The Forest Park High School volleyball team had its great season come to an end on Thursday with a 3-2 loss to the Fowler Eagles in the MHSAA Division Four state semifinal match at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek. Click the above headline for details. (Photo courtesy of MHSAA)
The Northern Michigan University volleyball team hosted the Wisconsin-Parkside Rangers in the opening round of the GLIAC Tournament on Wednesday night, falling 3-1 to end the season with a 15-14 record. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of NMU Sports Information.
The 2025 Michigan Tech volleyball season came to an end with a 3-0 loss at Wayne State in the quarterfinal round of the GLIAC Tournament on Wednesday. The Warriors advanced 25-21, 26-24, and 25-19. Tech finished with a 12-16 record. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of Michigan Tech Athletics.
The MCCAA and Region 12 released the 2025 postseason volleyball awards. Bay College had three student-athletes make the Northern Conference Second Team and one on the Northern Conference Honorable Mention Team. Click the above headline for details, and to hear RRN's interview with Norse Coach Dan Porath.
Four Upper Peninsula high school volleyball teams won regional semifinal matches on Tuesday to stay alive in the MHSAA tournaments: Forest Park, Ishpeming, Newberry, and Painesdale-Jeffers. Click the above headline for details.
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 Manistique High School volleyball team Division Three district championship Thursday night, but the Emeralds did it the hard way. The girls beat the Gwinn Model Towners, 3 sets to 2, in a nailbiter that took some two hours to play. Click the above headline for more details.
The Norway High School volleyball team won a district championship Thursday night, beating the North Dickinson Nordics in a four-set match. The Nordics won the first set, 25-21, before the Knights took the next three. Click the above headline for details.
The Forest Park Trojans volleyball team cruised to a district championship Thursday night, with an eye on bigger and better things in the next two weeks. The Trojans continued their domination of UP opponents, brushing away the Wakefield-Marenisco Cardinals in straight sets. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse women's volleyball team had its season come to an end Wednesday night with a heartbreaking loss in the NJCAA Region 12 Great Lakes Tournament. The Norse had a 2-sets-to-1 lead over the Kellogg Community College Bruins, but lost the fourth set in overtime, and lost the deciding fifth set, 15-13. Click the above headline for details.
The MHSAA girls volleyball district tournaments continued Wednesday night with semifinal matches across the Upper Peninsula. Kingsford, West Iron County, and North Dickinson all won marathon, come-from-behind five-set matches. Others had a much easier time. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules. (Photo/Casey Ford credit: Munising Mustangs won, 3-0 over Rapid River)
The Escanaba High School volleyball team opened the MHSAA Division Two district tournament Monday night with a 3-0 win over the Gladstone Braves. The scores were 25-20, 25-12, and 27-25. The Eskymos will travel to Negaunee for the second round on Wednesday. Click the above headline to see details, photos, and videos.
The Bay College Norse volleyball team closed the regular season in Escanaba Wednesday night with the annual Pink Out Night for breast cancer awareness. The Norse won the match over the Alpena Community College Lumberjacks, 25-21, 26-28, 25-21. and 25-21. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
In yet another instant classic between U.P. rivals Northern Michigan and Michigan Tech, the Wildcats outlasted the Huskies in a five-set thriller, 23-25, 25-22, 26-24, 14-25, 20-18, behind a career performance from senior McKenzie Gruner, who hammered down 24 kills and carried NMU to victory in front of an electric Vandament Arena crowd on Tuesday night. Click the above headline for details. (NMU story, photo)
After a five-set thriller and emotional win on Friday night, the Northern Michigan volleyball team found itself in another heart-stopper on Saturday, this time on the wrong end of it, falling to the Wayne State Warriors 23-25, 25-21, 25-21, 9-25, and 15-17 in front of a loud Vandament Arena crowd. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Story)
It was an exciting return to Vandament Arena on Friday evening for the Northern Michigan volleyball team, as the Wildcats outlasted the Grand Valley State Lakers in a five-set thriller, 25-23, 26-24, 17-25, 23-25, and 15-12. (NMU story, photo)
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 Forest Park Trojans volleyball team took on the best the Upper Peninsula had to offer, on Saturday, and stayed undfeated against U.P. teams by beating the Kingsford Flivvers, Marquette Sentinels, and Calumet Copper Kings in the “Clash of the Divisions” tournament hosted by Kingsford High School.
The Northern Michigan volleyball team ended the Midwest Region Crossover in dominant fashion, earning a sweep over the Ashland Eagles 25-19, 25-21, and 25-13, with the match only lasting just over an hour in total time. Northern was clicking in all facets of the game. Leading the efforts was Madison York, who recorded a career-high 15 kills on a .481 attack percentage. (NMU Sports Information)
The Northern Michigan volleyball team faced tough competition at the Midwest Region Crossover on Friday, falling to both Findlay of the G-MAC and Quincy of the GLVC in straight sets. The Wildcats dropped their opener to Findlay in three (20-25, 17-25, 14-25) before returning to the court later in the day and falling to Quincy (19-25, 12-25, 22-25). Story, photo courtesy of NMU Sports Information
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.
Facing a 9-5 deficit in the fifth set in a hostile environment, the Northern Michigan volleyball team stormed back with a 10-2 run to secure a thrilling come-from-behind nonconference victory over rival Michigan Tech on Thursday night at the SDC Gymnasium. (NMU Story, Photo),
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.
The Northern Michigan volleyball team picked up its third straight victory, and first on the road this season, by outlasting Saginaw Valley State in a five-set battle on Friday night. The Wildcats topped the Cardinals 25-19, 13-25, 25-18, 25-27, and 15-9 to improve to 3-2 in GLIAC play and 4-9 overall. (NMU Sports Information story, photo)
It was quite the home opener for the Northern Michigan volleyball team on Friday night, as the Wildcats (2-9, 1-2) rallied to hand the Parkside Rangers (9-1, 2-1) their first loss of the season, 26-24, 17-25, 13-25, 25-21, 15-7.
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.
Despite a tightly contested match throughout, the Northern Michigan volleyball team fell to the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs on Saturday afternoon in straight sets, 22-25, 22-25, and 23-25. It was a highlight match for freshman Kaylie McIntosh, as she recorded 15 kills to lead all players. Her seven kills in the opening set were the most for a Wildcat in a single set so far this season. On the service line, Taylor Smaka impressed with five aces, tied for the second-most by a Wildcat over the last two seasons.
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 Rapid River High School volleyball team won its second match of the season Thursday night, outlasting the rival Mid Peninsula Wolverines, 3-2, in a marathon match at Mid Pen High School. The scores were 23-25, 25-20, 26-24, 21-25, 15-12. The Rockets program did not win a match in 2022, 2023, or 2024.
