Blake Henriksen turned in a dominating pitching performance Thursday night for the Marquette Blues U19 Upper Peninsula baseball team, throwing a two-hitter as the Blues shut down Iron Mountain, 3-0, at Liuna Field. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Cubs got clutch pitching and timely hitting Wednesday night to beat the Menominee Red Wave, 8-2, in a Upper Peninsula U19 Baseball League game in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Marquette Blues outslugged the Menominee Red Wave, 11-6, Monday night, to break Menominee's season-opening 11-game winning streak. Also Monday, Gladstone rallied to beat Bark River in extra innings and Escanaba scored two late runs to beat Coleman in northern Wisconsin. Click the above headline to read details.
The Upper Peninsula u19 Baseball League continued with games on Sunday in Iron Mountain and Menominee. At Spies Field, the Menominee Red Wave swept the Eastern U.P. Wood Ducks from the Soo, 1-0 and 11-0, to stay undefeated on the season. And at LiUna Field, the Iron Mountain-Kingsford-Norway team beat the Copper Country Flames twice, 6-1 and 7-2. Click the above headline to see CC Flames photos taken by Kalee Parisot.
The Escanaba Cubs and Bark River Bucs played two games that went down to the wire Friday night, with Escanaba winning both. The Junior Cubs won, 10-9, and the senior Cubs eeked out a 1-0 win. Click the above headline to read details, see photos, videos.
The Gladstone Indians picked up their first Upper Peninsula Baseball League win Thursday night, beating the Marquette Blues, 6-5. Zach Hanson walked with the bases loaded to win the game. Click the above headline for photos, videos taken by Ginny Krouth.
In the Upper Peninsula baseball league Wednesday night, the Marquette Blues had their home opening doubleheader against the Bark River Bucs. In the opener, the blues held off the Bucs, 4-3, and then scored nine runs in the third inning of the nightcap to win going away, 12-2. Click the above headline to read game details.
Girls from Rapid River and Bark River-Harris got together for a fun game of softball Monday night in Rapid River. Click the above headline for details, photos, video clips.
The Menominee Red Wave jumped to an 8-0 lead and rolled past the Gladstone Indians, 12-4, in an Upper Peninsula u-19 baseball contest Sunday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Escanaba Cubs Under-19 baseball team beat Negaunee, 11-1, in Sunday's first game at Al Ness Field, but lost a tough 8-7 decision to the Copper Country Flames later in the day. The Flames played Iron Mountain earlier in the day and had a comeback fall short, 11-8. Click the above headline for photos, videos from the action.
There will be no Upper Peninsula u19 baseball games played on Saturday as the rain is expected to last all day long. The plan now is to play six games on Sunday, with a different schedule than was previously planned. Game times in Escanaba, Gladstone, and at Bay College will be 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Click the above headline to see the new schedule.
The Escanaba Cubs scored six runs in the first inning to build a big lead, then had to hang on at the end to beat the Bark River Bucs, 9-7, in the Cubs' season opener Friday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
Kyle Frusti's two-run single capped a four-run bottom of the seventh inning as the Marquette Blues stunned the Gladstone Indians, 7-6, Friday in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos from the game.
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.
