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.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team advanced to the state championship game on Friday, with an easy 10-0 win over the Copper Country Flames at Haley Field. Erik Johnson barely broke a sweat, striking out 12 batters and allowing just two hits in five innings. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team turned to "small ball" to turn around their Class A State tournament opener against Rosebush from the Mount Pleasant area Thursday. The Blues put down several successful bunts to take the lead, and then held on at the end as the downstate team mounted a late challenge. Marquette won, 8-5. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team cruised to two more victories on Sunday, winning the Upper Peninsula Zone Five championship at Gladstone's Don Olsen Field. The Blues victory ended a string of "near misses" over the past several years. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and radio interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team won two games on Friday, and the Escanaba Cubs lost a down-to-the-wire battle with the Bark River Bucs, as the second day of the Upper Peninsula Zone Five Tournament was held in Delta County. Click the above headline for details, and see photos and videos and other scores.
Grant LaMarche threw a complete-game one-hitter, striking out 13 batters as the Escanaba Cubs upset the Marquette Blues, 1-0, in the first game of the American Legion Zone Five Tournament on Thursday in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Cubs had the lead all night long Wednesday night, but had the game literally slip away when rain started pouring down in the bottom of seventh inning as the Marquette Blues took advantage for a 5-4 win at Haley Field. Click the above headline for details, post-game interviews, and photos taken by Sheila Olsen.
The Marquette Blues took advantage of ten walks, five errors, and three hit-battsmen to roll past the Dickinson County Greens, 10-0, Tuesday night in Marquette. Justin Wenk threw a two-hitter. Click the above headline to read details and to see photos.
The Marinette Firecracker American Legion Baseball Tournament was cancelled again on Sunday after all-night rains Saturday night flooded the fields that were already saturated from Saturday morning and afternoon rains. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team opened the Marinette Firecracker Tournament on Friday with an impressive 7-3 win over the Green Bay Preble Shockers. The Blues had lost to the Shockers at the Escanaba tournament last week. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team scored five runs in the fourth inning and Justin Wenk made it stand up on the mound in a 6-1 Blues win over the Escanaba Cubs on Wednesday. Marquette wrapped up its six games in Delta County with a 3-3 record. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and hear interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team stayed alive in the state tournament on Friday with a 3-2 win over the Gladwin Lightning. But the Blues couldn't hold an 8-4 lead against Rosebush, and lost, 9-8. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Blues lost an extra innings heartbreaker to Rosebush, 2-1, as the American Legion Baseball state tournament opened on Thursday in Gladwin. Click the above headline to see the details, and see the tournament bracket.
The Gladstone Indians scored four runs in the first inning and cruised to a 9-3 win over the Marquette Blues in the championship game of the Zone Five American Legion Baseball tournament Sunday in Gladstone. It's the third straight U.P. title for Gladstone. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, video highlignhts, interviews.
The Gladstone Indians and Marquette Blues have advanced to the American Legion Baseball Zone Five championship after winning their semifinal games on Saturday. The championship game was rained out and will be played Sunday. Both teams qualified for the state tournament in Gladwin. Click the above headline for details, videos highlights.
The temperatures were hot and so was the baseball on Friday as the Upper Peninsula Zone Five American Legion Tournament continued in Delta County. The eight team field was cut to the final four, with Gladstone, Menominee, Marquette, and Copper Country advancing to Saturday's action. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Marquette Blues pounded Pulaski, 12-0, at the Firecracker Tournament on Sunday in Marinette, Wis., while the Escanaba Cubs and Menominee Red Wave were both mercied by their opponents. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team rallied from four runs down to beat the Green Bay Shockers, 13-7, Friday afternoon at the Firecracker Tournament in Marinette, Wis. Menominee lost to Manitowoc, 6-1, in the other game in the afternoon session. Click the above headline to read details and see photos, videos from both games.
The Firecracker American Legion Baseball Tournament wrapped up on Sunday in Marinette, Wis., with all four Upper Peninsula teams losing their final games to Wisconsin opponents. The Gladstone Indians fell to the host Marinette team, 6-2, in a rain-shortened championship. Click the above headline for photos and a recap of Sunday's games.
The Marquette Blues and Menominee Red Wave American Legion Baseball teams both lost to the host Copper Country Flames as the U.P. Zone Five Tournament continued on Friday. Marquette also eliminated Ishpeming. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team split its games on Saturday at the Marinette Firecracker Tournament, beating the host team, 4-3, before losing to Manitowoc, 5-4. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos
After struggling for the past two seasons to put a representative team on the ice, Marquette Junior Hockey President Jeff Cornock announced Monday that the Marquette Electricians 18U AAA Midget Major Hockey Team would be ceasing operations, effective immediately. Click the above headline for more.
The American Legion Baseball Class A State Tournament got off to a rough start on Thursday for the Upper Peninsula’s teams. The Escanaba Cubs dropped a 14-5 decision to Petoskey, while the Marquette Blues lost a 1-0 heartbreaker to Hudson. But the Gladstone Indians managed to get a 4-0 win over Petoskey. Click the above headline for more details, photos, and videos.
The Gladstone Braves had an easy day on the courts Monday, winning all eight flights from the Norway Knights. Two of the wins were 6-0, 6-0, while two others were 6-1, 6-0. Meanwhile, the Escanaba Eskymos traveled to Marquette and lost, 8-0. Only two of the Eskymo matches made it past straight sets. Pictured: Gladstone's Cody Frazer serves in his doubles match. Click the above headline to see more details from both tennis matches.