The Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association approved today an adjusted schedule to restart and conclude Fall Tournaments in football, girls volleyball and girls swimming & diving, and also to resume Winter sports after the three-week “pause” in activity ordered by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) scheduled to end Dec. 9. Click the above headline for details.
Escanaba High School senior Bryant Maki committed Tuesday to attending Michigan Tech University and playing football there. The 6-foot-3, 190-pound wide receiver says he received five college offers. Click the above headline to read details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association has suspended its Fall tournaments for girls volleyball, girls swimming & diving and football, and all winter practices and competitions scheduled to begin over the next three weeks. Click the above heqdline for details.
The North Central High School football team played its toughest opponent of the season Friday night, but the result was the same as it has been all season long. The Jets tore past the Cedarville Trojans with 55 first half points in a dominating 55-8 victory to clinch the regional championship. Click the above headline for details.
Escanaba High School senior Tyler Lawson signed his National Letter of Intent Thursday to play baseball at Bryant & Stratton College in suburban Milwaukee. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and video interviews.
The Escanaba High School volleyball team had its season come to an end Thursday night in downstate Houghton Lake, falling to the Cadillac Vikings, 3-0, in the Division Two regional championship match. The scores were 25-21, 25-20, 25-17. Senior Nicole Kamin led the Eskymos with 23 kills.
Escanaba High School multi-sport athlete Nicole Kamin signed her National Letter of Intent on Wednesday to play basketball at Grand Valley State University. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and to listen to interviews.
Gladstone High School multi-sport athlete Megan Crow signed her National Letter of Intent on Wednesday to play basketball at Grand Valley State University. Click the above headline to see photos and videos from the signing event.
The Escanaba High School volleyball team made history Tuesday night, posting ots first regional tournament victory by beating the Kingsley Stags, 3-0, in St. Ignace. The scores were 25-21, 25-17, 25-14. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central Jets High School football team scored 52 points in the first half and rolled past the Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes, 52-8, in a second round playoff game on Saturday in Powers. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Manistique High School volleyball team lost the first set of its district championship match Friday night at Bark River-Harris before roaring back to take the next three sets to win, 3-1. The scores were 19-25, 25-16, 25-18, and 25-19. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos won their second straight volleyball district championship Thursday night, 3-0, over the Houghton Gremlins. The scores were 25-20, 25-17, and 25-16. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos rolled past the Kingsford Flivvers, 3-0, in the MHSAA District tournament opener Tuesday night in Escanaba. The scores were 25-20, 25-17, 25-22. Click the above headline to see details, photos and video highlights.
The North Central Jets football team scored early and often on Saturday as they opened the MHSAA Eight-Man playoffs with a 74-6 win over the Engadine Eagles. Click the above headline for details, photos, interviews, and video highlights.
The COVID-19 shortened football season came to an end on Saturday for the Escanaba Eskymos, as they fell to the Alma Panthers, 28-14, in Lower Michigan. Brandon Frazer had two touchdown passes in a losing effort. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette High School football team opened the MHSAA Playoffs on Saturday with a 38-0 win over Muskegon Reeths Puffer. Click the above headline for details. (Nathan Larsh photo)
The Negaunee High School football team returned from a two-week COVID layoff to beat the Gladstone Braves, 28-14, in the MHSAA Division Six playoffs Friday in Gladstone. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and hear interviews.
Bryce Lundquist threw three touchdown passes to Max Lenaker, including a 76-yarder on fourth down late in the game, to help the Rapid River Rockets come back for a 30-26 win over the Rudyard Bulldogs in the MHSAA playoff opener on Thursday. Click the above headline for details, videos, photos, and interviews.
The Gwinn Model Towners and Bark River-Harris Broncos played a wild volleyball match Tuesday night before Gwinn went home with a 3-2 win. The scores were 31-29, 25-19, 22-25, 20-25, and 15-10. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
This Thursday's playoff football game between the Stephenson Eagles and Pickford Panthers has been cancelled. The Michigan High School Athletic Association has awarded the Panthers, the defending state champions, a forfeit victory.
The Michigan High School Association crowned its six Upper Peninsula champions in cross country on Saturday, as six different schools captured titles at three different sites. Click the above headline to read the details, via MHSAA.
Luke Gorzinski ran for four touchdowns and threw for another as the North Central Jets wrapped up a perfect regular season Saturday with a 50-8 win over the Stephenson Eagles. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Gladstone Braves scored the first two touchdowns of the game Friday night, but the Escanaba Eskymo defense pitched a shutout the rest of the way and Escanaba posted a 20-12 win at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association's Bush Award winners were announced by the association on Wednesday. Two of them have ties to the Upper Peninsula: Mark Mattson and Christian Wilson. Click the above headline to read details.
The Copper Country Christian High School soccer team won the Division Two Upper Peninsula championship over the weekend with a come-from-behind win over Sault Ste. Marie. Click the above headline for details, and to see a few photos courtesy of the school.
The Marquette High School boys soccer team completed a near perfect season over the weekend by beating the Houghton Gremlins, 7-0, for the Division One Upper Peninsula championship. The Iron Mountain and Kingsford teams could not complete because of coronavirus restrictions that shut them down at the last minute. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School football team returned from an unscheduled off week on Saturday with a 34-22 win over a tough Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes team in the Copper Country. Click the above headline to read the details and the game's statistics.
The Gladstone High School football team ran into a buzzsaw in Menominee Friday night, as the Maroons scored 34 p;oints in the first half and rolled to a 41-0 win in a Great Northern Conference game. Click the above headline for photos, interviews.
The Escanaba High School volleyball team pulled out a marathon 3-2 win over the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils in a highly-entertaining match Thursday night. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Escanaba Eskymos were on the football field for the first time Thursday night after cancellations due to coronavirus shutdowns. It was a JV game, played before a small crowd of family members, but the Eskymos were back. Escanaba beat Marquette, 34-12, as Casey Bray threw touchdown passes to Trent Lawson and added a rushing touchdown. Click the above headline to see photos and video highlights.
