The Escanaba High School girls basketball team improved to 12-0 on the season with a 62-46 win over the Menominee Maroons Monday night. The Eskymos led by as many as 27 points in the game. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The three Delta County high school wrestling teams got together for a triangular Thursday night in Bark River. The Gladstone Braves easily won the event, beating Escanaba, 70-12, and topping Bark River-Harris, 60-18. The Broncos beat the Eskymos in the other match, 42-37. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Escanaba High School girls basketball team had to grind one out Tuesday night, but survived against the Marquette Redettes, 48-43, at the Escanaba High School Gym. The Eskymo offense never could get into a rhythm, but did just enough to improve to 9-0 on the season. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School boys basketball team shook off a sluggish first half and beat the Westwood Patriots, 63-50, Tuesday night in Gladstone. The Braves won back-to-back games for te first time this season. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team outscored Bark River-Harris, 22-5, in the second quarter and cruised to a 80-47 win over the Broncos Monday night. The Eskymos had four players score in double figures. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Iron Mountain High School boys basketball team raced to a 36-9 halftime lead and coasted to a 55-37 win over the Gladstone Braves Tuesday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Negaunee High School boys basketball team built a 20-point first quarter lead and Gavin Saunders scored 33 points, leading to a 74-58 win over the Escanaba Eskymos Monday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for pictures, videos, post-game interviews.
The Gladstone High School wrestling team took the long nine-hour trip downstate on Friday, and came home with a second place trophy from the 16-team invitational hosted by Montague High School. Click the above headline for details and see photos tajen by Christe Terrien.
The Manistique High School boys basketball team battled for the entire 32 minutes with the Mackinaw City Comets on Friday, and that's what it took as the Emeralds posted a nailbiting 51-49 win to take the Manistique Holiday Tournament championship. Click the above headline for details.
The Brimley High School boys basketball team returned to the Eastern U.P. Thursday night with some hardware. The Bays defeated the Milwaukee School of Excellence, 72-48, in the championship game of the Carney-Nadeau Holiday Tournament. The Bays also beat Stephenson on Wednesday, 59-30. In the third place game Thursday, Stephenson topped Carney-Nadeau, 52-49, as Spencer Coldren scored 23 points for the Eagles.
The Escanaba High School hockey team scored early and often, and overwhelmed the Dexter Dreadnaughts, 9-0, Wednesday afternoon , in the final game of the Alpena Holiday Showcase. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and to hear player interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team could not get a puck past Alpena senior goaltender Aidan Schultz Tuesday night and the Eskymos fell to the seventh-ranked Wildcats, 5-0. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team braved the cold, wind, and snow outside to host its annual Alumni Night Friday at the Wells Sports Complex. There were two 60-minute long games: one with mostly older Esky graduates, and the other with mostly recent grads. Click the above headline to see photos and videos from both games.
The Calumet High School hockey team beat the Hancock Bulldogs, 4-2, Thursday night at the Colosseum, despite being outshot 35-16. The team started the night by honoring legendary coach Jim Crawford, who died Tuesday night. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School girls basketball team hung tough for the second straight game, but could not make the big shots down the stretch and fell to the Houghton Gremlins, 47-40, Tuesday night in Gladstone. The close loss followed a 51-48 loss to Marquette on Monday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
Kodey Goldi fought off early foul trouble and scored a career high 42 to lead the Rapid River Rockets to a 80-60 win over the previously-undefeated Big Bay deNoc Black Bears Monday night. Steven Holmes scored 32 points in a losing effort for Big Bay. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and post-game interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team earned a 4-2 win over the Hancock Bulldogs at the Houghton County Arena Friday night, with four different goal scorers and 27 saves from freshman goaltdender Cully Hayes. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls basketball team went on a 19-0 run to break open a close game to defeat the Bark River-Harris Broncos, 66-54, Thursday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
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 Escanaba High School hockey team had to fight past a hot goaltender to post a 5-2 win over Rochester United Friday night at the Wells Sports Complex. Freshman Nolan Bink scored three goals for a hat trick, and fellow ninth grader Graham Johnson lit the lamp. Click the above headline for photos, videos, and 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 Escanaba High School hockey team scored six straight goals after a scoreless 25 minutes of play, and beat the Negaunee Miners, 6-0, Tuesday night, in a game that more resembled a football game than a hockey game. Three different Eskymos scored two goals apiece in the win. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Escanaba High School hockey team bounced back from Tuesday night's rough performance against Marquette by rolling past the Painesdale-Jeffers Jets, 9-4, Friday night at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline to read game details.
The Marquette Redmen scored seven goals in the first period, and after the Escanaba Eskymos scored three times, regained momentum in the third period to post an 11-3 win Tuesday night at the Wells Sports Complex. The game ended on the mercy rule with 3:49 to play. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and for interviews.
The Negaunee Miners football team battled Grand Rapids West Catholic to a 14-14 draw in the third quarter before the Falcons exploded to beat the Miners, 59-14, in the Division Six state championship game on Friday. Click the above heaadline for details.
The 2022 Upper Peninsula high school football playoffs have come to an end. Click the above headline for all of the scores.
Sawyer LaMarch scored the game-winning goal in the third period, and his cousin, Brayden Martineau, had the other two goals as the Escanaba Eskymos erased a 2-0 deficit to edge the Kingsford Flivvers, 3-2, Tuesday nigt in Iron Mountain. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights, and player/coach radio interveiws.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association has released its Eight Man All-U.P. teams. The voting was done last week by a panel of 16 reporters from around the U.P. at a meeting in Marquette, before the North Central Jets won the state championship.
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 Negaunee High School football team pulled out a gutsy 13-12 victory over Reed City in the MHSAA Division Six state semifinals Saturday afternoon in Gaylord. The Miners advance to the state championship game at Detroit's Ford Field. Click the above headline for details.
