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Slow start, strong finish

SOUTH RANGE — Going into the bottom of the third inning of Portage Lake Little League minors quarterfinal playoff play, U.P. Ward Orthodontics led 8-3 and appeared to be in control of their own fate. Then the Dean Kangas State Farm bats woke up in a big way. With 14 runs over the next three ...

Copper Country Women’s Fastpitch softball roundup

LAKE LINDEN — Gold Standard's Payton Goldsworthy took on a “Babe Ruthian” status Monday night in Copper Country Women’s Fastpitch softball action as she slugged not one, not two, but three home runs over the fence at the Boneyard. She helped her squad move to 3-0 on the season with a ...

Trio of Huskies named to CSC Academic All-District team

AUSTIN — Michigan Tech Huskies cross country and track & field student-athletes Callen Carrier, Sam Lange and Sophia Rhein have been selected to the CSC Academic All-District Team, announced Tuesday. Carrier, a native of Spring Lake, Michigan, earns his first CSC Academic ...

Five local graduates honored with Hockey is Life scholarship

HANCOCK — The Copper Country Oldtimers doled out five scholarships this year to area high school graduates looking to take the next step in their lives by going to college. Hancock’s Max Heinonen and Mallory Sporalski, along with Houghton’s Chloe Serafin, Jace DeForge, and Ethan Hainault ...

Copper Country Family Dentistry outpaces Keweenaw Chevy 10-8

SOUTH RANGE — In Portage Lake Little League Majors action Thursday, Copper Country Family Dentistry jumped out to a 5-4 lead and kept it through six. They downed Keweenaw Chevy, 10-8. Back-to-back base hits by Family Dentistry's Levi Nordstrom and Landon Kinnunen put two on to start the ...