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.
A Gladstone High School graduate had a breakout year as a freshman in college football, and now he’s looking to expand his opportunities heading into this upcoming season. Christian Creten was the leading tackler for Finlandia University last season, and on Monday, he entered the NCAA Transfer Portal. Click the above headline to read details.
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.
A member of the Marquette Senior High School hockey team has signed to play hockey in Canada. Jakob Peterson will become a member of the Drayton Valley Thunder of the Alberta Junior Hockey Association. Click the above headline for details.
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control voted to cancel 2020 spring sports regular-season competitions and the Tournament Series while allowing individual, virtual spring sports coaching to continue. Click the above headline for details.
The Radio Results Network is missing sports just as much as you are. So until the games begin again in the U.P., we will broadcast a different "classic" game every week on three of our radio stations, as well as on-line. Our first broadcast is scheduled for this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Click the above headline to see details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association announced on Monday that schools are being assigned to their divisions beforehand in football, rather than taking the state's top 256 teams and then breaking them down by division. The state also announced some schools are changing divisions in various sports. Click the above headline for details.
The folks who run some of the Upper Peninsula’s American Legion Baseball programs say they’re not giving up on playing baseball at some point this summer here in the U.P. It just won't be "legion ball". Click the above headline for details.
The Detroit News is out with its high school girls basketball All-State Teams. Click the above headline to see who made the paper's list. (Pictured: Nicole Kamin).
Iron Mountain's Marcus Johnson and Foster Wonders were both named as Division Three First Team All-Staters on Tuesday by the Associated Press, while the U.P.'s Nick Edington and Ashton Janke were Division Four First Teamers and Carney-Nadeau's Brett LaFord was named to the D-4 Second Team. Click the above headline to read details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announced the All-U.P. boys basketball teams Monday night. Click the above headline to see the list.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announced the All-U.P. boys basketball teams Friday night. Click the above headline to see the list.
