Lillie Johnson scored 25 points, crossing 1,000 for her Gladstone Braves career, as she helped her team post a 51-47 win over the defending state champion Ishpeming Hematites Tuesday night in Gladstone. Click the above headline for details, and post-game reaction.
Jordan Guenette scored 20 points and the Negaunee Miners used strong defense to beat the Escanaba Eskymos, 64-42, Tuesday night in Escanaba. Click the above headline to see photos and videos, and to listen to post-game interviews.
Cale Carter scored with 32.5 seconds left in overtime to lift the Escanaba High School hockey team to a 3-2 win over the Traverse City Central Trojans on Saturday at the Centre Ice Arena. It ended an intense up-and-down battle that saw 76 shots on goal and multiple huge saves by both goaltenders. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Northern Michigan redshirt junior Dylan Kuehl surpassed the 1,000 career-points plateau and scored a season-high 26 points as the Wildcats defeated the Concordia University Wisconsin Falcons 70-58 on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Escanaba Hgh School hockey team got a 33-save performance from Cully Hayes and three different Eskymos scored in a 3-1 win over Traverse City West Friday night as a winter storm raged through northern Michigan. Graham Johnson assisted on all three goals as the Eskymos improved to 3-1 on the season. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team was on the road for Thanksgiving, coming off a bye weekend. In the first game of the road trip, the team lost 4-1 to the Augustana Vikings. Marquette native Jakob Peterson scored his first goal. Click the above headline for details.
Michigan Tech shut out Bowling Green 3-0 Friday at the Slater Family Ice Arena. The Huskies improved to 4-0 on the road and are now 7-4 overall and 5-2 in the CCHA. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team could not follow up on last Friday's emotional win over Marquette, as the Eskymos lost to the Painesdale-Jeffers Jets, 4-2, on Thanksgiving Eve at the Wells Sports Complex. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Nic Williams scored a game-high 27 points, including the triple that clinched the game in the final minute, as the Bay College Norse beat the Gogebic Community College Samsons, 86-80, Tuesday night in Ironwood. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team shook off a sluggish start to dominate Gogebic Community College, 88-51, Tuesday night in Ironwood. Menominee's Anna Axtell had another great game, scoring 27 points, and the Bay defense held GCC to just four points in the third quarter. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
Gogebic Community College basketball coach Dennis Mackey was honored Tuesday night for crossing the 500-win mark in his 37-year career at the Ironwood school. The school named the basketball court inside the Lindquist Center after Mackey in a ceremony attended by hundreds. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
The Escanaba High School boys basketball team, playing without two of its top players, managed to beat the Alpena Wildcats, 57-49, in the season opener Monday night. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and post-game interviews.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team built a 17-point lead and then held on for an 86-80 win over Lake Region State College (North Dakota) Saturday night. Joe Ofori and Nic Williams both scored 22 points to lead Bay. Click the above headline for videos, potos, interviews.
The Crystal Falls Forest Park Trojans won the school's fifth football state championship on Saturday, beating the Morrice Orioles, 42-20, at the Suerior Dome. Click the above headline for details, courtesy of the Michigan High School Athletic Association. (MHSAA Photo)
A big second quarter pushed the Bay College Norse Women's Basketball Team over the Lake Region State Royals of North Dakota on Saturday afternoon. The game, which was held at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, finished with a final score of 75-67. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team battled hard against two highly-ramked teams this weekend, but took a pair of lossess in Minnesota. The Wildcats lost to third-ranked Minnesota State-Moorhead, 82-71, on Friday, and then fell to sixth ranked Minnesota-Duluth, 79-67, on Saturday. Click the abve headline for details (NMU photo)
The Pickford High School football team got off to a great start in the state championship game Saturday in the Superior Dome, but fell to the Deckerville Eagles in dramatic fashion, 30-28. Click the above headline for details, photos, courtesy of MHSAA.
The Escanaba High School hockey team ended nine years of frustration against their biggest rival Friday night, beating Marquette, 3-1, at the Wells Sports Complex. The win broke a 17-game losing streak for the Eskymos against the Redmen, and now the Sentinels, dating back to November 26, 2016. Click the above headline for details. (LIzzie Taylor photo)
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assoication on Friday evening unveiled the All-U.P. teams for the eleven-man football divisions. And the Iron Mountain Mountaineers cleaned up on most of the major awards. Click the above headline for the details.
In a game that featured blustery wind, driving rain, and chilly temperatures, the Wildcats season came to an end in a 4-1 loss to Drury in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Click the above headline for deatils. (Drury University photo)
The Bay College women's basketball team pulled away from a close game in the second half to beat fellow Upper Peninsula rival Gogebic Community College, 86-55, Wednesday night in Escanaba. The Norse went on a 15-0 run to brek open a four-point game. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association released its All-U.P. football players list Wednesday night for the eight-man divisions. The panel of 15 journalists from across the Upper Peninsula met at Northern Michigan University earlier this week to make the selections. Click the above headline to see the winners.
The Northern Michigan volleyball team beat the Parkside Rangers in the GLIAC Quarterfinals on Wednesday night in Vandament Arena, 3-1, (25-16, 25-15, 25-20, 25-15) to advance to this weekend's Semifinals. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Escanaba High School hockey team cut through the fog, and cut through the Kingsford Flivvers, 9-0, in the season opener Tuesday night in the warm, moist Mountain View Ice Arena. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The NMU women's soccer team completed a feat never done before in program history, becoming back-to-back GLIAC postseason champions with a 3-0 win over Saginaw Valley State Sunday in Marquette. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The MHSAA high school football playoffS are winding down. Click the above headline to see how the U.P. teams are doing.
Julien Smith stepped into a three-pointer near the Northern Michigan bench and sank a deep triple as the final horn sounded, stunning Illinois-Springfield, 85-83, Saturday night in Wisconsin Dells. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team fought off a tough challenge from U.P. rival Gogebic Community College Wednesday night, pulling out an 86-79 win in Escanaba. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, and interviews.
The NMU women's soccer team hosted the Michigan Tech Huskies in the opening round of the GLIAC postseason tournament, turning in a 5-0 win at home to secure home-field advantage for the remainder of the conference postseason. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team came home from a long trip to Iowa empty-handed after taking a 83-77 loss late Saturday night to the Ellsworth Community College Panthers. It was a battle of two nationally-ranked JUCO teams, with the Norse being ranked 14th in the country and the Panthers ranked seventh. Click the above headline for details.
