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.
The Rapid River High School softball team overwhelmed the Munising Mustangs in a doubleheader sweep on Thursday, winning both games by 15-0 scores. The first game went four innings, the nightcap went three innings. Natalie Belanger pitched two perfect games, not allowing a baserunner all afternoon. She had 19 strikeouts altogether. Kirsten Goodacre was 6-for-6 at the plate with four runs batted in, including a three-run homer. Cecilia Pilon had four hits in the doubleheader while Jaden Schwartz had a triple and three RBI in the nightcap. The Rockets host Negaunee on Monday.
Former Menominee High School student-athletes have established the “Ken Hofer Maroon Student-Athlete Scholarship Fund” in honor of long-time Menominee football coach and mentor, Ken Hofer. Click the above headline to read details.
The Gladstone High School baseball team lost twice at a round-robin tournament in Lower Michigan on Saturday, losing to Rockford, 11-6, and to Grand Rapids Catholic Central, 9-6. Click the above headline for details.
The Rapid River High School girls softball team opened the season Tuesday with two wins over Superior Central, 14-7 and 14-4. The games were played two days early due to the pending winter storm. Click the above headline for details. (Rapid River team photo)
The Gladstone High School baseball team won all three of its games at a season-opening tournament in Mauston, Wis., beating St. Croix, 8-1, on Friday, then beating Somerset, 16-8, and Medford, 4-2, on Saturday. Click the above headline to see photos, videos.
The Escanaba High School baseball team fell behind 6-1 in the first two innings on Saturday and lost to Hayward, Wis., 11-6, in Mauston. This followed a win and a loss in Friday's action. Click the above headline for details, plus photos and videos.
After 31 years as the Head Coach of the Kingsford Flivvers, Coach Chris Hofer is hanging up his cleats. Hofer posted an overall record of 253-94 with State Championship appearances in 1990, 1992, 1993, and 1996 with a perfect 13-0 State Championship season in 1993. Hofer will be inducted into the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame, class of 2019.
An adjustment to the Ice Hockey Tournament schedule was the most notable action taken by the Representative Council of the Michigan High School Athletic Association during its annual Winter Meeting in Grand Rapids, while a number of additional topics were discussed in advance of expected votes at its next meeting.
Kraft Heinz on Sunday announced the top four finalist communities competing for the title of Kraft Hockeyville USA 2019. And Calumet is one of them, just three years after Marquette won the title and renovation money. Click the above headline for details.
The St. Ignace Saints High School girls basketball team came up two points short in its quest for a state championship on Saturday, falling to Adrian Lenawee Christian, 48-46, at Calvin College. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA story, photo)
The Upper Peninsula high school girls basketball season has wrapped up. Click the above headline to see all of the daily schedules, and the radio broadcast schedules.
