MARQUETTE — They may not have been selected Most Valuable Players, but a trio of Escanaba area athletes played important roles in helping the Team Black romp past the Team Red 56-7 in Upper Peninsula All-Star football game here Saturday. Two Michigan Tech football recruits had an impact in ...

Houghton pitcher Romi Mattson earned the win in the pitcher’s circle for Old Bats of Michigan Made in their first victory of the season Monday in the Copper Country Women’s Fastpitch softball league. She struck out 12 in a complete game win. She also had a timely hit to help out her own ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...