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Gold Medal Classic ready for action this week

HERMANSVILLE — The Frank Rodman Community Club in Hermansville takes center stage beginning Wednesday evening, as the 87th Gold Medal Classic independent basketball tournament tips off. With 71 teams entered for 2026, the historic tournament will run until March 22, making Meyer Township ...

No. 15 Huskies earn No. 3 seed in Midwest Region; will face Lake Erie

HOUGHTON — The No. 15 Michigan Tech Huskies men's basketball team is headed to North Canton, Ohio, as the No. 3 seed in the Midwest Regional Tournament, and will face the No. 6 seed, Lake Erie, a former GLIAC member. Michigan Tech returns to the NCAA Tournament for the 13th time in program ...

Bring out the brooms

HOUGHTON — With a 5-3 win Friday and a 3-2 win Saturday, the No. 20 Michigan Tech Huskies hockey team swept their CCHA quarterfinal series with the Bowling Green State Falcons at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena. With the wins, the Huskies improved to 23-12-3 overall record. Huskies 3, ...

Copper Kings girls win district title

CALUMET — It was not always pretty, but the Calumet Copper Kings girls basketball team got the job done in the Division 3 District 65 title game over the Westwood Patriots Friday night at home. They won, 38-35. “We did not play our best game,” said Copper Kings coach Charlie ...

No. 15 Huskies fall to No. 25 Lakers in the GLIAC Tournament semifinal

MARQUETTE — For the third time this season, the No. 15-ranked Michigan Tech Huskies men's basketball team fell to the No. 25 Grand Valley State Lakers, this time, by a score of 82-70 in the GLIAC Tournament semifinal game Saturday at Vandament Arena. Michigan Tech (26-6, 16-4) was led by 13 ...

Blue Bolts boys advance to state quarterfinals with win over North Dickinson

NEGAUNEE — Caleb Kentala remembers being in Negaunee watching his dad, Jesse, coaching Dollar Bay to back-to-back regional titles. Jesse looked back even further, to the kindergarten tournaments they went to, the start of watching his son and his friends get better and better. It all came ...