Bay College has hired its first-ever volleyball head coach. Dan Porath, who had been coaching at UW-Marinette, will lead the Norse when they begin their first-ever volleyball season in 2022. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team won two games and lost two games this weekend against the Delta College Pioneers from Saginaw. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Northern Michigan University football team tried to rally in the final seconds on Saturday, but lost to the Davenport Panthers, 18-13, on DU Homecoming downstate. Click the above headline for details, and to hear player spotlight interviews with Drake Davis and Will Borchert. (Davenport story, photo)
The Northern Michigan University hockey team opened the season Friday night with a 4-1 win over St. Thomas University, the newest Division One school out of Minnesota. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
It was a Happy Homecoming in Marquette on Saturday as the Northern Michigan University football team came back from a 19-0 deficit to stun the Wayne State University Warriors, 26-19, at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline to read all of the details, and listen to interviews with Jay Young and John McMullen.
Northwood football earns their first win of the season thanks to a big second half, defeating Northern Michigan 37-20 Saturday. The Timberwolves outscored the Wildcats 34-7 in the second half. Click the above headline for details, photo courtesy of Northwood U. Also click to hear RRN player spotlight interviews with Jake Dudeck and Trevor Hiller.
The Lake Superior State volleyball team earned a 3-2 victory in front of a spirited home crowd in a GLIAC match against the Northern Michigan Wildcats on Saturday. The scores were 25-15, 15-25, 25-19, 24-26, and 15-12. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University football team rebounded from last week's loss to UW-Oshkosh by beating Davenport, 20-14, Saturday at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline to read details and hear interview with Payton Muljo and DJ Hutcherson. (NMU Photo)
This Saturday’s cross country invitational hosted by Bay College has been cancelled. Athletic Director Matt Johnson says it’s because of COVID-19, and lack of available runners and staff. The Norse also did not compete as scheduled last weekend at a meet hosted by Concordia College in Milwaukee.
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestlers David Stepanian and Benji Peak placed second at the Senior World Team Trials this weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska. Click the above headline for details. (NMU-NTS photo)
On day two of the UIndy Volleyball Invitational, the Northern Michigan University volleyball team avenged their previous day with a sweep of Bemidji State 3-0 and a win over Cedarville University 3-1, Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details.
Michigan State rolled to the championship of the Island Resort Collegiate championship at Sage Run. The Spartans had the top two golfers, as James Piot and Troy Taylor tied for medalist honors. Northern MIchigan, the only Division Two team in the field, finished last. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan State Spartans rolled to a 16-stroke lead Sunday heading into the final round of the Island Resort NCAA Men's Golf Championship at the Sage Run Golf Course. Battling high winds and fatigue after 36 holes and nine hours of golf, United States Amateur champion James Piot carded a 138 to take a one-stroke lead over his MSU teammate, Troy Taylor. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan University football team made a successful return to the field on Saturday with a 27-20 win over the McKendree Bearcats in southern Illinois. Click the above headline for details, and interviews with Brady Hanson and Deandre Caldwell.
The Bay College Norse baseball and softball teams are back on the Escanaba campus now that summer is winding down and fall classes resume next Monday. The teams were back on the field Wednesday night as fall practices have begun. Click the above headline for more.
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association on Thursday announced its compaosite schedule for the 2021-22 season. Northern Michigan University plays the most home games of any conference team. Click the above headline for all of the details.
The Finlandia University volleyball team will be holding a camp for 9th thru 12th grade, Wednesday. It will be from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Paavo Nurmi Center. Click the above headline for details.
The NJCAA released the list of Academic All-Americans for the 2020-2021 school year, which included 13 student-athletes from the Bay College Norse Athletic Department. Click the above headline to read more details.
A record 13 members of the Wildcat hockey program have been named AHCA/Krampade All-American Scholars as announced today. Click the above headline for details.
Lake Superior State University has selected veteran collegiate athletics executive and Michigan native David L. Diles as its new director of athletics after conducting a national search. He succeeds Dr. David Paitson, who earlier resigned after four years to accept an assistant professor of sport management position at University of Indianapolis. Click the above headline to read details.
There will be basketball camps held at both Bay College and Finlandia University this summer. Click the above headline to read the details on both.
The Northern Michigan University Athletic Department presents the 2020-21 Wildcat Awards. For the second straight year, the awards will be presented exclusively through the NMU Athletics website and social media accounts. Click the above headline for details.
Northern Michigan University has a total of 173 student-athletes that were named to the 2020-21 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference All-Academic and All-Academic Excellence teams. Click the above headine to see the 173 kids who made the list.
The Northern Michigan University Athletic Department and Wildcat hockey are planning to welcome back fans to the Berry Events Center for the 2021-22 season. Click the above headline for details.
Bay College Administration and Athletic Director Matt Johnson announced that the Board of Trustees has approved the addition of Volleyball as the seventh sport to the Norse Athletics Program. Click the above headline for details.
Northern Michigan University has selected Andy Keller as head Nordic ski coach. Keller served as associate head coach during the 2020-21 season and was the Wildcats' Assistant Coach for three years prior. Click the above headline to read details.
American Legion Baseball is back after the 2020 season was cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus. While an Upper Peninsula league was set up and a champion was crowned, the usual statewide competition under the Legion banner didn't happen. Monday night, the Escanaba Junior Cubs beat the Marquette Junior Reds in two games. Click the above headline for photos and videos from those games.
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestlers Benji Peak, Alston Nutter and David Stepanian topped the podium at the U23 Nationals yesterday in Lincoln, Nebraska. All three earned a spot on USA Wrestling's U23 World Team and will compete in Belgrade, Serbia this November. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse softball team pulled a big upset on Monday in the NJCAA Region 13 semifinals before losing in the championship game to Miles Community College (Montana), 13-2, in suburban Minneapolis. Click the above headline for details.
The 2021 baseball season came to an end for the Bay College Norse on Saturday, with two more losses to Dakota County Technical College in Minnesota. DCTC won, 10-5 and 10-0. Grant Craft and Dalton Graham both drove in two runs in the opener for Bay. On Frida, DCTC won, 6-5 and 8-1. Bay led the opener 5-3 in bottom of 7th but gave up three runs and lost. Carson Shea had a 2-run single and Tanner Halvorson had 2 hits. In the 2nd game, eight different Norse players got hits but couldn’t string them together. Shea had 2 hits. Jack Bower pitched 5 2/3 innings and took the loss. Bay finished its season with a 4-33 record.
