The Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association is out with its All-State teams, and the Upper Peninsula is well-represented, with five First Team and nine Honorable Mention selections. Click the above headline to see the list. (Pictured: Gladstone's Taylor Trudeau)
The high school softball post-season is wrapping up across Michigan. Click the above headline for scores, schedules.
The Gladstone Braves swept a softball doubleheader from the Rapid River Rockets on Tuesday, 8-2 and 5-2, in Rapid River. Click the above headline for photos, video clips.
The Rapid River High School softball team overwhelmed the Munising Mustangs in a doubleheader sweep on Thursday, winning both games by 15-0 scores. The first game went four innings, the nightcap went three innings. Natalie Belanger pitched two perfect games, not allowing a baserunner all afternoon. She had 19 strikeouts altogether. Kirsten Goodacre was 6-for-6 at the plate with four runs batted in, including a three-run homer. Cecilia Pilon had four hits in the doubleheader while Jaden Schwartz had a triple and three RBI in the nightcap. The Rockets host Negaunee on Monday.
The Rapid River High School girls softball team opened the season Tuesday with two wins over Superior Central, 14-7 and 14-4. The games were played two days early due to the pending winter storm. Click the above headline for details. (Rapid River team photo)
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team pounded the ball inside and had four players score in double figures to beat the Rapid River Rockets, 72-53, Friday night in Rapid River. Click the above headline to read details, see photos, video clips.
The Rapid River High School boys basketball team led from start to finish Monday night, rolling past the North Central Jets, 68-54, in Rapid River. The Rockets avenged an earlier loss to the Jets. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Rapid River High School basketball team held off the Forest Park Trojans, 59-50, Thursday night in Rapid River. Tyler Sundling had 17 points to lead the Rockets. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and listen to interviews.
The Rapid River Rockets won the MHSAA Eight-Player Division Two state championship on Saturday, beating Onekama, 30-18, at the Superior Dome. The Rockets won their first football championship after making the state finals on two other occasions. Click the above headline to read the details, courtesy of the MSAA. (MHSAA photo)
The high school football post-season is winding down across Michigan. Click the above headline to see the scoreboard.
The Rapid River High School football team advanced to the MHSAA Eight-Man Division Two state championship game Friday night with a 36-30 win over the Cedarville Trojans in snowy Rapid River. Tyler Sundling had the game-clinching interception with 45 seconds left. Click the above headline for details and to hear post-game interviews.
The Rapid River Rockets scored on a trick play with 1:11 left in the fourth quarter and beat the Forest Park Trojans, 40-34, in a thrilling Eight-Man regional championship game on Friday. Click the above headline to read details and listen to post-game interviews.
The Forest Park Trojans and Rapid River Rockets pulled off playoff surprises Friday night as the post-season began. The Trojans stunned top-seeded North Central, 36-24, while the Rockets turned back the favored Engadine Eagles, 20-18, in Engadine. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos from the Trojans-Jets game.
The Rapid River Rockets raced to a 30-0 lead and cruised past the Carney-Nadeau Wolves, 60-14, in high school football action Friday night. The Wolves had just twelve players for the game. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
Noah Gorzinski's 75-yard kickoff return snapped a late tie, then the North Central Jets made a key defensive stop to beat the Rapid River Rockets, 26-20, Thursday night in Powers. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association is out with its All-State Teams for the 2018 season. Escanaba pitcher Gabi Salo (pictured) and second baseman Claire McInerney were both named to the Division Two First Team. In Division Four, Rapid River catcher Richelle Vandeville and first baseman Lexi Trombley were both First Team selections. The Upper Peninsula All-Star games are set for next Wednesday in Norway.
The Rapid River High School softball team won a Division Four district championship on Friday, beating Stephenson 17-0 and Norway 7-2 at Norway's Marion Park. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Rapid River High School softball team improved to 27-8 on the season with a doubleheader sweep on Friday in Sault Ste. Marie. Click the above headline for details.
The Rapid River High School softball team won three games on Saturday before losing in the championship game of the Tawas Invitational in Lower Michigan. The tournament was played under rainy conditions. Click the above headline to read details.
The Rapid River High School softball team swept both ends of a doubleheader Monday from the Munising Mustangs, 7-1 and 18-1, getting a bit of revenge for the upset loss the Rockets suffered to the Mustangs in last year's districts. Click the above headline for details.
The Rapid River High School softball team came from behind to beat the Negaunee Miners, 6-3, in the final game of the Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament on Saturday. The Rockets trailed, 3-2, with one out in the seventh inning, when Richelle Vandeville launched a three-run homer. Natalie Belanger later added an RBI single. Brittany Schwartz pitched a scoreless seventh inning. Rapid River also beat Kingsford, 8-1, Saturday.
The Rapid River High School softball team swept both ends of a doubleheader from the Gladstone Braves on Tuesday, 11-1 and 6-4, marking the first time in program history that the Rockets have turned that trick. Click the above headline to read details, listen to interviews, and see photos and videos taken by Mike Dagenais and Bri Winling.
The Rapid River High School softball team swept Bark River-Harris in a doubleheader on Thursday, 8-0 and 12-2. Natalie Belanger threw a perfect game in the opener with 19 strikeouts. She also pitched the second game. Click the above headline for details.
Freshman Natalie Belanger kept up her torrid hitting with a home run, single, and five doubles, and she pitched two scoreless innings Wednesday as Rapid River swept Manistique, 11-0, and 23-0, in Rapid River. Click the above headline to see photos, videos.
The Rapid River High School softball team swept a doubleheader from the Hancock Bulldogs, 11-1 and 13-3, under cold, sunny, and blustery conditions Friday afternoon in Rapid River. Click the above headline for photos and video highlights from the opener.
The Upper Peninsula boys high school basketball post-season has wrapped up. Click the above headline to see schedules and scores for U.P. teams.
The 2018 Upper Peninsula high school girls basketball post-season has come to an end. Click the above headline to see the of the season's results.
The Rapid River High School boys basketball team came from behind several times Monday night against the undefeated Dollar Bay Blue Bolts, but lost in the closing seconds, 63-60, in the Class D regional semifinals in Negaunee. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association had its Hall of Fame banquet Friday night in East Lansing. The longtime coach of Maple City Glen Lake, Gary Galla (pictured), was inducted into the Hall of Fame. The Sault Ste. Marie High School team got the state's community service award, and RRN's Jack Hall was given the statewide "Friend of Softball" award. Click the above headline to see photos, and 2018's pre-season rankings.
The Rapid River High School boys basketball team won its third straight game Monday night, beating the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 47-33, in Harris. The Rockets got 16 points from Logan Hardwick. Click the above headline to read more details.
