The Kingsford High School volleyball team won a district championship Thursday night, but it sure wasn't easy. After a big escape from a deep hole in the semifinals on Wednesday, the Flivvers had to battle the Negaunee Miners into four sets before posting a 3-1 win at the Kingsford High School Gym. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee Miners finished as Division One U.P. Finals winners Wednesday for the fourth straight year, edging Westwood by one point in Wednesday’s tournament. (MHSAA story/Negaunee HS Photo)
The Negaunee High School girls tennis team won the Mid Peninsula Conference championship on Thursday. The Miners had 44 points, with Westwood second at 36 points. Negaunee won six of the eight championship flights: Lili Saunders, Rheana Nelson, and Addi Chapman in singles. The doubles teams of Nicole Kerkela and Clare O'Donnell; Olivia Richards and Sadie Rogers; and Paige O'Donnell and Maia Brunette also won championships. Ishpeming (20 points) finished third on the team scoreboard. Norway (14 points) was fourth and Iron Mountain (4 points) finished fifth.
The Negaunee High School football team used its strength in the trenches to overwhelm the Gladstone Braves, 25-2, in a high school football game Friday night at the Marble Athletic Field. It was a hard-hitting game all night by both teams, a typical Gladstone-Negaunee physical battle like so many others in this rivalry.
The Negaunee High School baseball team battled hard on Saturday, but could not get over the hump in a MHSAA Division Three regional championship game against perennial powerhouse Traverse City St. Francis, losing, 4-3. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee Miners made history Wednesday night, picking up their first regional win in school history, 12-0, in a MHSAA Division Three semifinal over the Gladstone Braves. Tristan Slater threw four innings of no-hit ball and he drove in the first run of the game for Negaunee. Click the above headline for details, video highlights, and radio replay.
The Escanaba High School baseball team picked up two wins on Saturday as the Eskymos hosted a triangular with Negaunee and Rudyard. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula high school hockey season has wrapped up. Click the above headline to see the scores for the ten U.P. teams.
Jordan Guenette scored 20 points and the Negaunee Miners used strong defense to beat the Escanaba Eskymos, 64-42, Tuesday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and to listen to post-game interviews.
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)
The Negaunee Miners won their third straight MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula girls tennis championship on Wednesday, taking six of the eight flights in Escanaba and Gladstone. Westwood was runners up. Click the above headline for the details.
The Negaunee High School girls tennis team picked up another Mid Peninsula Conference championship on Thursday, edging the Westwood Patriots for the MPC title, heading into next week's MHSAA Division One championships in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
Weston Yesney rushed for 182 yards and scored three touchdowns, and the Negaunee defense completely shut down the Gladstone offense, as the Miners throttled the Braves, 28-7, Friday night at Miners Stadium. Click the above headline for details. (Brad Landis photo)
The Negaunee High School football team is back on the practice field, and the Miners have a chip on their shoulders after being knocked out of the playoffs last year by the Gladstone Braves. Click the above headline to read more, and to hear from three Miners seniors.
The Negaunee High School boys tennis team took home another Upper Peninsula Division One championship on Wednesday. It's the tenth time in 13 years that the Miners have won the title. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MHSAA. (MSHS Photo)
The Gladstone High School softball team pulled off two improbable comebacks against one of the best teams in the state Thursday night, beating the Negaunee Miners, 8-7 and 12-11. The Miners entered the doubleheader with a 19-1 record. Click the above headline for details.
Bon LaChance hit a pair of home runs Wednesday as the Escanaba Eskymos swpt a baseball doubleheader from the Neguanee Miners, 6-5 and 6-1, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Gladstone Braves and Negaunee Miners hooked up in a pair of tightly-contested baseball games Thursday evening at Don Olsen Field. The Braves pulled out both games, 2-0 and 4-1, as the Miners stranded 16 baserunners in the doubleheader. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announed the All-U.P. teams Friday night for the just-completed girls basketball season. Negaunee's Ella Mason was named Miss U.P. Basketball as the Upper Peninsula's best player. Click the above headline to see all of the winners. (Photo of Ella Mason/Hudl)
The Negaunee Miners historic girls basketball season came to an end in the MHSAA Division Two state semifinals on Friday night with a 63-46 loss to Detroit Edison at the MSU Breslin Center. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Story, MHSAA Photo/Hockey Weekly Action)
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team played strong defense and upset the Negaunee Miners, 51-48, in the Division Two district semifinals Wednesday night. CLick the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos went into survival mode Tuesday night as the MHSAA regional playoffs begam, grinding out a 3-1 win over the Negaunee Miners and their stubborn goaltender, Patrick Klumpp. Click the above headline for details, plus photos, videos taken by Lizzie Taylor.
The Escanaba High School hockey team opened a three-games-in-four nights stretch Tuesday night with a 9-1 win over the Negaunee Miners in Negaunee. Click the above headline for details, photos and videos taken by Ben Sands, and to listen to post-game interviews,
Aydan Miles scored a double hat trick, six goals, to help the Negaunee Miners hockey team win the opening game of a tournament in Wisconsin on Wednesday, 8-5, over the host Waupaca Comets. Miles added an assist for seven total points as the Miners rallied from a 5-2 third period deficit to pick up the road win. Click the above headline for more details.
Nolan Bink had a goal and six assists as the Escanaba Eskymos beat a shorthanded Negaunee Miners team, 10-2, Tuesday night, at the Wells Sports Complex. Alex Schwalbach added a hat trick and Carson Hughes chipped in two goals in the win. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos taken by Liz Taylor and Cooper LaMarch.
The Gladstone Braves football team ended four years of playoff frustration by beating the Negaunee Miners, 28-14, Friday night, at the Marble Athletic Field. The Braves took down the defending state runners-up, and the team that had ended their season in each of the past three playoffs. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
The U.P. Division One Girls Tennis Awards have been announced, and the co-champion Escanaba Eskymos and Negaunee Miners cleaned up the top awards. Escanaba's Sophia Derkos led the way, winning her second straight U.P. Player of the Year award. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Negaunee Miners finished as co-Upper Peninsula champions after Wednesday's MHSAA Division One Tournament in Marquette. Both teams finished undefeated seasons after they tied for first with 16 points each. Westwood had a great day, too, with 14 points. CLick the above headline for details.
It was a heavyweight battle between two top teams in the Upper Peninsula high school girls tennis, and there was nothing settled as the Escanaba Eskymos and Negaunee Miners finished in a 4-4 tie. Click the above headline for the details.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Negaunee Miners went the distance in volleyball Tuesday night, with the Eskymos pulling off a 3-2 win at the Escanaba High School Gym. The scores were 25-17, 27-25, 23-25, 16-25, 15-11. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, other scores.