The Bark River Bucs hosted the first baseball games in Delta County Wednesday night, turning back a young Niagara, Wis., team, 14-2 and 20-3 in a pair of mercy-shortened games. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Marquette Blues kicked off its Upper Peninsula U-19 Baseball season with a come-from-behind 10-6 win over the Copper Country Flames Tuesday night in Hancock. The Blues rallied from a 6-3 deficit by scoring seven runs over the final two innings to get the win. The second game was called by darkness. Click the above headline to read details.
The Menominee Red Wave swept a doubleheader from the Copper Country Flames on Saturday, 4-0 and 6-1, at Spies Field. It was the first games for both teams as the new Upper Peninsula U19 Baseball League. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula u19 Baseball League held its first game Wednesday night as the Iron Mountain Golds played the Bark River Bucs. The Golds scored nine runs in the fourth inning to pull away to a 12-4 win. Click the above headline to read details.
The Norway, Kingsford, and Iron Mountain Little Leagues announced in Saturday Facebook posts that they will not be having baseball or softball seasons this summer. Click the above headline to read details.
Plans were announced Tuesday night to form an Upper Peninsula baseball team for teenagers, in place of the American Legion baseball programs that have been cancelled for the summer statewide. The U19 Upper Peninsula Baseball League plans to play an entirely Upper Peninsula schedule. Click the above headline to read details.
Escanaba and Gladstone Little Leaguers will be back on the field in six weeks as the coronavirus crisis appears to have eased in the region. Both are taking registrations now and plan to start play on July 6. Click the above headline for details.
There will be no Little League Baseball or Softball state tournaments held this summer in Michigan. The state’s 16 district administrators have voted to cancel state tournaments, but some local play could continue. Click the above headline to read more.
There will be no Little League Baseball or Softball World Series this summer, nor will there be regional tournaments held. That announcement came on Thursday in Williamsport. Little League can still hold district, sectional, and state tournaments if health conditions allow depending on the state. Click the above headline to read the details.
After conflicting reports last week from the American Legion baseball leadership, the word has come from Department of Michigan Chairman Barry Wood that the season has been cancelled. Click the above headline to read details.
The Michigan Amateur Hockey Association announced tonight it has cancelled all its remaining State Championships, including the Under-18 AA, 16A, and 18-AA state tournaments scheduled to be run at Marquette’s Lakeview Arena. Click the above headline to read details.
The Escanaba U.P. Ophthamology Squirt B hockey team won the 10u state championship on Sunday ub downtown Trenton. Escanaba beat Gladwin, 7-4, in the state semifinal game, and then won the championship over Kalamazoo, 6-2, Nick Martinson had nine of Escanaba's 13 goals in Sunday's two games.
Nick Martinson scored a hat trick and Griffin Johnson had three points as the Escanaba Hawks U.P. Ophtalmology U10 Squirt Hockey team surprised Marquette Kiwanis, 4-1, in the District Eight championship game on Sunday. The win sends Escanaba to the state tournament in Trenton. Click the above headline to see photos, videos.
The youth softball seasons have come to an end in Delta County, but there's still time to learn ways to get better at the sport in various clinics. Local girls didn't have to travel far on Monday as Saginaw Valley State University Head Coach Todd Buckingham held a clinic on the Bay College softball fields. Click the above headline for details.
The District Ten Little League All-Star season has wrapped up. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules for the tournaments.
The Kingsford Minor Boys (age 9-10) Little League All-Star team lost for the first time on Sunday at the state tournament in Dexter, but will advance to the state quarterfinals with a 2-1 pool play record. Click the above headline for videos taken by Ryan Grondin.
The Kingsford Minor Boys (age 9-10) Little League All-Stars won their first two games this weekend at the state tournament in downstate Dexter. The boys beat Mattawan, 10-4, Friday night, then topped Blissfield, 6-3, on Saturday morning. Click the above headline for details, and to see video clips taken by Ryan Grondin.
The Escanaba Minor Little League (age 9-10) softball team went 0-3 in pool play at the state tournament in downstate Marysville. The girls fell to Edwarsburg, 15-5, on Friday, and lost to Midland Bullock Creek, 9-5, on Saturday. The girls wrapped up play on Sunday with a 21-13 loss to Hudsonville. Click the above headline to see videos.
The Gladstone Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) had their World Series dreams shattered with one swing of the bat Friday afternoon in suburban Indiianapolis. Polk City, Iowa, outfielder Maddy Simeons launched a solo home run over the center field fence in the bottom of the sixth inning, giving her team a dramatic, walk-off, 5-4 win. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, videos taken by Amy Sundquist.
The Gladstone Major Girls Little League (age 11-12) softball team advanced to the Central Regional semifinals on Thursday with a 12-4 win over Marion County, Kentucky. The girls scored six runs in the bottom of the first inning to take control of the quarterfinal contest. Click the above headline for interviews, photos, videos taken by Amy Sundquist.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Stars (age 9-10) open the state tournament on Friday in downstate Marysville. The girls were part of a parade through the streets of the Blue Water community Thursday in Opening Ceremonies. Escanaba takes on Edwardsburg Friday at noon. They'll play Bullock Creek Saturday and Hudsonville on Sunday.
The Gladstone Major Little League (age 11-12) All-Stars advanced to the Central Regional quarterfinals on Wednesday with a 9-7 win over Columbia, Mo., in an error-filled softball game in Fishers, Ind. Click the above headline for details, listen to interviews, and to see photos, videos taken by Amy Sundquist.
The Kingsford Minor Boys (age 9-10) completed their comeback through the loser’s bracket with a dramatic 4-3 win over Escanaba in the District Ten championship game Tuesday night at Karl Dickson Field. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Gladstone Major Little League (age 11-12) softball team gave up two big innings on defense and couldn't recover, falling to Tallmadge, Ohio, 9-4, in the first game of the Central Regional tournament Monday in suburban Indianapolis. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, videos taken by Amy Sundquist.
The Kingsford Minor Boys (age 9-10) Little League baseball team forced a winner-take-all district championship game by scoring ten unearned runs in the first two innings and cruising to an 11-5 win over Escanaba Monday night. Bradley Steber pitched 5 2/3 innings to earn the win. He also had an RBI single and an RBI double at the plate. Zahn Anderson took the loss for Escanaba. The two teams play again Tuesday night at 6:30 ET to determine the district champion.
The Escanaba Minor Little League (age 9-10) baseball team advanced to the District Ten championship game on Saturday by shutting out Kingsford, 4-0, at Karl Dickson Field. Brody Ison fired a no-hitter for Escanaba in the victory. Gladstone eliminated Iron Mountain North, 12-10. Click the above headline for pictures from the Gladstone game.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Stars (age 9-10) won their third straight loser's bracket game Thursday night and captured the District Ten championship, 5-1, over Norway. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, video highlights.
The Gladstone Major Girls (age 11-12) All-Star softball team beat the heat, and then beat two high-caliber downstate teams to capture the state championship on Wednesday in downstate Tecumseh. The girls beat Grandville in the semifinals, 5-1, then shook off a sluggish start to turn back Vicksburg, 13-4, in the championship. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, videos taken by Amy Sundquist.
The Escanaba Minor Girls (age 9-10) Little League softball team stayed alive for a second straight day on Wednesday, beating Norway, 6-2, at Lemerand Park. The Minor Boys district finals, meanwhile, have been postponed. Click the above headline for details.
Breleigh Reinhart’s walk-off base hit in the bottom of the sixth inning scored Chloe DuBord with the winning run to lead the Escanaba Minor Little League All-Stars (age 9-10) to a 9-8 win over Kingsford in an elimination district tournament game Tuesday night at Lemerand Park. Click the above headline and see videos taken by Missy Reinhart.
