HOUGHTON — The Portage Lake Little League Board voted to cancel the 2020 baseball and softball seasons because of the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was announced Wednesday afternoon by league president Wes Frahm. The lost season joins an ever-growing list of local events and activities ...
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Finlandia University has joined the Capital Athletic Conference. Finlandia announced the move on Tuesday, the effective date of the university’s inclusion to the CAC. Finlandia joins other ACAA members in the CAC, including UC-Santa Cruz, Mills, Mount Mary, Pine ...
LAKE LINDEN — Lake Linden-Hubbell High School seniors Jamie Hendrickson and Carter Crouch received the school’s top athlete award. Hendrickson and Crouch were named the female and male recipients of the Outstanding Girl and Boy Senior Athlete Awards in a recent virtual ceremony at ...
CALUMET — Calumet High School seniors Alex Studebaker and Andrea Kariniemi won the school’s top student-athlete honors. The duo were named the male and female recipients of the George Gipp All-American Award. Studebaker earned nine letters for the Copper Kings, including two in track, ...
EWEN — Gary Fors was one of those players a basketball coach dreams of having. He had the size (6-foot-5, 200 pounds) and agility that every team needs in the trenches. And the Ewen-Trout Creek product could score inside or out and rebound with the best of them. “Gary Fors was the ...
The WCHA will be a team short this season. Alabama-Huntsville eliminated its hockey program on Friday as a part of spending cuts resulting from COVID-19, the university said. The university said the decision would take immediate effect. UAH eliminated the men’s and women’s tennis ...
HANCOCK — Anthony Willey (Fox Lake, Ill.) has committed to play for the Finlandia University baseball team. Willey joins Jake Amshey (Marne, Mich.), Jonah Hunter (Fort Worth, Texas), Nick Savoie (Iowa, La.), Chase Sides (Millport, Ala.) and Jacob Wade (Southaven, Ms.) in the second wave of ...
HANCOCK — Chase Sides (Millport, Ala.) has committed to play for the Finlandia University baseball team. Sides joins Jake Amshey (Marne, Mich.), Jonah Hunter (Fort Worth, Texas), Nick Savoie (Iowa, La.) and Jacob Wade (Southaven, Ms.) in the second wave of the 2021 recruiting class. There ...
The popular Motorcycle Hillclimb in South Range has been postponed to September 19. The event that draws fans and racers from throughout the Midwest was scheduled to happen on June 20. The Mid America Snow and Terrain Expert Racers hillclimb has its origins in the 1970s and 80s. For years the ...
HANCOCK — Ronald Kelly (Houston, Texas) has committed to play for the Finlandia University men’s soccer team. “I can’t wait for Ronald to get on campus” said Finlandia head coach Scott Chrysafidis. “He is a very physical player, which is going to be a huge benefit for our ...
HOUGHTON — Herman Gundlach had a long and colorful career, first on the football field, and later in other endeavors. But the Houghton High product always made his mark in whatever he was doing. The late Gundlach, better known as “Winks” to his friends, had a prolific athletic career ...
HANCOCK — Tyler Perkins (Janesville, Wis.) has committed to play for the Finlandia University men’s hockey team. “I’m very excited to hit the ice for Finlandia in the fall and to get my education started at a great school. (Finlandia) Coach (Joe) Burcar reached out to me not long ...
HANCOCK — Joslynnn Perala has committed to play for the Finlandia University volleyball team. Perala had a very strong four-year career at Lake Linden-Hubbell. As a senior, she was Copper Mountain Conference MVP, All-Copper County Division First team and All-U.P. Division 4 honorable ...
HANCOCK — Chris Beyer (Appleton, Wis.) has committed to play for the Finlandia University men’s hockey team. “I chose Finlandia because of the various majors they offer students,” Beyer said. “Myself being an outdoors person, I liked the demographics of the school as well as the ...
HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech volleyball coach Matt Jennings has added a transfer and freshman to his 2020 incoming class. Setter Lina Espejo-Ramirez comes to Houghton from Midland College in Texas. Defensive specialist Leiya Rybicki, a native of Freeland, follows in her parents' and brothers' ...
HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech Nordic ski coaches Tom and Kristen Monahan Smith are adding three women and two men to the Huskies for the 2020-21 season. The incoming class is represented by student-athletes from Wisconsin, Utah, Sweden, Minnesota, and Finland. “Our incoming class will ...
HANCOCK — Jonah Hunter has committed to play for the Finlandia University baseball team. Hunter, of Fort Worth, Texas, joins Nick Savoie (Iowa, La.) and Jacob Wade (Southaven, Ms.) in the second wave of the 2021 recruiting class. There are 10 total players so far in the class. “Jonah ...
PAINESDALE — If you ever wanted to have an auspicious debut in sports, it would be tough to top the one Tony Bukovich had. In his first game for the Detroit Red Wings in 1945, the late Painesdale native scored a goal in his first shift on the ice. He also had the chance to play in a ...
CALUMET — Calumet High School senior Nick Djerf accepted a congressional appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy this fall. Djerf, a three-sport Copper Kings athlete earning nine letters, will play football, club hockey and run track at the academy. Djerf had a 3.96 grade-point ...
HANCOCK — Bryce Tracey has committed to play for the Finlandia University men’s hockey team. “I’m excited to start my college experience,” Tracey said. “I have a quote that I live by every day, ‘Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.’” Tracey, a forward from ...