The Gladstone Braves baseball team stayed undefeated in Great Northern Conference play with a pair of wins on Monday over the Menominee Maroons, 4-2 and 13-3, at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for photos and videos taken by Nate Belleville.
Former Menominee High School student-athletes have established the “Ken Hofer Maroon Student-Athlete Scholarship Fund” in honor of long-time Menominee football coach and mentor, Ken Hofer. Click the above headline to read details.
The Menominee Maroons got off to a fast start and cruised to a 56-45 win over the Escanaba Eskymos in a Division Two district semifinal game Wednesday night in Escanaba. They will face Gladstone on Friday. Click the above headline for photos, video highlights.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team scored 65 points in the first half and cruised to a 91-50 win over the Menominee Maroons Friday night. It was Gladstone's seventh straight win. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, videos.
The Gladstone Braves beat the Menominee Maroons in football for the first time since 2008 Friday night, posting a 14-0 win at Blesch Stadium. Zach Hanson's 95-yard kickoff return started the game for the Braves, and Brody Sanville's 55-yard TD run in the fourth quarter sealed it. Click the above headline for replays, interviews.
The Gladstone High School baseball team beat the Menominee Maroons, 13-4, Monday night in Gladstone, honoring its four seniors in the process. Click the above headline to read details, see photos taken by Brenda Crow, and listen to interviews with the seniors.
The Menominee High School football team turned the ball over seven times and lost to Grand Rapids West Catholic, 43-7, in the MHSAA Division Five state championship game Saturday afternoon at Ford Field in Detroit. Click the above headline for details and stats.
The Gladstone Braves hung in there for a while, but the Menominee Maroons got their offense rolling and posted a 35-6 win Friday night in Menominee. It was the final football game between the two teams, as the Braves leave the Great Northern Conference next season to join the Mid Peninsula Conference. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Menominee Maroons and Negaunee Miners ended in a 16-16 tie Thursday for the championship of the MHSAA Division One boys tennis U.P. championship. Kingsford was third with 12 and Escanaba finished fourth (5). Click the above headline for details.
The Menominee High School tennis team rolled to the Great Northern Conference championship during a soggy afternoon Thursday in Delta County. Click the above headline to see photos and video highlights. (Pictured: Gladstone's Ross Miron)
The 2015 Upper Peninsula High School football season has moved into the playoffs. Click the above headline to see the playoff scores, plus all of the 2015 regular season scores.
Nathan Nowack set a Menominee High School record by scoring seven touchdowns as the Maroons beat the Gladstone Braves, 63-13, Friday in Gladstone. Nowack scored two touchdowns on the ground and threw five touchdown passes. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and videos taken by Nate Bellville.
The fourth time was not the charm for the Menominee High School Football team on Saturday. The Maroons lost to Grand Rapids West Catholic, 27-14, in the Division Five State Championship game at Detroit's Ford Field. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MHSAA.
Three Upper Peninsula high school football teams played in state semifinal action on Saturday. The Ishpeming Hematites beat Pewamo-Westphalia, 8-7, to advance to next week's state championship game in Detroit. The Menominee Maroons lost a heartbreaker to Grand Rapids West Catholic, 20-17, and the St. Ignace Saints were beaten by Beal City, 25-7. Click the above headline to read recaps of all three games.
Big news in Upper Peninsula high school football. Longtime Menominee Maroons Coach Ken Hofer announced his retirement on Monday. He won 320 games over more than four decades coaching at both Stephenson and Menominee, using the old single wing offense. Hofer won three state championship games in Menominee, and was inducted into the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame in 1987. Click the above headline to read more.
The Gladstone High School tennis team posted a 5-3 win over the Menominee Maroons Thursday in Menominee, as the #1 doubles team of Cody Frazer and Bryce Wolf rallied to win a three-set match. Meanwhile, further north, in Negaunee, the Escanaba Eskymos ran into a buzzsaw, falling to the Negaunee Miners, 7-1. Pictured: Escanaba's Kyle Pinozek teamed up with his partner Nate Belanger to provide Escanaba's only win. Click the above headline to read about both of Thursday's matches.
The Escanaba High School tennis team picked up its first win of the 2012 season on Thursday, turning back the Menominee Maroons, 8-0. The win came under sunny conditions, but there was a cold, gusty wind that made it very difficult to return the ball...or to serve...effectively. Pictured: Eskymo junior Jake Eastin lunges after a ball during Thursday's match. Click the above headline to see all of the results and more photos from the match.
