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 NJCAA released the list of Academic All-Americans for the 2020-2021 school year, which included 13 student-athletes from the Bay College Norse Athletic Department. Click the above headline to read more details.
A record 13 members of the Wildcat hockey program have been named AHCA/Krampade All-American Scholars as announced today. Click the above headline for details.
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.
Lake Superior State University has selected veteran collegiate athletics executive and Michigan native David L. Diles as its new director of athletics after conducting a national search. He succeeds Dr. David Paitson, who earlier resigned after four years to accept an assistant professor of sport management position at University of Indianapolis. Click the above headline to read details.
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.
The Escanaba Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) won a district championship Monday night after beating Kingsford, 1-0 and 7-1, to advance to the state tournament in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Dickinson County Greens American Legion Baseball team raced to an 8-0 lead and rolled past the Gladstone Indians 12-5 Sunday night in Gladstone. Blake Julian drove in six runs and Caleb Johnson was in control on the mound for the Iron Mountain-Based team, which used to be called the Golds. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
Zahn Anderson's RBI single in the bottom of the sixth inning helped the Escanaba Major Boys (age 11-12) Little League All-Stars rally past Norway, 6-5, on Sunday. Click the above headline to read detaiils, photos, video highlights.
The Kingsford and Norway Major Little League All-Stars (age 11-12) earned victories over their Delta County rivals in tournament action on Saturday, while the Gladstone Minor Boys (age 9-10) rallied from 12 runs down in the final two innings to stay alive in their tournament. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos.
The Eastern Upper Peninsula Wood Ducks scored seven runs in the final inning Friday to rally past Iron Mountain, 10-6, at Liuna Field in Iron Mountain. The Greens played without nine of their 18 players due to a variety of other commitments. Click the above headline to read details and see photos and video highlights.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team rallied from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Menominee Red Wave, 8-4, Thursday night in Gladstone. It happened after a pre=game ceremomy in which Gladstone player Dayton Bernson was awarded a $500 scholarship named after the late Indians player Christan Groleau. Click the above headline for photos and videos.
The Escanaba Minor girls softball team (age 9-10) won a district championship, beating Norway, 17-0, Thursday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details.
Noah Lancour smacked a pair of two-run homers Monday night to lead the Escanaba Cubs to a 8-5 win over the Gladstone Indians at Don Olsen Field. Lancour, better known by his nickname "Opie" from Andy Griffith fame, had only one home run before Monday, and that was in a Bay College scrimmage game. Click the above headline for photos, videos taken by Brad Landis.
There will be basketball camps held at both Bay College and Finlandia University this summer. Click the above headline to read the details on both.
The Escanaba Cubs and Bark River Bucs American Legion baseball teams waited out a 1 hour, 44 minute rain delay Monday before the Bucs took advantage of Cubs mistakes to post a 9-1 victory at Al Ness Field. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Iron Moumtain American Legion Baseball team picked up two more wins on Friday, beating the Bark River Bucs, 10-2, and then topping a shorthanded Escanaba team, 7-0, at Al Ness Field. Click the above headlime for details, photos, video clips.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion Baseball team got timely hitting and beat the Escanaba Cubs, 5-3, Thursday night at Don Olsen Field. Johnny Soderman hit his first-ever home run as part of the Indians win. Click the above headline for photos, videos.
The Michigan High School Athletic Association is accepting registrations online or by mail for game officials for the 2021-22 school year. Click the above headline for details.
Escanaba high school pitcher Jared Hanson on Monday committed to attend school and play baseball at Central Michigan University. Click the above headline for details.
The Marinette Firecracker American Legion Baseball Tournament was cancelled again on Sunday after all-night rains Saturday night flooded the fields that were already saturated from Saturday morning and afternoon rains. Click the above headline for details.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion baseball team literally mucked it up on Saturday as they played the Manitowoc Legion team in the Marinette Firecracker Tournament. In a 3-hour-12 minute marathon that included time outs to dry the mound and plate, the Indians held on for a 15-12 win. Click the above headline to read details.
The Escanaba Cubs American Legion baseball team scored four runs in the final two innings to beat Marinette, 6-2, late Friday night, in the first game of the Marinette Firecracker Tournament in Wisconsin. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
