The Michigan Veterans Baseball/American Legion tournament was called off on Saturday when two batches of heavy rain fell on the Sault Ste. Marie area, making the fields unplayable. The six-team toournament managed to get all of its games played on Friday, with each team getting to play twice.
The Post 44 Legion Blues won the third state championship in program history on Saturday, outlasting the Gladstone Indians, 4-2, in the Class A tournament title game before a large crowd at Marquette's Haley Field. Click the above headline for details.
Munising High School graduate had a career night on Friday to help the Post 44 Legion Blues advance to the American Legion Baseball state championship game at Haley Field. Walther slugged a home run and ripped a pair of doubles as the Blues beat Three Oaks, 9-4, to punch their ticket to Saturday's final. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan American Legion Class A State Tournament begins on Thursday in Marquette, and the six teams involved in the event met Wednesday night for a "welcome dinner" at Lakeview Arena. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews, and to read more details.
The Escasnaba Cubs American Legion Baseball team jumped to a 4-0 lead and advanced to the Zone Five semifinals with a 6-3 win over the Post 44 Legion Blues Friday night. Cannon Arnt pitched a complete game for the Cubs. Click the above headline for details.
It was a big night for baseball in Marquette Wednesday night as the Marquette Post 44 Blues played against an alumni team of former Blues players, and then four people who helped to build the program were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Post 44 Blues American Legion baseball team scored six runs in the first inning and cruised past the Gladstone Indians, 10-4, Monday night in Gladstone, as two Bay College teammates hit home runs for opposing teams. Click the above headline for details.
The brand new Norway Vikings American Legion baseball team made quick history on Sunday, winning the Upper Peninsula Zone Five Championship at Marquette's Haley Field. They advance to the state tournament in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details.
Four teams advanced to the Upper Peninsula Zone Five semifinals in American Legion Baseball on Friday after a long day of eight games played on two separate fields. Click the above headline for all of the scores and for game details.
The Marquette Reds American Legion Baseball team won the Junior Association championship on Sunday, winning a war against Norway, 2-1, in the semifinals, and then rolling over Kingsford, 12-0, in the championship game. Click the above headline for photos, videos, listen to interviews, and how some Marquette players broadcasted the game.
Aedan Creten hit a three-run homer and Issac Ketchum tossed 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief as the Gladstone Indians beat the Marquette Blues, 6-2, Wednesday night at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion baseball team shook off Friday night's extra inning loss by winning two games on Saturday at the Wood Ducks Tournament in Sault Ste. Marie. Meanwhile, at the same tournament, the Marquette Blues suffered a pair of lopsided losses after winning their first game Friday night. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team hung on to earn a win in Wisconsin Friday night, while the Marquette Blues won on a walk-off and the Escanaba Cubs lost a wild game in Sault Ste. Marie. Click the above headline to read the details.
Alex Ortman struck out eleven batters and pitched a complete game as the Norway Vikings American Legion Baseball team rallied from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Marquette Blues, 5-4, Wednesday night in Norway. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team bounced back from last weekend's rough weekend in Wisconsin by posting a home win Thursday night, 8-4, over the Escanaba Cubs, at Haley Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team wrapped up its play at the Firecracker Tournament in Marinette on Sunday the same way it started the event on Friday: with an error-filled loss. The Blues made four more errors Sunday and lost to Watertown, 13-3. The Blues ended up making 20 errors in four games. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team could not overcome five defensive errors on Friday, and lost the first game of the Firecracker Tournament to Green Bay Southwest, 5-4, at Pederson Ballpark in Marinette. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion Baseball team wrapped up its remarkable playoff run Saturday with a 11-5 win over the defending state champion Marquette Blues, before losing to a stacked Trenton Steel travel team, 12-2, in the state title game. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos from the games.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team ran into a stacked line-up of college-level players Friday night, and lost to the Trenton Steel, 12-1, at Trenton High School. Click the above headline for details and to see photos and video highlights.
Kyle Frusti got the walk-off hit for the Marquette Blues as they topped the Gaylord Baseball Club in their opening game of the State Class A American Legion Tournament. Click the above headline for more details, photos, videos, and interviews from the game.
A shorthanded Escanaba Cubs team stunned the Upper Peninsula's top team Saturday to earn a spot in next week's Michigan Class A State Tournament, while the Marquette Blues won the U.P. title and will try to defend last year's state title. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Blues Legion team topped the Gladstone Indians 10-3 in the UP Semifinal game on Saturday. The Indians fell one game short of advancing to the state tournament. Click the above headline for more details.
The Zone Five American Legion Tournament got underway on Thursday as Gladstone defeated Iron Mountain 11-4, Escanaba beat Eastern UP 10-6, Marquette rolled Ishpeming 17-4, and Copper Country escaped 6-5 against Menominee. Click the above headline for details.
The Kingsford Junior Blues beat the Marquette Reds in the Junior Legion Championship game 5-1 to capture the U.P. title on Sunday in Marquette. Click the headline for more details, pictures, videos, and interviews.
Nick Chiu celebrated his 17th birthday with five runs batted in, and Nick Kolich threw two innings of relief pitching for the save as the Escanaba Cubs won a wild 12-10 game over the Marquette Blues Wednesday in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
The Copper Country Flames American Legion Baseball team swept both ends of a doubleheader from the Marquette Blues, 4-3 and 10-5, Thursday night at Houghton High School. Click the above headline for details.
The four Upper Peninsula American Legion teams taking part in the Marinette Firecracker Tournament took losses to their Wisconsin counterparts on Friday as the eight-team tournament got started. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion Baseball team scored 13 runs in the top of the seventh inning and beat the Marquette Blues, 21-9, in a sloppy make-up game at Marquette's Haley Field. Click the above headline for the game details.
The Menominee Red Wave American Legion baseball team rode the pitching and hitting of Adrian Mercier and beat the Marquette Blues, 6-0, Tuesday night, in a match-up of two of last year's state tournament participants. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team captured a Class A state championship on Saturday, beating the surprising Copper Country Flames, 10-0, in an all-U.P. final at Marquette's Haley Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos.