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.
The Escanaba High School volleyball team played for the first time in three-and-a-half weeks Tuesday nignt, and cruised to a 3-0 win over the Stephenson Eagles. The scores were 25-17, 25-13, 25-14. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
Kane Nebel threw a pair of first half touchdown passes to Ethan Lakosky to help the Munising Mustangs turn back the Stephenson Eagles, 28-14, Saturday in Stephenson. Click the above headline for details, photos, and video highlights.
The Gladstone Braves and Kingsford Flivvers traded big plays, and mistakes, before the Flivvers eeked out a 30-28 win over the Braves in a highly-entertaining game Friday night in Kingsford. Click the above headline for details, photos, and videos.
The Kingsford Flivvers junior varsity football team overwhelmed the Gladstone Braves, 37-6, Thursday night in Gladstone. Meanwhile, in varsity action, Rapid River rolled past Newberry, 48-12. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Negaunee Miners captured the MHSAA Division One Upper Peninsula girls tennis championship on Monday, taking five of the eight flights. Click the above headline to read details, courtesy of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. (Ryan Stieg photo)
The Gladstone High School volleyball team lost the first set of its Great Northern Conference match against the Menominee Maroons Monday night, but Megan Crow led a big turnaround as the Braves posted a 3-1 (19-25, 25-10, 25-16, 25-15) win. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and video highlights.
The Manistique Emeralds beat Gogebic Miners 12-0 on Saturday in Wakefield. Wyatt Gierke had 89 yards rushing and a nine-yard TD run. Carter Miller added a 7-yard TD run in a game where both defenses forced several turnovers. The Emeralds (1-2) host Bark River-Harris next Friday.
Cam Kelly had three long touchdown runs, Hunter Potier had four quarterback sacks, and Cole Potier had a scoop-n-score touchdown as the Gladstone Braves beat the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils, 28-26, Friday night on Blue Devil Homecoming. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, videos, and interviews.
The Gladstone High School volleyball team pulled out a 3-2 win over the Gwinn Model Towners Thursday night, as senior Megan Crow dominated the fifth set that was set up by clutch serving by sophomore Alivia Blowers. The scores were 25-23, 17-25, 15-25, 27-25, 15-10. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and videos.
The Gladstone High School junior varsity team scored touchdowns on the first two offensive possessions Thursday and cruised past the Sault Ste. Marie Blue Devils, 24-6, at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
Sone members of the Escanaba High School football team gathered at the school on Tuesday to plead with administrators to allow sports to resume immediately. This after Superintendent Coby Fletcher decided last week to have junior and high school classes be delivered over the Internet for two weeks, and put on hold all extracurricular activies. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and interviews.
