The Marquette High School boys soccer team beat the heat over the weekend and opened the season by winning four soccer matches in lower Michigan. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos (courtesy of MSHS Varsity Soccer)
Gleason, Wisconsin’s Justin Mondeik passed Mike Lantange for the lead with six circuits remaining and went on to win the late model feature at Norway Speedway Friday. Pembine, Wisconsin’s Anthony Schiefelbein sweated out multiple caution periods and went on to win the super stock feature. Click the above headline for details.
The North Central High School football team is ready to try defending last winter's state championship as practice has begun for the 2021 season. The Jets lost eight seniors off last year's team, but returns the core bunch that went went undefeated in 2020-21. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and listen to player interviews.
The Copper Country's Jiesung Choi won the 2021 Upper Peninsula Men's Golf Association championship on Sunday in Escanaba. The 2020 Houghton High School graduate led all four rounds to collect the F.H. Hood Trophy. Choi is a member of the Saginaw Valley State University golf team. Gladstone's Terrace Bluff Country Club won the Team Trophy.
Justin Mondeik of Gleason, Wisconsin, and Joey Pontbriand of Norway were two of the big winners at Norway Speedway Friday night. Mondreik won the late model feature and Pontbriand rallied to win the super stock feature. Click the above headline for all the winners.
The Escanaba High School football team has begun practice after surviving a 2020 COVID season in which the Eskymos played only two regular season games, and none at home. Click the above headline for photos, videos, from Tuesday's practice.
The Gladstone Braves held their first practice of the 2021 football season on Monday. The Braves have a tough schedule this year, with non-conference games against Gaylord, Elk Rapids, Sault Ste. Marie, and Calumet, to go along with the Great Northern Conference games. Click the above headline for photos, videos interviews.
Teams participating in all nine sports for which the Michigan High School Athletic Association sponsors postseason tournaments – featuring more than 100,000 student athletes statewide – will be allowed to begin practice Monday. Click the above headline for details.
2020 track champion Dan Lindsley of Vulcan won the caution-free 50 lap late model feature at Norway Speedway Friday. Ryan Wender won the super stock after his 14-year-old son, Tony, won the heat. Click the above headline for details.
The Central Collegiate Hockey Association on Thursday announced its compaosite schedule for the 2021-22 season. Northern Michigan University plays the most home games of any conference team. Click the above headline for all of the details.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association member schools are preparing to begin fall sports practices next Monday, and they're also preparing for hot weather. Click the above headline to read details, and the MHSAA's heat protocols.
The Finlandia University volleyball team will be holding a camp for 9th thru 12th grade, Wednesday. It will be from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Paavo Nurmi Center. Click the above headline for details.
Longtime assistant director Nate Hampton has retired after 32 years on staff with the Michigan High School Athletic Association and 50 serving in education and educational athletics. Click the above hesdline to read details of his career.
The high school football careers officially came to an end for 80 Upper Peninsula graduated seniors as the U.P. Football All-Star Game was held at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline to read details. (Xcel Photo)
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 highlight of day three for the U.P. All-Star football players Wednesday was the Skills Challenge. Events included the Fastest Man (40 yard dash), the Strongest Man (Bench Press-225 lbs), Quarterback Challenge, Receiver Challenge, Punting and Field Goal Kicking. Click the above headline to see who were on top.
The Norway Minor Little League All-Stars (age 9-10) pulled out a dramatic 1-0 win over Midland Northeast in the state semifinals Tuesday afternoon at Marion Park. Landon "Donny" DeBakker threw a no-hitter, and got three straight outs in the final inning after the bases were loaded with no hits. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Football All-Star Week is under way in Marquette, as nearly 80 recently-graduated high school seniors checked in at the Superior Dome for a week of practices and other events before Saturday's big game. Click the above headline for details.
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.
