The Negaunee High School football team won its home opener Friday night, beating the Gladstone Braves, 42-6, in a non-conference game at Miners Stadium. It was an emotional night for Negaunee quarterback Kyle Waterman, who played for the first time in a game on his home field after suffering a knee injury early in the 2025 season. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Junior Little League baseball team from Illinois that defeated the Negaunee All-Stars (age 13-14) at the Central Regional Tournament last weekend in Midland has been declared ineligible, and has been booted out of the Junior League World Series. That as the World Series is set to start in just hours. Late Thursday night, Little League disqualified the Illinois team, and awarded the Central Region's World Series spot to the runner-up from Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details.
The long pl;ayoff run ended for the Negaunee Junior Boys Little League (age 13-14) All-Star baseball team on Sunday with a 13-0 loss to the Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, All-Stars at Plymouth Park in downstate Midland. Click the above headline for details, interviews, and video clips.
Not much went right for the Negaunee Junior Little League All-Star baseball team on Saturday as they lost to the Illinois State Champions from Elmhurst-River Forest, 11-0, in the Central Regional Tournament winner's bracket final. Click the above headline for details, and videos taken by Cooper Dost.
The Negaunee Junior Little League All-Stars (age 13-14) used strong defense and added just enough offense to pull out another nailbiter at the Central Regional tournament in Midland on Friday afternoon. Negaunee rallied from a 2-0 deficit midway through the game to battle for a 5-4 win over the Tri-Cities Little League out of Kearney, Nebraska. The future Miners are now just two wins away from a trip to the Junior Baseball World Series. Click the above headline for details, photos, interviews, video clips.
The Negaunee Junior Little League All-Star (age 13-14) baseball team scored seven runs in the first inning and then had to hang on at the end, beating the Indiana State Champions from Wabash Little League, 8-6, at Plymouth Park. Click the above headline for details, interviews, photos, and video highlights.
The Negaunee Junior Little League (age 13-14) All-Star baseball team has won the state championship. The boys pulled out a 4-3 win over Emmett on Monday in the semifinals at the historic Felch Field, and then beat Southern Grand Rapids, 6-2, in the championship game. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Kingsford Greens American Legion Baseball team will have the chance to defend the state championship it won last summer. The Greens blew past the Negaunee Senior Legion team, 12-1 and 9-2, to win the Upper Peninsula Zone Five championship Friday at Iron Town Field. The result sends the Greens to the Class A state tournament next week in downstate Adrian. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee Junior Little League All-Stars (age 13-14) are headed to another state tournament, and this time, they won't have to take a long trip below the Mackinac Bridge to do it. The group of boys, many of whom have played on other Little League teams that have had to compete downstate, beat Petoskey in a winner-take-all third sectional game on Saturday, 5-4, to advance to the state tournament in Felch. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee Senior Legion Baseball team rallied from a 4-0 deficit Wednesday night to beat the Escanaba Cubs, 10-4, at Al Ness Field. Both teams used multiple pitchers as they prepare to compete in tournaments this weekend. Click the above headline for details, videos, and interviews.
The annual Gregg Johnson Memorial American Legion Baseball tournament wrapped up pool play late Saturday night after ten more games were played in Escanaba and in Wells Township. The tournament saw 20 pool play games since Friday morning, and the ten teams were reduced to four semifinalists for Sunday. The Kingsford Greens will join three Wisconsin teams in the final four. Click the above headline for details.
A ten-team American Legion Baseball tournament got under way Friday in Delta County. The Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament, which has been held every year for more than three decades, saw five games on the Escanaba Al Ness Field and five games on the Bay College field in Wells. Click the above headline for scores, details, and for Saturday's schedule and radio schedule.
The Escanaba High School baseball team was two outs away from having its season end on Friday, but sophomore Bryce Bichler came through with a bases-loaded double to give the Eskymos a dramatic 5-4 win over the Kingsford Flivvers in the Division Two district final. The Eskymos also rallied to beat Negaunee in the semifinals, 3-2. Click the above headline for details. (Nate Zaremba photo)
The Escanaba High School softball team had its season come to a premature end on Friday with a 2-0 loss to the Negaunee Miners in the MHSAA Division Two district semifinals at Kingsford's Lodal Park. Alyse Robar threw a complete-game three-hitter with ten strikeouts and only one walk for the Miners. Click the above headline for details and to hear comments from Eskymo Manager Andy Fields.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Negaunee Miners shivvered through two sloppy baseball games Wednesday night in Negaunee, and each team ended up with something to smile about....and something to complain about. The Eskymos literally gave away the first game, 6-5, by committing seven errors, but bounced back to easily win the nightcap, 10-0. Click the above headline for details, interviews, photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team continued its weeklong homestand on Thursday with two more wins, beating the Negaunee Miners in both ends of a doubleheader, 10-0 and 12-3, at Al Ness Field. Combined with a road win at Marinette on Monday, the Eskymos swept all five games the past four days to improve their season record to 6-3. Negaunee fell to 4-3. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Negaunee Miners split a doubleheader Thursday night at Lemmerand Park, with the Miners winning the first game, 3-2, and the Eskymos bouncing back to take the nightcap, 10-5. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on Wednesday releeasesd its All-U.P. girls basketball teams. A group of 18 reporters from across the entire U.P. met last week in Marquette to make the selections. Gladstone Braves senior Lillie Johnson was chosen as Miuss Basketball, along with being the Division 1-3 Player of the Year and a member of the all-class Dream Team. Ishpeming senior Janessa Eagle was named the Division Four Player of the Year. Click the above headine for all of the details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on Friday releeasesd its All-U.P. boys basketball teams. A group of 18 reporters from across the entire U.P. met earlier in the week in Marquette to make the selections. Westwood Patriots senior Ethan Marta was chosen as Mr. Basketball, along with being the Division 1-3 Player of the Year and member of the all-class Dream Team. Dollar Bay senior Liam Tourtillott was named the Division Four Player of the Year. Click the above headline to see all of the winners. (MHSAA Photo)
The Negaunee Iron Range 12U boys Tier II AA hockey team won a state championship on Sunday, wrapping up a perfect weekend of hockey. The boys beat Orchard Lake, 4-1, in the semifinals, and then took down the Detroit Bulldogs, 7-4, in the championship game. Negaunee outshot Detroit, 28-16, in the championship victory. The games were played at the Centre Ice Arena in Traverse City. Negaunee also won all of its pool play contests.
Eleven Upper Peninsula wrestlers reached the podium Saturday night after the MHSAA Individual Wrestling state finals wrapped up at Detroit's Ford Field. There were 22 wrestlers from across the UP competing at Ford Field. The top eight wrestlers in every weight class in the five divisions reach the winner's podium. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team rolled to a 60-18 win over the Negaunee Miners in the MHSAA Division Three regional semifinal Thursday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association high school hockey regional tournaments get started this week. All ten Upper Peninsula teams are in Division Three, broken down into two regioanals. Click the above headline for the schedules.
The Negaunee High School wrestling team won a Division Three district championship Wednesday night at Kingsford High School, marking just the second time in school history and the first time since 1991. The Miners eeked out a 42-41 win over the host Flivvers, and after Menominee took down Westwood, 39-30, in the other semifinal, Negaunee faced Menominee in the championship. The Miners beat the Maroons, 60-24, to advance to the MHSAA Team Regionals on Feb. 18 in Gladstone. Before that, the individual district tournament will be held this Saturday at Grayling High School. (Negaunee High School Photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team won both of its home games this weekend, stretching its winning streak to four games heading toward the end of the 2025 portion of the schedule. The Eskymos beat the Houghton Gremlins, 6-2, Saturday night, after shutting down the Negaunee Miners, 7-0, on Friday. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights. (Lizzie Taylor photo)
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 wild summer-long ride for the Negaunee Major Little League All-Star baseball team came to an end on Monday as the UP boys lost to Lexington, Kentucky, 6-1, in an elimination game in suburban Indianapolis. The loss ended the Great Lakes Regional Tournament run for Negaunee, after a five-week odyssey that started with district tournament blowouts in Calumet, and improbable six-game run at the state tournament in Saginaw that included a pair of nailbiters, and then the trip to the Hoosier state for the first time in program history.
