The Escanaba Junior Girls (age 13-14) rolled to a 17-0 win over the Iron Mountain North All-Stars in the district tournament Saturday at Lemmerand Park. Three pitchers combined to throw a one-hitter for Escanaba. Click the headline to read more details and to see more pictures.
The Escanaba Major Girls (age 11-12) made the most of Kingsford's mistakes to post an 8-1 win in the district finals Friday night in Gladstone. That win came after the Gladstone girls eliminated Iron Mountain North, 15-2, in a losers bracket game.
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The District Ten 9-10 boys district tournament began on Friday and there were lots of runs put on the Karl Dickson Field scoreboard. Escanaba outlasted Schaffer, 16-6, before Munising scored eight runs in the fourth inning to top Tri-County, 13-3.
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Hannah Edington tossed a complete-game four-hitter as the Escanaba Major Girls (age 11-12) topped the Gladstone All-Stars, 6-0, in a Little League District tournament game Monday in Gladstone. Darby Beckon had two hits for Escanaba.
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The All-Star season for Little League softball gets an early start this summer as the Major Girls (age 11-12) begin their district tournaments this weekend. The state tournament will be held in Gladstone in a couple of weeks. Click the above headline to see the schedules for the Little Leaguers.
The Iron Mountain North Minor Boys scored four runs in the third inning, then rode the pitching of C.J. Bolo to beat Norway, 7-1, to win the championship of the "Yooper 9-10" baseball tournament Tuesday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline to see more pictures and videos.
It was Dickinson County 2, Delta County 0 at the Little League Baseball's "Yooper" 9-10 boys baseball tournament on Sunday in Escanaba. Norway rallied to beat Gladstone, 16-9, and then Iron Mountain topped Escanaba, 15-0. Click the above headline to read the story, see pictures, and watch videos.
The annual "Yooper 9-10" Boys Baseball Tournament has completed its quarterfinal round, with the semifinals set for Sunday and the championship game planned for Tuesday night in Escanaba. Norway, Gladstone, Escanaba, and Iron Mountain all posted victories to advance to the Final Four. Click the above headline to see the details, along with a few pictures courtesy of Sandi Young.
The British are coming, the British are coming!
They're coming to teach our kids how to play soccer this summer. Challenger Sports holds summer soccer camps in all 50 states, as well as in Canada. And they will come to four Upper Peninsula cities this year: Munising, Manistique, Iron Mountain, and St. Ignace.
Click the above headline to read more about the camps, see registration information, and hear audio soundbytes from A.J. Nwosu describing the goal of the camps.
The Keweenaw Storm Under-19 girls hockey team lost Saturday in the quarterfinals of the USA Hockey National Tournament in Irving, Texas. The girls fell to the Alaskan state champions, 1-0, to drop out of the running for a national championship. The Storm lost despite outshooting Alaska, 29-11.
Escanaba nine-year-old Nicole Kamin won the championship at the Elks Hoop Shoot Regional Finals over the weekend in Angola, Ind. She made 19 of her 25 shots, and then made all five shots in a tiebreaker to take first place in the competition.
