The Menominee Red Wave American Legion baseball team rode the pitching and hitting of Adrian Mercier and beat the Marquette Blues, 6-0, Tuesday night, in a match-up of two of last year's state tournament participants. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Junior Wildcats Midget BB 18U hockey team won another state championship on Sunday, this time, on home ice. The team, sponsored by Main Street Pizza, beat Fraser Big Boy, 11-0, at Lakeview Arena. It was a rematch of last year's state championship game, also won by Marquette. This year's team finished a perfect 39-0-0 on the season.
The Escanaba Hawks 14U bantam B hockey team won the MAHA State Championship on Sunday in Ironwood, rolling past Rochester, 11-0, in the semifinals, and then blasting Big Rapids, 10-1, in the championship game. Click the above headline for details and interviews.
The Escanaba Junior Hockey Association is home to two state champions, after the 10u Squirt team and the 12u Pee Wee team both dominated their way to championships on Sunday in Lower Michigan. Click the above headline for details and video highlights.
The Escanaba Hawks 12u Pee-Wee hockey team won a MAHA District Eight Upper Peninsula championship on Sunday, whipping Calumet in the semifinals, 13-2, and then taking Tahquamenon, 8-3, in the finals. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, interviews.
The Bark River-Harris Broncos wrestling team eeked out a 45-36 win over the Marinette Marines in a dual meet Wednesday night in Escanaba. It was part of a triangular with the host Eskymos. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Taylor North Little League All-Star team won the World Series championship Sunday in Williamsport, Penn. Click the above headline to read details.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team captured a Class A state championship on Saturday, beating the surprising Copper Country Flames, 10-0, in an all-U.P. final at Marquette's Haley Field. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Menominee Red Wave American Legion baseball team had its season come to an end on Friday, losing to Rosebush out of Mount Pleasant, 9-2, in the state tournament in Marquette. Menominee had stayed alive earlier in the day with a 6-2 win over Blissfield. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and videos.
The District Ten Little League Baseball and Softball All-Star playoffs have wrapped up. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team advanced to the state championship game on Friday, with an easy 10-0 win over the Copper Country Flames at Haley Field. Erik Johnson barely broke a sweat, striking out 12 batters and allowing just two hits in five innings. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team turned to "small ball" to turn around their Class A State tournament opener against Rosebush from the Mount Pleasant area Thursday. The Blues put down several successful bunts to take the lead, and then held on at the end as the downstate team mounted a late challenge. Marquette won, 8-5. Click the above headline for details.
The Copper Country Flames American Legion Baseball team won two games at the state tournament in Marquette on Thursday, and they did it in dramatic fashion. The Flames beat Chief Pontiac out of Metro Detroit, 2-1, and then topped Menominee, 1-0. Amd they did it on walk-off's in the seventh inning. Click the above headline for details.
The Norway Minor Boys (age 8-10) Little League baseball team had its season come to an end in the state championship game on Wednesday, falling to Greater Bay County Little League from Lower Michigan, 4-2, before a huge crowd at Marion Park. Click tha above headline to read details and see photos and video highlights from the game.
The Norway Minor Little League All-Stars (age 9-10) advanced to the state semifinals on Monday with a 16-7 win over Techumseh in a quarterfinal game in Norway. Click the above headline for details, see photos and videos, and listen to post-game interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion baseball team cruised to two more victories on Sunday, winning the Upper Peninsula Zone Five championship at Gladstone's Don Olsen Field. The Blues victory ended a string of "near misses" over the past several years. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and radio interviews.
A successful baseball season came to a startling end for the Dickinson County Greens American Legion team as they were disqualified from the Zone Five Upper Peninsula championships after winning their first three games. Click the above headline for details.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team won two games on Friday, and the Escanaba Cubs lost a down-to-the-wire battle with the Bark River Bucs, as the second day of the Upper Peninsula Zone Five Tournament was held in Delta County. Click the above headline for details, and see photos and videos and other scores.
The Dickinson County Greens American Legion Baseball team rallied from q 3-0 deficit to beat the Gladstone Indians, 6-5, in the first game of the Upper Peninsula Zone Five tournament on Thursday. Click the above headline to read details.
Grant LaMarche threw a complete-game one-hitter, striking out 13 batters as the Escanaba Cubs upset the Marquette Blues, 1-0, in the first game of the American Legion Zone Five Tournament on Thursday in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
The Bark River Bucs American Legion Baseball team opened the Upper Peninsula Zone Five tournament with a 17-3 win over the Negaunee Diamonds Thursday night in Escanaba. The Bucs scored ten runs in the first inning and cruised to the win on the five-inning mercy rule. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlights.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Star (age 9-10) softball team lost their state quarterfinal match-up on Monday, dropping a pitcher's duel with St. Clair, 2-0, in Rochester Hills. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba Major Little League All-Star (age 11-12) baseball team finished its state tournament run with a 11-1 win over Kalamazoo South Portage Monday at University Liggett High School. Brody Ison struck out eleven of the twelve outs that were recorded in the mercey-shortened game. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The Escanaba Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) fell behind early and had their comeback fall short in the final inning on Sunday, losing to Muskegon Roosevelt Park, 5-4, in the state tournament at University Liggett High School in Grosse Pointe. Click the above headline to read details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The Escanaba Minor Little League All-Star (age 9-10) softball team won two games Sunday at the state tournament in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, beating Three Rivers in the morning, 8-4, and then topping Big Rapids, 19-1, in the evening. The girls advance to the state quarterffnals. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Escanaba Minor League All-Star softball team (age 9-10) fell behind 4-0 in the first inning and couldn't mount a comeback, losing to Bullock Creek Southtown out of the Midland area, 6-0, at the state tournament Saturday in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos, videos.
A last-minute comeback attempt came up short for the Escanaba Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) at the state tournament in Grosse Pointe on Saturday. Bay City Southwest built a 5-0 lead and went on for a 5-2 win on the artificial turf at University Liggett High School. Click the above headline for details, photos, video highlighs.
ESCANABA 9-10 girls game delayed by three hours due to continued rain in Rochester Hills. Game now set for 1:30. Listen on FM-93.5 and AM-600 and RRNsports.com. Then we will hustle over to Grosse Pointe for our ESCANABA 11-12 boys game at 5:00. Same radio station.The 9-10 Minor Little League softball state tournament started Friday morning in Rochester Hills. But before the first batch of pool play games could get out of the fourth inning, heavy rain moved into the area.
The Escanaba Cubs had the lead all night long Wednesday night, but had the game literally slip away when rain started pouring down in the bottom of seventh inning as the Marquette Blues took advantage for a 5-4 win at Haley Field. Click the above headline for details, post-game interviews, and photos taken by Sheila Olsen.
The Marquette Blues took advantage of ten walks, five errors, and three hit-battsmen to roll past the Dickinson County Greens, 10-0, Tuesday night in Marquette. Justin Wenk threw a two-hitter. Click the above headline to read details and to see photos.
