Gladstone High School Baseball team rolled to the MHSAA Division Three district championship on Friday, beating Superior Central, 12-2, in the semifinals, and topping Newberry, 15-0, in the finals. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School Softball team beat Manistique 17-0 and Menominee 8-0 to capture the MSHAA Division Three District Championship on Friday. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School baseball team won two games on Tuesday to close the regular season, beating Menominee, 7-0, and Bark River-Harris, 10-0. EHS improved to 24-8 on the season. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Gladstone Braves scored 11 runs in the first two innings to beat Menominee Maroons, 15-5, Tuesday night in high school baseball at Don Olsen Field. Gavin Frossard drove in three runs, Braden Sundquist scored four times, Tyler Darmogray had two hits and Cam Kelly scored three runs. The Braves (12-4-1) travel to Negaunee for a doubleheader on Wednesday.
Cam Kelly had four hits, including two triples and a grand slam home run, to help the Gladstone High School baseball team rally past the Menominee Maroons, 16-5, in a Great Northern Conference game on Saturday in Menominee. Click the above headline for details.
Scott Hiller had three hits and drove in six runs as the Escanaba Eskymos pounded the Menominee Maroons, 21-1, Monday at Spies Field. Click the above headline for details.
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.
The Menominee Maroons boys basketball team fell behind early and could not recover, and lost to the Schoolcraft Eagles, 59-49, Saturday, in the Division Three state championship game at the Breslin Center. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Photo)
The Menominee High School basketball team built a big lead in the first half and then held off a second half push by the Ecorse Red Raiders to post a 74-56 win in Thursday's state semifinal at the Breslin Center. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Photo)
