The Escanaba High School baseball team won both ends of a doubleheader Tuesday, sweeping the Menominee Maroons, 9-0 and 7-1, on Senior Night at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline to see photos and videos from the doubleheader.
The Escanaba High School baseball team picked up a couple of come-from-behind victories in Marquette on Monday, winning the opener, 4-3, in nine innings, and taking the nightcap, 7-5. Click the above headline to read details, and hear post-game interviews.
The Gladstone Braves softball team won the Tawas Invitational on Saturday. The Braves beat the Tawas Braves, 9-2. Jenna Tardiff had RBI doubles in each of the first two innings and Taelor Zeise singled in two runs in the first inning and doubled home two more runs in the sixth. Andie Balenger pitched a complete game eight hitter and had an RBI hit at the plate. Gladstone beat Ogemaw Heights, 13-5. Taylor Trudeau had a grand slam home run and Sydney Herioux had three hits and two RBI. Zeise had a double and three RBI.
The Escanaba Eskymos Softball team ran into a buzzsaw on Saturday in rainy Ann Arbor, losing to the top ranked Division One team in Michigan, Clarkston, 5-0. Gabi Salo was charged with five runs (one earned) on ten base hits. Esky made four errors. The Eskymos did not get a base runner, as pitcher Olivia Warrington threw a perfect game. Escanaba did better on Friday. The Eskymos shut out South Lyon, 3-0, as Gabi Salo threw another no-hitter. She struck out 13 batters and allowed just one walk. Later, Escanaba topped Saine, 6-2. Lexi Chaillier had four hits in the doubleheader.
The Gladstone Braves hit five home runs, two of them by Cody Frappier, as they rolled to a doubleheader sweep over the Marquette Redmen, 6-1 and 10-0, Friday in Gladstone. Click the above headline to see photos and videos taken by Brad Landis.
The Escanaba High School baseball team posted a 9-3 victory over the Menominee Maroons Thursday night at Spies Field as Noah Lancour threw five innings of no-hit ball. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos, video highlights.
The Gladstone Braves baseball team got revenge for a pair of earlier losses to the Negaunee Miners on Wednesday with two lopsided victories, 14-2 and 11-2, at Negaunee's IronTown Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos.
The Escanaba Eskymos scored three runs in the first inning to beat the Gladstone Braves in high school softball on Monday, 3-0, in Gladstone. But the Braves rallied from four runs down to take the nightcap, 8-5. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and videos taken by Johnny Schlenvogt and Nate Belleville.
The Gladstone Braves baseball team stayed undefeated in Great Northern Conference play with a pair of wins on Monday over the Menominee Maroons, 4-2 and 13-3, at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for photos and videos taken by Nate Belleville.
The Escanaba High School baseball team gave up five unearned runs in the first inning and lost the opener of a doubleheader to the Kingsford Flivvers, 5-1, Tuesday at Lodal Park. The Eskymos regrouped to pound the Flivvers in the nightcap, 13-0. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves scored three runs in the fifth inning to rally past the Escanaba Eskymos, 4-1, in a pitching battle between the two Delta County rivals. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and videos taken by Nate Belleville.
The Escanaba High School softball team bounced back from Friday's tough loss by posting a pair of wins on Saturday, while the Gladstone Braves lost to the state's two top-ranked teams. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team won both of its games at its home tournament on Saturday, turning back Sault Ste. Marie, 10-4, and Cheboygan, 6-0. Kingsford split its games at the event. Click the above headline for photos, video clips.
Gabbi Sherman struck out 15 batters and allowed just one hit as the Millington Cardinals beat the Escanaba Eskymos, 3-0, in a high school softball showdown on Friday. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos taken by Johnny Schlenvogt.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association has approved the addition of seeding at the district level in basketball and is making big changes to how the football playoff teams are selected. The representative council also approved using instant replay at Finals events. Click the above headline to read those and other changes.
The Gladstone Braves swept a softball doubleheader from the Rapid River Rockets on Tuesday, 8-2 and 5-2, in Rapid River. Click the above headline for photos, video clips.
Jake LaFave hit a two-run homer with two out in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 1-1 tie and lift the Escanaba Eskymos to a 3-1 win over the Bark River-Harris Broncos Monday night at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Gladstone High School baseball team swept a doubleheader from the Calumet Copper Kings, 1-0 and 6-0, on Saturday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School softball team wrapped up a perfect weekend on Saturday with two victories at a tournament in Wisconsin. Click the above headline to read details.
The Gladstone Braves swept both ends of a doubleheader from the Escanaba Eskymos, 10-0 and 12-2, on a chilly Tuesday evening in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details.
Former Escanaba High School golfer Johnny Kositzky finished his sophomore season of college golf on Monday with a career-best as his Wisconsin Lutheran College team competed in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference championships in Aurora, Ill. Kositzky shot a 73, good for one over par, and a 12th place finish for the tournament. He finished with a four-day total of 315 strokes (85-81-76-73). Kositzky (left) is pictured with teammate Derek Disch.
The Escanaba High School baseball team bounced back from Thursday’s losses to the Negaunee Miners by posting a 10-2 win over Green Bay Southwest on Saturday in Green Bay. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, video highlights.
The Escanaba High School softball team won three games on Saturday to take the Ashwaubenon Invitational on a chilly day in suburban Green Bay. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, video clips from Saturday's first game.
The Gladstone High School baseball team lost the first game of its downstate roadtrip on Friday, falling 5-3 to Traverse City Central. The Braves came back to win twice on Saturday, however, beating Kingsley, 9-1 and 4-0. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone High School softball team rolled to four wins in Lower Michigan this weekend by a combined score of 58-7. Click the above headline for details.
The Negaunee High School baseball team swept both ends of a doubleheader on Thursday, beating the Escanaba Eskymos, 15-11 and 3-0, in Escanaba. It was the Miners' third straight doubleheader sweep to open the season, all on the road. Click the above headline to read game details, and to see photos taken by Hunter Lancour.
The Escanaba High School softball team swept a doubleheader from the Rapid River Rockets on Wednesday, winning 10-0 in six innings and 11-0 in five innings, at Lemmerand Park. Click the above headline to read details, photos, videos.
Austin Willette hit a two-run homer and Jake Anderson added a three-run double as the Escanaba High School baseball team won its home-opener on Tuesday, 16-8, over the Kingsford Flivvers. Click the above headline to read details and see photos, videos.
The Gladstone Braves lost both ends of their baseball doubleheader to the Negaunee Miners, 5-2 and 6-5, Tuesday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Braves topped the Menominee Maroons in both ends of a doubleheader on Friday, 12-0 and 11-1, as the teams met for the first time in the new Great Northern Conference. Click the above headline for details, see photos and listen to interviews.
