ISHPEMING — It may have been one of the most anticipated games of the season among Upper Peninsula football fans. Calumet and Westwood had two defensive battles on the gridiron last season, the second game a playoff tilt that ended 6-0 in favor of the Copper Kings. With the teams meeting ...
HOUGHTON — The Michigan Tech Huskies are on the road once again this week as they take on the McKendree University Bearcats in Illinois on Saturday. The Huskies enter Week 2 after a 29-14 win over the Hillsdale Chargers a week ago. The Huskies held the Chargers to 160 yards of total offense ...
CALUMET — A strong defense and serving night propelled Calumet to a 3-0 West PAC sweep over Iron Mountain on Thursday. Calumet won by scores of 25-17, 25-8 and 25-14. Despite the Copper Kings winning the night by a convincing 75-31 combined score, the Mountaineers battled the majority of ...
PAINESDALE — The Jeffers Jets came to play Thursday night in front of their hometown fans. They swept the Hancock Bulldogs 3-0 in what head coach Rachel Torp described as their most complete game of the season. “Our defense led the way as we played as a team,” said Jeffers head coach ...
HANCOCK — There wasn’t much of a surprise about Hancock’s rolled Dollar Bay-Tamarack City in a three-set sweep on Tuesday. The Bulldogs won by scores of 25-11, 25-23 and 25-9. The only real surprise for Hancock, against the young Blue Bolts, was a close two-point victory in the second ...
HANCOCK — Finlandia University’s football team will seek a fresh start when it hosts Ripon College Saturday in its home opener. The Lions dropped a 37-7 game last week to Concordia (Wisconsin) last week to open the campaign. Despite the final score, the Lions trailed by only a 3-0 score ...
HANCOCK — Finlandia senior Kirsten L’Esperance was named the American Collegiate Athletic Association Offensive Player of the Week for women’s soccer. L’ Esperance had a strong week in a 6-0 win over Crown on Sept. 5. She scored three goals, including the first three of the game, out ...
Houghton County’s Jesse Aho captured his sixth track championship at a northern Wisconsin dirt stock car track, and his cousin, Alyssa White, took third in the points at a North Dakota track recently. The family ties for both go deeper than being cousins. Aho’s father Dave was one of the ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Houghton boys were very much in the title hunt here Tuesday, but came up a point short to Marquette in the Kingsford Invitational cross country meet. Marquette scored 38 points, followed by Houghton 39 and Gladstone 90. The Marquette girls also won with 51. Kingsford ...
This past Saturday afternoon, I had the opportunity to cover the Ishpeming vs. Lake Linden-Hubbell football game. The meeting of the two schools — only the second time they have ever clashed — served as a clear example of what tradition is all about. The Hematites and Lakes battled each ...
DOLLAR BAY — The Chassell Panthers clawed their way to 3-0 over the Dollar Bay-Tamarack City Blue Bolts on Monday. The straight-set victory (25-11, 25-15, 25-16) was the first for the Panthers on the season. They are now 1-1 on the new season. “We had some really good offense ...
LAKE LINDEN — It was only fitting that Ishpeming and Lake Linden-Hubbell would play a classic football game Saturday afternoon. After all, the Hematites (2-0) and Lakes are two of the most prominent small school programs in the state. But when the dust cleared at Ron Warner Field, ...
HANCOCK — The Finlandia University men’s soccer team suffered a tough 1-0 loss on Saturday afternoon to the Marian University Sabres at McAfee Field. It was the Lions first home game of the season. All of the scoring Saturday occurred within the first two minutes of the game. At the 2:04 ...
HOUGHTON — In football, turnovers will kill you. It’s an axiom that the Houghton Gremlins learned the hard way in their 20-39 loss to the L’Anse Purple Hornets Friday night at home. Both teams entered Week 2 of the season at 0-1. “It feels good to get that first win,” said ...
HOUGHTON — Looking to continue their early-season success as part of the Keweenaw Volleyball Classic, the Michigan Tech Huskies volleyball team turned to their top outside hitters, juniors Olivia Ghormley and MacAulay Petersen, to carry the load, and the duo answered the bell, racking up a ...
NEGAUNEE — The last few times Calumet and Negaunee tangled on the field, they were tight, low-scoring games. Friday’s contest started out that way with the Copper Kings holding a slim lead at halftime, but then Calumet ignited in the second half and emerged with a 30-6 victory. Even ...
IRONWOOD — Both Hancock coach Ramon Sague and Gogebic coach Nick Heikkila said the same thing right after their two teams battled it out in the Copper Division West-PAC Conference home opener at Longyear Field on Friday night. “It was a strange game,” both coaches said. It was strange ...
HOUGHTON — It’s game on for the Michigan Tech Huskies as they open up their 2019 football campaign Saturday on the road in Hillsdale, Michigan against a familiar foe — the Hillsdale College Chargers. According to MTU head coach Steve Olson, the Huskies are ready to go. “Our fall ...
HOUGHTON — When Michigan Tech volleyball head coach Matt Jennings addressed his All-GLIAC setter for the final time Thursday evening, he had one simple message for her: it was time for her to take control. Junior Laura De Marchi took what Jennings said to heart, and with match point on the ...
LAKE LINDEN — It wasn’t until the third set that “real” volleyball took effect as the Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes and the Hancock Bulldogs both struggled early on in the Thursday night matchup. The Lakes opened the game as if it was their third practice not their third game of the ...