The Bay College Norse volleyball team stepped out of conference play Monday night to face Upper Peninsula rival Gogebic Community College. The Norse honored their four sophomores on Sophomore Night and then beat the Samsons, 3-1. The scores were 25-15, 25-19, 25-27, 25-19. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College volleyball team kept pace in the MCCAA standings Wednesday night with a 3-1 win over Delta College in Escanaba. The scores were 24-26, 25-18, 25-21, 25-23. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse volleyball team beat the Montcalm College Centurions, 3-1, Wednesay night, to move over the 500 mark in conference play. The scores were 25-22, 25-21, 22-25, and 25-18. Click the headline to read the details, see photos and videos, and hear interviews.
The Escanaba High School Gym was full of spikes and digs on Saturday as the annual Elks Invitational was held on a hot, humid day. Ten teams played four pool matches, and the top four teams advanced to the semifinals. Escanaba defeated Ishpeming, Forest Park defeated Cheboygan, and then Forest Park won the championship over Escanaba, 2-0. Click the above headline for all of the scores, photos, videos.
Bay Cross Country Team travelled to the MCCAA Northern Conference Meet hosted by North Central Michigan College. Bay's Women's Team put two runners in the All-Conference as well as All-Freshman Team while the Men's Team had three runners qualify for All-Conference and one runner as All-Freshman.
A ceremony was held Tuesday night to celebrate the brand new bleachers at the Escanaba football stadium. The Eskymo Fan Club spearheaded the $450,000 project, which stripped out all of the old wooden seats and replaced them with new metal seats. They also put in 156 “stadium seats”.
The Bay College Norse volleyball team found itself in a close battle all night long as they pulled off a 3-2 victory over the Delta College Pioneers Monday night. The Norse took the first two sets by scores of 25-18 and 28-26 before dropping the next two (26-28 and 20-25). They were able to come through in the end with a 15-9 win in the final set.
The fall season is underway for 1,042 student athletes on 76 high schools teams participating in the Michigan State High School Clay Target League programs. The MISHSCTL is a part of the USA Clay Target League, which provides clay target shooting sports as an extracurricular activity to thousands of schools nationwide. There are two Upper Peninsula high school teams with students taking part in these actitivies: Escanaba and Norway High Schools.
The Bay College Norse women's volleyball team split two matches at a triangular meet Saturday in Ironwood, falling to the Rainy River (Minn.) Voyageurs, 3-0 (18-25, 22-25, 23-25) before beating the host Gogebic Community College Samsons in a marathon match, 3-1 (25-11, 25-14, 27-29, 26-24).
The Escanaba High School football team improved to 3-0 on the season with a 27-10 win over the defending conference champion Petoskey Northmen Friday night in Petokey. Senior quarterback Nolan Bink threw three touchdown passes, two of them to Brody Ison and one to Alex Stalboerger. Senior placekicker Graham Johnson kicked a school-record 42-yard field goal in the win.
The Bay College Norse athletic department hosted a high school cross country meet on Saturday for the first time ever, using the Farmhouse course in Flat Rock, the same venue that hosted the MHSAA high school U.P. Finals several times in recent years. Negaunee's girls (pictured) and Gladstone's boys took the team trophies.
The Bay College Norse Volleyball Team (4-3) lost just one set in three matches this weekend, coming out of a Minnesota trip with three wins and riding the high of a four-match win streak. On Friday they swept Anoka-Ramsey Community College (1-5) in three straight sets, before doing the same to their hosts for the evening Century College (0-5). On Saturday they travelled to Inver Grove Heights and defeated Dakota County Technical College (2-3) three sets to one.
The Escanaba High School football team rallied from eleven points down in the final quarter to beat the Kingsford Flivvers, 21-18, Thursday night, at the Escanaba Athletic Field. Brody Ison’s “jump-pass” to Alex Stolboerger for a touchdown put the Eskymos in the lead with three minutes left, and Keagan Braun's interception with 27 seconds left sealed the win.
The Bay College Norse volleyball team opened its season with four matches over the weekend at a tournament in Rockford, Illinois. The Norse won one match and lost the other three.
The Superiorland men’s league championship game was held in the rain Monday night in Escanaba, and the host Mikey D’s Beer Cave team won the championship in six innings, 11-1, over the Channing Railroaders.
As high school sports practices begin, and some of the first contests are played in some sports, the Michigan High School Athletic Association is again ramping up awareness of necessary hot-weather precautions as schools and families prepare for activity. Practices for all Fall 2025 sports – cross country, football, boys soccer, girls tennis, and volleyball began on Monday. The first soccer, tennis, volleyball, and cross cluntry contests are this weekend.
The Escanaba High School football team got the jump on the rest of the Upper Peninsula Monday morning by holding its annual Midnight Madness practice at the Escanaba Athletic Field. The team took advantage of the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s official practice begin-date by having a practice at 12:01 a.m. Monday.
One of the top high school baseball pitchers in the state of Michigan has decided on where to attend college. Escanaba senior Lenny Peacock has committed to attend school and pitch at Western Michigan University.
Bay College Head Softball Coach John Garris has passed away. The college made the announcement on Saturday, saying only that he died "suddenly".
The 78th annual Michigan-Wisconsin Open Tennis Tournament got underway Saturday in Escanaba's Ludington Park. The singles competition was held in several divisions. In the Class A men's competition, Juan Guerra won the title in straight sets (6-3, 6-4), and in Class B, Escanaba native Chris Ogren defeated Aaron Isenhart of Elk Rapids in three sets, taking the third set, 6-4. The competition continues on Sunday with doubles matches, both in Ludington Park and at the Abrahamson Courts.
The Escanaba Cubs first appearance in the American Legion Class AA state tournament in more than a decade came to an end on Friday with a 5-2 loss to Adrian Post 285 at Northwood University in Midland. The Cubs finished the tournament with a 1-2 record, and closed a successful summer season with a 17-9-2 record.
The American Legion Baseball Class Double A state tournament got under way on Thursday under scorching heat at Northwood University in Midland. The Escanaba Cubs beat Big Rapids, 14-2, in their first game, but suffered a power outage in the second game, losing 5-0 to Bay City.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Star softball team (age 8-10) finished pool play undefeated on Sunday with a 4-2 win over Georgetown at the Michigan State Tournament in Cheboygan. The girls will play in the state quarterfinals on Monday.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Stars (age 8-10) won their second straight game in pool play on Saturday at the Michigan State Tournament in Cheboygan. Escanaba held off Bullock Creek Southtown from the Midland area, 5-2, to take a prime undefeated spot in the pool standings.
Amaya Humbert threw a complete-game two hitter, striking out 13 batters, as the Escanaba Minor Girls (age 8-10) opened state tournament play Friday with an impressive 10-0 win over Grosse Pointe in Cheboygan. Humbert was also strong at the plate, cracking a triple and a home run. Isla McCarty also hit a home run for Escanaba, and Livvy Nolde had a triple, single, and stole three bases.
Five Delta County graduating high school softball players played their final high school game on Tuesday in the Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association's All-Star games at Davenport University.
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 Escanaba Minor Little League All-Stars (age 8-10) took the District Ten championship Thursday night with a 2-1 win over Gladstone. There were just three base hits combined between the two teams in a pitcher's duel between Escanaba's Amaya Humbert and Gladstone's Maia Hughes.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion Baseball team won the championship of the Marinette Firecracker Tournament for the first time ever, beating Manitowoc, 5-0, in the title game on Sunday at the Pedersen Ballpark. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion Baseball team scored three runs in the fifth inning and came from behind to beat Watertown, Wis., 5-3, Saturday night, to advance to the championship game of the Firecracker Tournament in Marinette. Click the above headline for details.
