The Escanaba High School wrestling team hosted its only home match of the season Tuesday night, and picked up victories over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers and Marquette Redmen in a quad meet. Iron Mountain topped Kingsford, while the Flivvers beat Marquette in the other matches. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and interviews.
The No.18 ranked Northern Michigan women's wrestling team competed at Albion College on Sunday, seeing three individual victories and finishing in third place of 13 competing teams. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestler Benji Peak topped the podium at the Senior Open this weekend in Las Vegas. The NMU squad had five other athletes make podium finishes as well. 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 Gladstone Braves and Iron Mountain Mountaineers both lost in the MHSAA Team State Finals on Friday in Kalamazoo. The Braves lost to Clinton in Division Three, 51-24, while the Mountaineers fell to New Lothrop in Division Four, 36-35. Click the above headline for details. (Lewis Berry photo)
The Gladstone Braves won their first title since 2016 by beating Cheboygan, 80-0, in the semifinals before taking a nailbiter from the Kinglsey Stags, 46-34, in the championship. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
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.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team opened a triangular meet Wednesday night with a 48-34 win over the Marinette Marines from Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details, and for photos and video highlights from those seven matches.
The Bark River-Harris wrestling team won twice at a quad meet on their home mat Thursday, beating Munising, 60-24, and Kingsford 59-24. Kingsford defeated Gwinn 39-0 and Munising defeated Gwinn 42-6 in the other matches. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Gladstone Braves won the Upper Peninsula wrestling championship on Saturday, taking six individual first place finishes in outdistancing second place Iron Mountain, 212-175. Escanaba was third with 155 points, and Bark River-Harris was fourth with 144. Click the above headline to see the results.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team won a pair of dual meets Thursday night as they prepared for this Saturday's Upper Peninsula Finals. Escanaba beat Negaunee, 46-30, and then turned back Westwood, 60-12. Click the above headline to see photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team won a pair of matches from their Delta County rivals Thursday night, turning back Bark River-Harris, 51-26, and Escanaba, 46-36. The Broncos topped Escanaba in the other triangular match, 50-27. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and player/coach interviews.
The Iron Mountain Mountaineers had five individual champions and edged the Escanaba Eskymos to win the annual Elks Wrestling Invitational on Saturday in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, video clips.
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestlers David Stepanian and Benji Peak placed second at the Senior World Team Trials this weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska. Click the above headline for details. (NMU-NTS photo)
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestlers Benji Peak, Alston Nutter and David Stepanian topped the podium at the U23 Nationals yesterday in Lincoln, Nebraska. All three earned a spot on USA Wrestling's U23 World Team and will compete in Belgrade, Serbia this November. Click the above headline for details.
The addition of a girls division to the Individual Wrestling Tournament series and approval of a common start date for all Fall sports highlighted actions taken by the Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association during its annual Spring Meeting. Click the above headline for details.
The 2021 high school wrestling season came to an end Saturday with the MHSAA Division Four state individual finals in Grand Rapids. The Bark River-Harris Broncos had five wrestlers reach the podium, with Iron Mountain placing three and Rudyard two. Click the above headline for all of Saturday's results. (BR-H Wrestling photo; Dennis Stachewicz)
The Bark River-Harris High School wrestling team lost to state power New Lothrop on Tuesday in the MHSAA Division Four state quarterfinals, 54-20 in Kalamazoo. It was the team's first-ever trip to the state finals. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association individual regional tournaments were held on Saturday across the state. The top four boys in each weight class advance to the state indivudal finals in downstate Kalamazoo. In all, 31 boys qualified for states, led by sebem from Bark River-Harris. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School wrestling team did not need the Luck of the Irish on St. Patrick's Day Wednesday as the Eskymos rolled past Marquette, 64-11, to win a Division Two district title. Click the above headline for details, photos, interviews, videos.
The Bark River-Harris High School wrestling team won three more matches Monday night, highlighted by senior Tyler Racicot's 100th career match victory. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
You can get rid of all of those returnable cans and bottles and help the Manistique High School wrestling team at the same time. You can drop them off at the Gonzalez home at 1019 Deer Street, and when stores start accepting returnables again, the team will return them and the money will be used to help to buy new gear for next season. You can also call 286-3978, and they'll pick up the returnables.
NMU-National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestler Spencer Woods had qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials, scheduled for this upcoming weekend. With the competition canceled, the Summer Olympics postponed until 2021, and his dream deferred, he has returned to his home state of Alaska. Woods is on self-quarantine, living in an Arctic oven tent with a wood stove until he can join his parents in their village. (NMU Photo Sandy Slater)
The Michigan Wrestling Association is praising the work of the best high school wrestling teams and individuals...off the mat. The Escanaba Eskymos were recognized for having the ninth-best team grade point average in the state in Division Two. The Westwood Patriots and five individuals were also honored. Click the above headline to read more.
Eight Upper Peninsula High School wrestlers are being honored for their success on the mat this winter. The Michigan Wrestling Association lists its All-State teams by grade level and by division. Click the above headline to read about the Yoopers and see videos.
Gladstone High School wrestlers Cole Hansen and Michael Brazeau finished strong on Saturday at the MHSAA Individual Wrestling state finals at Detroit's Ford Field. They both ran the table in their respective weight classes to finish third overall. Click the above headline to read more details. (Gladstone Braves Athletics photo)
Twenty-four Upper Peninsula high school wrestlers qualified for the MHSAA State Finals at Detroit’s Ford Field on Saturday by placing in the top four at their individual regional tournaments downstate. Seven of them won championships. Click the above headline to see who qualified. (Pictured: Gladstone's Michael Brazeau)
The Bark River-Harris High School wrestling team won its first-ever MHSAA Division Four district championship Thursday night in Iron Mountain. The Broncos beat Iron Mountain in the final, 63-10. Click the above headline for details.
