The Gladstone Indians American Legion Baseball team had the lead for most of the game Friday as the Firecracker Tournament began with a game against Watertown, Wis. But the Wisconsin boys put together a pair of four-run innings at the end to snatch away a 9-5 win at Pederson Ballpark. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team opened the Marinette Firecracker Tournament on Friday with an impressive 7-3 win over the Green Bay Preble Shockers. The Blues had lost to the Shockers at the Escanaba tournament last week. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Northern Michigan University Athletic Department presents the 2020-21 Wildcat Awards. For the second straight year, the awards will be presented exclusively through the NMU Athletics website and social media accounts. Click the above headline for details.
Northern Michigan University has a total of 173 student-athletes that were named to the 2020-21 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference All-Academic and All-Academic Excellence teams. Click the above headine to see the 173 kids who made the list.
The Marquette Blues American Legion Baseball team scored five runs in the fourth inning and Justin Wenk made it stand up on the mound in a 6-1 Blues win over the Escanaba Cubs on Wednesday. Marquette wrapped up its six games in Delta County with a 3-3 record. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, and hear interviews.
The Gladstone Indians American Legion Baseball team won its first game of the season Tuesday night with a 5-2 win over the Marquette Blues at Don Olsen Field. Click the above headline for details, interviews, and photos taken by Diane LaChance.
The Northern Michigan University Athletic Department and Wildcat hockey are planning to welcome back fans to the Berry Events Center for the 2021-22 season. Click the above headline for details.
Andrew Paupore threw a complete-game six-hitter as the Iron Mountain American Legion baseball team beat Marinette, Wis., 3-1 on Sunday to win the annual Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The nine-team Gregg Johnson Memorial American Legion Baseball Tournament is down to its final four teams heading into Sunday's action, with two Upper Peninsula teams joining two Wisconsin teams in the semifinals. Click the above headline to see photos, videos.
The Rudyard High School softball team rallied from a 7-1 deficit to beat Holton in a dramatic state semifinal game Friday at Michigan State University. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. (MHSAA Photo)
The Eastern Upper Peninsula Wood Ducks American Legion Baseball team won twice at the Gregg Johnson Memorial Tournament on Friday in Delta County. The Wood Ducks beat the Copper Country Flames, 9-5, and then turned back the host Escanaba Cubs, 7-1. Click the above headline for photos and videos from both games.
Hunter Lancour threw a complete-game one-hitter with eleven strikeouts, and had the walk-off base hit in the seventh inning, leading Escanaba Cubs opened the season with a 3-2 win over the Gladstone Indians. Click the above headline to see photos, videos, interviews.
Bay College Administration and Athletic Director Matt Johnson announced that the Board of Trustees has approved the addition of Volleyball as the seventh sport to the Norse Athletics Program. Click the above headline for details.
Northern Michigan University has selected Andy Keller as head Nordic ski coach. Keller served as associate head coach during the 2020-21 season and was the Wildcats' Assistant Coach for three years prior. Click the above headline to read details.
After swapping the lead and trading paint with Jason Zdroik for several laps, former track champion Jesse Aho snuck past Zdroik for the lead on the final lap and went on to win the B Mod feature at Eagle River Speedway Tuesday night. Click the above headline for details.
American Legion Baseball is back after the 2020 season was cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus. While an Upper Peninsula league was set up and a champion was crowned, the usual statewide competition under the Legion banner didn't happen. Monday night, the Escanaba Junior Cubs beat the Marquette Junior Reds in two games. Click the above headline for photos and videos from those games.
Morgane Metraux of Lausanne, Switzerland is the winner of the LPGA Symetra Tour Island Resort Championship at the Sweetgrass Golf Course. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team had one bad inning on defense, and stranded eleven baserunners on offense, and lost to the Muskegon Oakridge Eagles, 5-2, in the MHSAA Division Two regional championship game on Saturday at Alma College. Click the above headline to read details, and see photos and videos taken by Johnny Schlenvogt.
The 2021 high school girls softball playoffs are winding down across the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline to see the scores/schedules.
The 2021 high school baseball playoffs have wrapped up for Upper Peninsula teams. Click the above headline to see scores.
Canadian Maude-Aimee LeBlanc and American Karen Chung are tied for the lead after the first round of the Symetra Tour Island Resort Championship golf tournament at the Sweetgrass Golf Course. Both shot a seven-under-par on the opening 18 holes of the tournament. Kristin Coleman is one stroke back in third place at minus six. Four other golfers are tied for fourth at 5 under par. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team pulled out another dramatic win on Wednesday, beating the Petoskey Northmen, 3-2, in the MHSAA Division Two regional semifinal at Petoskey's Turcott Field. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Norway Knights scored five runs in the third inning to break a 1-1 tie and they cruised to a 9-4 win over the Ironwood Red Devils Wednesday in a MHSAA Division Four regional semifinal game in Bark River. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba High School baseball team hoisted its first district championship trophy since 2016 on Saturday after a posting a dramatic 5-4 win over Cheboygan in the semifinals, and then topping Marquette, 9-5, in the championship game. Click the above headline to read details, see photos and videos, and listen to interviews.
The Gladstone Braves won their seventh straight baseball district championship on Friday, beating the Newberry Indians, 18-1, and then holding off the Superior Central Cougars, 6-3, under windy and hot conditions in Eben Junction. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos won their first MHSAA Division One boys tennis championship in 14 years on Wednesday. They waited out two very long rain delays to end Negaunee's multi-year reign. Click the above headline to read more details.
The Escanaba Eskymos football team’s lineman camp wrapped up on Wednesday. It was put on by Michigan Tech University assistant coach Jace Daniels, and former Central Michigan/Finlandia Coach Travis Wilzius. They are both former Eskymos. The Escanaba HIgh School coaching staff also helped to instruct at the two-day camp.
The Marquette Redmen scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning Tuesday night and beat the Kingsford Flivvers, 4-2, in Quinnesec. It was a double win for the Redmen as the MHSAA has moved the rest of the district tournament from Quinnesec to Marquette this Saturday. Click the above headline for details.
The Escanaba Eskymos and Norway Knights played a tune-up game on Tuesday to close the regular season. The Eskymos got two-run base hits from Riley Lamb and Nick Kolich, and three pitchers combined to throw a three-hitter as Escanaba beat Norway, 5-1, at Marion Park. Click the above headline for details, photos taken by Sheila Olsen.
Northern Michigan University National Training Site Greco-Roman wrestlers Benji Peak, Alston Nutter and David Stepanian topped the podium at the U23 Nationals yesterday in Lincoln, Nebraska. All three earned a spot on USA Wrestling's U23 World Team and will compete in Belgrade, Serbia this November. Click the above headline for details.
