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Volleyball roundup: Blue Bolts fall, Gremlins win

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Dollar Bay falls in five EWEN — The Dollar Bay-Tamarack City Blue Bolts volleyball team fell on the road at Ewen-Trout Creek Thursday night, 26-28, 25-8, 25-29, 26-28, 23-25, to the Panthers. For Dollar Bay, Lillian Pelland-Rippey led all hitters with 20 kills, followed by Hannah Karanen with 16. Ava Nye led from the service line with 14 service points, including a pair of aces. Kiya Kemppainen ended the night with 44 digs, alongside Ellie Keranen, who racked up 34 digs. Sylvie Kentala totaled 57 assists for the match. Houghton take Jeffers in five PAINESDALE — After ...

Huskies fall in weekend opener at Colorado Springs

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Michigan Tech Huskies volleyball team opened its weekend at the Mountain Lion Classic with a five-set loss to the tournament host, the Colorado-Colorado Springs Mountain Lions. Trailing 2-0 after the first two sets, the Huskies won sets three and four to force the fifth, before the hosts won 15-10 in the final frame. "We put up a good fight against a tough team that was in-system for most of the match," Huskies coach Cindy Pindral said after competing against her alma mater. "We didn't really find our groove until about set three, but I'm proud of the ...

Dollison scores for Huskies against Northwood

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CEDARVILLE, Ohio — The Michigan Tech Huskies soccer team fell 3-1 to the Northwood Timberwolves Thursday evening in a neutral-site match at Cedarville. The Huskies tied the game in the first half, but surrendered a pair of second-half tallies. "Tonight was obviously not the result we ...

Houghton boys and girls cross country earn top spots at home

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HOUGHTON — There is something special about racing at home. Just ask the Jeffers Jets and Houghton Gremlins cross country teams as they have both taken top spots while running on their home turf in the first two weeks of the 2026 cross country season. While the Jeffers boys opened with a win ...

Pac-12 football returns 4 years after exodus nearly sent the conference to extinction

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The Pac-12, the self-dubbed "Conference of Champions" with athletic excellence going back more than a century, turned into the conference of ashes. A mass exodus of 10 schools in 15 months left the Pac-12 in tatters, dimming the future of a conference that was once the proud home of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cheryl Miller, Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson, Lisa Leslie, Jackie Joyner-Kersey and many more. League brass and the two remaining schools worked behind the scenes to pull the conference out of a death spiral and now, more than four years since the first two schools left, the Pac-12 is ...

Michigan Tech to Induct 10 into Sports Hall of Fame

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HOUGHTON — Ten individuals will join the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame at an induction ceremony in October. The class of 2026 includes former hockey student-athletes Colin Murphy, Darcy Way, and Wayne Weller, former football players Andy Bonk and Mike Horan, former basketball players Lucy (Dernovsek) Slowik and Jason Marcotte, volleyball player Sarah (Nash) Hurley, endurance athlete Deedra Irwin, and Scott Kieser, who played football and basketball for the Huskies. The new inductees to the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame will be enshrined at a ceremony on campus on Oct. 16. ...