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.
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team fell behind by double figures early and couldn't catch up Saturday night, losing to an Ellsworth Community College filled with international students, 79-64, in Iowa. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos, interviews.
The MHSAA regional tournaments are wrapping up across the Upper Peninsula. Click the above headline to see the schedules and scores.
The 14th-ranked Bay College Norse men's basketball team took a tough loss Friday night in a down-to-the-wire game, falling to Iowa Western, 65-64, in Iowa Falls. The Norse led by seven early in the second half, but couldn't finish. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team opened its season with two victories this wweekend in Wisconsin Dells, beating Maryville on Friday and Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
The Northern Michigan University women's basketball team won their season openers this weekend in Wisconsin Dells, beating Lewis University, 53-48, and Thomas More University, 48-46. Click the above headline for details from both games. (NMU phto)
The Bay College women's basketball team had a rough time scoring points early, and a late comeback fell short on Friday with a 53-47 loss to the State Fair (Missouri) Community College Roadrunners at a tournament in Iowa. Click the above headline for photos, videos, interviews.
Sophomore Dax Huuki ran for four touchdowns to lead the Forest Park Trojans to a 34-12 win over the North Central Jets to win the MHSAA Eight Player regional championship Friday night. Lane Gorzinski had two long touchdown runs for NCA to bring the Jets to within 13-12 at halftime, but the Forest Park defense pitched a shutout in the second half. The Trojans advanced to the state semifinals at home against Onekema.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team dropped game one of the Cappo Cup series, 5-0 to Lake Superior State, Friday night in Marquette. Click the above headline for details.
In a thrilling back and forth matchup, the top two women's soccer teams in the GLIAC, Northern Michigan and Grand Valley State, played to a 1-1 draw on Friday, thanks to a late equalizer from Maria Storm. The tie keeps NMU one point ahead of Grand Valley State with one match to go in the regular season. Click the above headline for details. (NMU photo)
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team withstood another challenge on Saturday, and finished its opening weekend with a 2-0 record after a 79-72 win over the Rock Valley (Illinois) Golden Eagles at the Bay College Gym. Click the above headline for details.
Northern Michigan University retired the number 40 basketball jersey of Lisa Jamula-Maki during a ceremony on Sunday before an exhibition game against Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Vandament Arena. She scored 1,699 points between 1987 and 1991, a record that stood for three decades. Click the above headline for photos and interviws.
In the final home game of the 2024 football season, Northern Michigan fell to the No. 2 Ferris State Bulldogs, 55-9, Saturday, at the Superior Dome. Click the above headline for details. (NMU Photo)
Michigan Tech earned a CCHA series sweep of Northern Michigan after a 6-3 victory over the Wildcats on Saturday. NMU held a 3-1 lead after the first period, but the Huskies scored five unanswered goals. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team opened the season Friday night with a tough 60-57 loss to the Jackson College Jets at the Bay College Gym. It was a rematch of the game played last March in the regionals, when Jackson eliminated the Norse. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and videos from the game.
The Bay College Norse men's basketball team opened its season Friday night with a 82-78 win over the Minnesota North Hibbing Cardinals at the Bay College Gym. The 14th-ranked Norse were sluggish for most of the night, but found a way to pull it out as ten different players reached the scoring column. Click the above headline for details, photos, videos.
The Northern Michigan University hockey team lost to the Michigan Tech Huskies, 3-0, Friday night, at the Berry Events Center.Two of Tech's goals came on the power play. Click the above headline for details from both schools. (Michigan Tech photo)
The Bay College Norse women's basketball team opens its season this Friday night against the team that knocked them out of the NJCAA regional tournament last year, the Jackson Jets. Both received votes in the national pre-season poll. Click the above headline for details.
The Northern Michigan University volleyball team took victory from the jaws of defeat after a coach's challenge overturned what would have been a match point for the Michigan Tech Huskies. Instead, NMU pulled out a thrilling 3-2 victory. Click the above headline for details.
The MHSAA Scholar-Athlete Award will again, with Farm Bureau Insurance, present 32 $2,000 scholarships to top student-athletes at member high schools during the 2024-25 school year. Click the above headline for information and how to apply.
The Michigan Tech football team won its 14th-consecutive Miner's Cup with a 17-point second quarter eruption and 19 points scored in the second half in the 39-9 victory over Northern Michigan during Hall of Fame weekend at Kearly Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Click the above headline for details and post-game comments. (Michigan Tech photo)
olan Bink threw four touchdown passes and the Escanaba Eskymos broke a three-year losing streak against the arch-rival Gladstone Braves, 50-7, Friday night at the Marble Athletic Field. Click the above headline for details, and to see photos and video highlights.
The NMU hockey team welcomed the Arizona State Sun Devils to the Berry Event Center for the first time in program history, and the visitors brokw a 1-1 tie late and added and empty-net goal to beat the 'Cats, 3-1. Click the above headline for details. (NMU photo)
The Michigan Tech hockey team suffered its first loss of the season Friday, falling 4-1 to Clarkson in non-conference action from the MacInnes Student Ice Arena. Click the above headline for details. (Michigan Tech Athletics photo, story)
The Iron Mountain High School football team faced its toughest test of the season Thursday night, and the Mountaineers passed the test with flying colors. Iron Mountain raced to a 21-0 lead over the Negaunee Miners and cruised to a 35-14 win in the season finale at Mountaineer Stadium. Click the above headline for details. (Iron Mountain Public Schools photo)
The Northern Michigan women's basketball team will be retiring Lisa Jamula Maki's #40 jersey, its first jersey retirement in program history, on Sunday, November 3 at 4 p.m. in an exhibition against Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Click the above headline for details.
Jaxon Buckley scored four goals and Jett Buckley scored twice as the Kingsford High School soccer team swarmed the Montague Wildcats, 6-0, in the MHSAA regional semifinals Tuesday at Gaylord High School. Click the above headline for details. (Breitung Twp Schools photos)
THe Marquette Sentinels soccer team had its season come to an end Tuesday night with a 402 loss to Fruitport in the MHSAA regional semifinals at Gaylord High School. Click the above headline for details. (Mary Sysko/MSHS photos)
Brandon McMannus kicked a 45-yard field goal as time expired, and Josh Jacobs caught his first-ever receiving touchdown, as the Green Bay Packers beat the Houston Texans, 24-22, Sunday, at Lambeau Field. Click the above headline to see the coverage from RRN Sports.
The Marquette Sentinels boys varsity soccer team hosted the Petoskey Northman for the district championship at the Kaufman Sports Complex Saturday in Marquette. The Sentinels dominated rom start-to-finish, winning, 6-0. Click the abpve headline for details. (Mary Sysko photo)