Payton Jacobson of the Northern Michigan Greco-Roman Wrestling program secured a thrilling best-of-3 victory in the 87kg weight class final to earn his spot on the Team USA Olympic roster. Click the above headline to see all of the details. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College Norse women's softball team picked up a huge win over the Mid Michigan College Lakers on Saturday, winning, 11-4, at the Wells Sports Complex. The Lakers won the nightcap, 14-1. Click the above headline for details, videos, and post-game interviews.
It was an historic evening on Thursday for the Iron Mountain High School baseball program as the Mountaineers faced the L'Anse Purple Hornets. Senior pitcher Niko Burgoon tossed a perfect game, retiring all 15 batters he faced in the five-inning game. He struck out 14 of those batters. It was the first perfect game ever thrown by a Mountaineer pitcher. Iron Mountain won the game easily, 11-0, for its first win of the season (1-3).
The Gladstone Braves and Negaunee Miners hooked up in a pair of tightly-contested baseball games Thursday evening at Don Olsen Field. The Braves pulled out both games, 2-0 and 4-1, as the Miners stranded 16 baserunners in the doubleheader. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse Softball Team picked up a pair of conference wins on the road Tuesday, defeating the Alpena Lumberjacks, 12-4 and 11-4. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team's playoff push ran into a roadblock on Tuesday after the Norse won the first game of a doubleheader, but coughed up a late lead in the nightcap, in Alpena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Bay College Norse baseball team played four non-conference games on the road this weekend, and brought home two victories heading into a crucial doubleheader Tuesday in Alpena. Click the above headline for details. (Bay College photo)
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team grew its incoming class by three more players this week as Coach Todd Chiochetto continues to build on last season's surprising success. Click the above headline for details. (Holly Letson photo)
The Escanaba High School baseball team opened its season with a 12-3 win over the Iron Mountain Mountaineers Wednesday night at Al Ness Field. Ben Johnson and Brian Boutilier both drove in two runs in an eight-run fifth inning that put the game away. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The high school baseball season got underway on Tuesday as the Gladstone Braves swept a doubleheader from the Iron Mountain Mountaineers, 17-2, and 6-1, at Don Olsen Field. It was a rematch of last spring's regional semifinal game, but there were a lot of new faces on the field for both teams on Tuesday. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
he Bay College Softball Team picked up its first win of the season with a 17-6 victory in the opening game of a four-game set with the Grand Rapids Community College Raiders. GRCC took the next three games by scores of 8-1, 14-12, and 11-3. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Baseball Team lost all four games this weekend to the Grand Rapids Community College Raiders by scores of 10-1, 7-2, 11-4, and 6-3. Click the above headline for details.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association announed the All-U.P. teams Friday night for the just-completed girls basketball season. Negaunee's Ella Mason was named Miss U.P. Basketball as the Upper Peninsula's best player. Click the above headline to see all of the winners. (Photo of Ella Mason/Hudl)
St. Ignace High School senior Jonny Ingalls was the unanimous choice for Mr. U.P. Basketball as the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association revealed its All-U.P. teams Wednesday evening. Click the above headline for the entire list.
Michigan Tech's 2023-24 hockey season came to an end Friday in the NCAA Providence Regional Semifinal as the No. 20-ranked Huskies fell 6-1 to No. 1 Boston College. The Eagles scored four goals in the third period to break the game open. Click the above headline for details.
The Bay College Norse baseball team scored six unanswered runs in the final two innings to rally past the Muskegon Community College Jayhawks, 11-9, in the opening game of a four-game conference series Thursday in Muskegon. Blake Julian's three-run double in the seventh inning won it. Click the above headline for details. (Cohen Thompson photos)
The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team fell behind early, but recovered to pull past Kingston, 73-54, to win the MHSAA Division Four state championship Saturday in East Lansing. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA photo, story)
The Michigan Tech University hockey team won the CCHA championship and a bid to the NCAA Tournament Friday night with a 2-1 win over Bemidji State in Minnesota. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo and story)
The Negaunee Miners historic girls basketball season came to an end in the MHSAA Division Two state semifinals on Friday night with a 63-46 loss to Detroit Edison at the MSU Breslin Center. Click the above headline for details. (MHSAA Story, MHSAA Photo/Hockey Weekly Action)
The Ishpeming High School girls basketball team got 30 points from Jenna Maki, 22 of them in the first half, and the Hematites rolled past the Fowler Eagles, 75-40, in the MHSAA Division Four state semifinals Thursday night at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the MHSAA. (MHSAA photo)
Isabella DeWildt of Sault Ste. Marie High School was honored as a recipient of the Michigan High School Athletic Association/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award. The presentatipon was made at the boys basketball finals last weekend at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. She will receive $2,000 to use at her college of choice. (MHSAA Photo)
Three of Northern Michigan University's top men's basketball players announced on Wednesday that they are leaving town, offering their services to other universities through the NCAA Transfer Portal. Click the above headline to read more details.
Bay College women's basketball coach Todd Ciochetto is busy restocking the shelves for next season, less than two weeks after the Norse season ended in the regional semifinals. Click the above headline to see who has signed. (Pictured: Menominee's Axtall)
The Lake Superior State basketball program fell to the Ferris State Bulldogs in the closing moments of the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship in a hard-fought game by a final score of 86-81 on Tuesday. Click the above headline for details. (LSSU Photo, Story)
The Marquette Midget BB 18u hockey team won a MAHA state championship Sunday night in downstate Howell. Marquette beat Belle Tire from the Detroit suburb of Taylor, 4-3, in double overtime, in the championship game, after coming back from a 3-1 deficit. Earlier in the day, Marquette beat Big Boy from the Detroit suburb of Fraser, 4-1, in the semifinal.
The MHSAA girls basketball playoffs are in full swing across the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline to see the scores and schedules.
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team had its season come to an end on Saturday, losing to Ferris State, 81-65, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Indianapolis. Click the above headline for details. (Casey Ford Photo)
The Lake Superior State hockey program fell to the Bemidji State Beavers, 4-1, in the CCHA Mason Cup Semifinals on Saturday in Minnesota. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of Lake Superior State Athletics. (LSSU Photo)
Escanaba graduate Nicole Kamin scored 20 points and blocked three shots as top-ranked Grand Valley State eliminated the Northern Michigan University women's basketball team, 72-44, in the NCAA Regional Semifinals on Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
The Michigan Tech University hockey team got a goal from Logan Pietila with 9.1 seconds left in the game to beat Minnesota State-Mankato, 4-3, in the CCHA semifinal game Saturday night in Houghton. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of MTU Athletics. (MTU Photo)
