The Fall 2020 football season has been reinstated today by the Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association after Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Executive Order 176 lifted restrictions that previously did not allow the sport to be played. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School girls tennis team won all four doubles matches and split the singles matches, and beat the Munising Mustangs, 6-2, on Wednesday. Click the above headline for photos from the #3 and #4 singles matches, and coach's comments.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer gave no indication Wednesday afternoon that she will make the changes requested by the Michigan High School Athletic Association to move forward with football, and to allow some other sports to resume downstate. In fact, the governor pointed to "concerning" case counts in the U.P. and northern lower peninsula while saying she'd have an announcement "very soon". Click the above headline for more.
Senior Taylor Kedsch had 19 kills Tuesday to lead the Carney-Nadeau Wolves to a 3-0 win over the Bark River-Harris Broncos in girls volleyball action. The scores were 25-20, 25-18, 25-18. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Members of the Bark River-Harris and North Central High School football teams made the long trip to Lansing on Friday to take part in a rally with hundreds of their downstate peers on the steps of the state capitol. Click the above headline to see photos and listen to interviews with the Jets and Broncos players.
The 2020 high school cross country season got underway Friday with the Marquette Relays. Click the above headline for details, and Gladstone Braves photos.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Marquette Redettes played to a 4-4 tie in girls tennis Thursday in Marquette. Click the above headline to read the details.
Upper Peninsula State Senator Ed McBroom calls the cancellation of the high school and college football seasons in Michigan “ridiculous” and says that the decisions will hurt kids, young adults, and entire communities. Click the above headline for his comments.
The Battle of Delta County's first match-up of the high school girls tennis season was closely contested as always on Monday, as the Escanaba Eskymos beat the Gladstone Braves, 5-3, in Gladstone. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association representative Council decided on Thursday to move forward with volleyball, soccer, and swimming in the Upper Peninsula. Football remains cancelled until next spring. Up to . Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School softball team played together one final time on Saturday, taking part in a game against a team of Eskymo alumni at Lemmerand Park. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos from the game.
The Class of 2020 had all of their senior memories taken from them by the coronavirus, including their entire softball seasons. But 28 girls from across the Upper Peninsula got to take the field in a pair of All-Star type games Friday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details and to see game photos.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association decided to cancel the fall football season on Friday, moving it to the spring instead. For now, the U.P. volleyball season can continue. Click the above headline to read details.
The U.P. Football All-Star Game announced Tuesday that sixteen U.P. high school football teams will receive donations from the game this year. The game was cancelled by the pandemic, but sponsor support was shared with schools. Twelve schools got $1,000 each and four schools were given equipment. Click the above headline for details.
The Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association Wednesday approved the next steps in returning sports for this fall. Cross Country, golf, and girls tennis can proceed. Volleyball practice can begin on time, but competition is delayed. Football practice can start Aug. 10 with conditioning only, but practice with pads can't start until Aug. 17 and games are delayed. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Escanaba High School hockey team waited four months to hold their annual post-season banquet Tuesday night. It wasn't the usual gathering, but the boys were still recognized with a social-distanced event. Click the above headline for setails.
Officials from Bark River International Raceway, the Bark River Lions Club and Championship Off Road, regret to announce that the 45th Annual Island Resort and Casino Off-Road Rumble in the U.P scheduled for August 14-16, has been canceled
Three-time All-State basketball player Foster Wonders of Iron Mountain announced Monday that he will attend school and play basketball at Southern Illinois University in 2021-22, an NCAA Division One school in the Missouri Valley Conference. Click the above headline for more.
The Upper Peninsula High School Football All-Star Game, which had been postponed from June until August 1 at the Superior Dome, has been cancelled. The announcement came Saturday night amidst a recent uptick in coronavirus cases. Click the above headline for detais.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association responded on Wednesday to Governor Gretchen Whitmer's press conference from the day before that it move fall sports like football and volleyball to the spring to preserve social distancing. Click the above headline to see the response from MHSAA Director Mark Uyl.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer is calling on the Michigan High School Athletic Association to move certain fall sports to next spring where social distancing is not possible. Her comments on Tuesday seemed aimed at football and volleyball, although she did not name them specifically. Click the above headline for the governor's comments.
High school sports are closer to resuming as the coronavirus fears ease and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer removes some of the restrictions that had been in place. Click the avove headline to read about the summer workout guidelines.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer Friday announced appointments to the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports. One of them is Ryan Reichel of Negaunee, the girls basketball coach at Ishpeming High School. Click the above headline for details.
Escanaba High School senior Gabi Salo has been named the Gatorade Michigan Softball Player of the Year for the 2019-20 school year. Click the above headline to read more, and to see comments from Salo and her coach/father Gary Salo.
Two Upper Peninsula natives have committed to continue their education and play basketball at Olivet College. Dre Tuominen of Negaunee and Ryan Robinette of Escanaba announced together on Monday. Click the above headline to read more.
Organizers of the Upper Peninsula high school football All-Star game have postponed, not canceled, this summer's event. It was scheduled for late June. It is now scheduled for August 1 in Marquette. Click the above headline to read details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association says it will seed the hockey regionals this winter, and will change the basketball system where the top seed of a district to make sure that if there is a bye, the top seed gets it. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School boys basketball team won three straight state championships in 2015, 2016, and 2017, posting a national record winning streak along the way. This weekend, relive the 2016 title win over Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes by listening to Jerry Root's broadcast. Thursday and Saturday at 4:00 CT on Eagle 107.3, Friday at 4:00 CT on Maverick 106.3, and Sunday at 2:00 CT on NewsTalk 600 AM.
Escanaba native Brayden Stannard took another step toward his hockey dreams on Tuesday when he was drafted in the second round of the United States Hockey League's Green Bay Gamblers. Click the above headline to read more and hear his interview.
The Radio Results Network will help to fill some of that sports void this weekend with the re-broadcast of last June's high school softball state championship game between the Escanaba Eskymos and Stevensville-Lakeshore. Click the above headline for details.
