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Prep Schedule Sept. 18

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Today’s games Soccer Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Hannahville, 3 p.m. Big Bay de Noc at Beaver Island, 4:30 p.m. Volleyball Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Hannahville, 4:30 p.m. Big Bay de Noc at Beaver Island, 6:30 p.m. Football Petoskey at Escanaba, 7 p.m. Gladstone at Bark River-Harris, 7 p.m. Munising at Powers North Central 7 p.m. Gogebic at Stephenson, 7 p.m. Manistique at West Iron County, 7 p.m. Saturday’s games Volleyball Big Bay de Noc at Beaver Island, 8:30 a.m. Escanaba at Rudyard Invitational, 9 a.m. Carney-Nadeau at Crystal Falls Forest ...

Wolves look to build with young team

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CARNEY — The Carney-Nadeau Wolves are making do with very young cross country teams this season. Their boys’ team includes six sophomores, one freshman and a seventh-grader. The girls are represented by a trio of eighth-graders. Third-year sophomore Lane Mellen, who is the boys’ pacesetter, placed fifth in the Kingsford Invitational at the Iron Mountain City Park Sept. 8. The Wolves resume in the Stephenson Invitational on the Dale Fountain Memorial course at Banat Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. (CDT). Other schools entered are Escanaba, Florence-Niagara, Wis., Crystal Falls Forest ...

Today in Sports Sept. 18

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1899 — The Cincinnati Open begins. It is the oldest tennis tournament in the United States still played in its original city and is now known as the Cincinnati Masters & Women’s Open. 1938 — The Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers 2-0. Left end Dick Plasman tackles Arnie Herber in the end zone in the fourth quarter for the win. 1946 — Joe Louis knocks out Tami Mauriello in the first round at Yankee Stadium in New York to retain the world heavyweight title. 1960 — Goose Gonsoulin intercepts four passes to lead the Denver Broncos to a 27-21 win over the Buffalo ...

Ashdeyn Gerow uses late surge to take top honors at Stephenson Invite

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BANAT — A late surge made a difference for Rock Mid Peninsula sophomore Ashdeyn Gerow here Wednesday as he earned top honors in the Dale Fountain (Stephenson) Invitational cross country meet. Gerow covered the 3.1-mile course in 18 minutes, 8.5 seconds. He was followed by Kingsford senior Cavan Mulligan at 18:30.3 and Menominee freshman Bradley Klann (18:33.7). “This meet was definitely the toughest,” Gerow said. “There was a lot of anxiety and I had kind of a negative feeling before the meet, which is something I normally don’t do. I was in kind of a freefall on the last ...

The leaves are changing

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“Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons on our coats, blowing through the letters that we wrote, blowing through the books upon our shelves, it’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves," – Bob Dylan Walking along an old dirt road, I feel the winds of autumn swirling around the tree ...