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 North Central High School wrestling team ran into a buzzsaw on Friday in a MHSAA Division Four state quarterfinal match at the Wings Events Center in Kalamazoo. The Jets lost to the top-ranked and multi-state-champion Hudson Tigers, 84-0, ending the best season in the program's short three-year history. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School wrestling team won its first-ever MHSAA Division Four regional championship Wednesday night, beating Indian River Inland Lakes, 42-39, in the semifinals, and then knocking off the St. Ignace Saints in the championship, 43-32. St. Ignace defeated Gwinn, 39-36, in the other semifinal. Click the above headline for photos and to hear interviews with Myles Nehring, Cooper Raab, and Coach John Raab.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association team regionals are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday night, with the individual regionals set for Saturday. Click the above headline for the schedules.
The high school wrestling post-season continued on Saturday with the MHSAA individual district tournaments being held across the state. Fourteen Division Four schools from across the Upper Peninsula and northern lower peninsula converged on the Manistique High School for the individual districts. Click the above headline to see the results.
The North Central High School wrestling team won a Division Four district championship Wednesday night at Munising High School, beating the Munising Mustangs, 66-18, and the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 40-33. The Jets advance to the MHSAA Team Regionals on Feb. 18 at Indian River Inland Lakes. Before that, the individual district tournament will be held this Saturday at Manistique High School. (North Central High School Photo)
The North Central High School boys basketball team had four players score in double figures Monday night, posting an easy 64-47 win over a young Bark River-Harris Broncos team. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on Wednesday released its All-U.P. football awards for the Eight-Man divisions. A group of 21 reporters from across the Upper Peninsula spent several hours during a meeting at Northern Michigan University to come up with this list. Click the above headline to see the award winners.
The North Central High School football team opened defense of its threepeat state championship on Saturday with a dominating 54-20 win over the previously-undefeated Posen Vikings in Lower Michigan. Click the above headline for details, videos, photos, interveiws.
They didn't do it the easy way, but the Norway Knights football team finally slay the dragon Thursday night in a rivalry match-up with the North Central Jets. Norway fell behind, 14-0, but rallied to win, 32-26. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The 2023 North Central High School football team is looking to make a name for itself after the previous three teams won state championships. The Jets lost 13 players to graduation, so these guys are hoping to keep the tradition going. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team beat the North Central Jets, 10-0, in a non-conference game Monday night at Al Ness Field. The win was Escanaba's fourth straight, and it allowwd the Eskymos to play a lot of younger players. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School baseball team won its home opener in “grand” style on Monday as the Braves routed the North Central Jets, 20-0, in a game shortened to three-and-a-half innings by the mercy rule. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Iron Mountain High School boys basketball team bounced back from last week's loss to Westwood by beating the North Central Jets, 64-58, Monday night in Iron Mountain. Click the thumbnails to see photos and videos, and to hear post-game interviews.
The North Central High School boys basketball team wrapped up a perfect 2-0 opening week by dominating the Rapid River Rockets, 63-36, Thursday night in Powers. Hunter Robinson led the Jets with 20 points, countering the 20 put up by Rockets center Kodey Goldi. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The North Central Jets completed a remarkable "three-peat" on Saturday with yet another dominating performance in the MHSAA Division Two Eight Man state championsip game, racing to a 35-0 lead and rolling over the Mendon Hornets, 66-26, at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline for details, and to listen to the radio replay of the game.
The North Central High School football team faced its first challenge of the season on Saturday, but pulled away from the Marion Eagles, 36-12. THe win moves the Jets into the state championship game next Saturday at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline for details, and to listen to a replay of the game and post-game comments. (Photo Michelle Gorzinski)
The North Central High School football team began its quest for a third straight state championship Friday night with a 54-6 win over the Stephenson Eagles in Powers. Click the above headline for details, photos and videos, and post-game interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association released its weekly poll Tuesday morning, and it shows no change from the past week's ballot, with Negaunee and North Central holding down top spots entering the regular season's final weekend. Gladstone and Munising are second in the respective polls. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association is out with its weekly football poll Tuesday morning. Click the above headline to read the rankings.
The weekly Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association football poll was released Tuesday morning, and there's a new top-ranked eleven-man team: the Negaunee Miners. The North Central Jets are still tops in Eight-man. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves remain the top-ranked 11-man football team in the Upper Peninsula, and the North Central Jets are a unanimous choice as the top 8-man team. That's according to the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association poll, released Tuesday morning by the organization. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School football team has begun its second week of practice with one goal in mind: a third straight MHSAA state championship. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and interviews from the practice.
The Menominee Red Wave American Legion baseball team salvaged the final game of the Firecracker Tournament in Marinette, beating the Green Bay Preble Hornets, 1-0, in nine innings, on Sunday. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Norway High School baseball team took both ends of a doubleheader from the North Central Jets, 5-0 and 10-0, Monday evening at Marion Park. The Knights' pitchers allowed only one total base hit in the twinbill. Click the above headline for details.
The Menominee High School boys basketball team captured its first regional championship since 2008 Wednesday night by beating Benzie Central, 60-56, in double overtime. At the same time, Escanaba and North Central lost their title games. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula is home to three high school wrestling state champions, as well as two state runners-up. Drew Allgeyer of Bark River-Harris, and Parker Stroud and Shawn McGuire of Iron Mountain, all won titles Saturday at Ford Field in Detroit. BR-H’s Dillon Raab and Iron Mountain’s Tyler Winch were runners-up. Click the above headline for details
The MHSAA individual wrestling state finals began on Friday at Ford Field in Detroit, and when the dust settled, five U.P. boys advanced to the championship round of their brackets. And two of them will face each other for the state title. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School wrestling dominated in the lower weight classes and beat a shorthanded Bark River-Harris Broncos team, 48-33, to wrap up a triangular meet in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team eeked out a 45-36 win over the Marinette Marines in a dual meet Wednesday night in Escanaba. It was part of a triangular with the host Eskymos. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
