ESCANABA — After serving as the interim coach for the final five games of the 2019-20 season, Matt Gregory has officially been hired as Bay College’s next women’s basketball coach. Athletic director Matt Johnson announced the move Friday. Gregory, who served as an assistant coach for ...
ESCANABA — Entering the season, the Escanaba boys knew they had to do something they hadn’t done in a decade if they wanted to have any shot at winning the Great Northern Conference — beat Marquette. As hard as it may be for some to believe, coming into the season, Esky’s last win ...
HARRIS — Lost in the fact that this was the game Carney-Nadeau senior point guard Brett LaFord eclipsed 1,000 career points was that this game was actually really good just by itself. The lead changed hands multiple times and it came right down to the closing minutes in this match-up of ...
RAPID RIVER — The Rapid River boys were on a four-game winning streak, and they were faced with a home game against North Central on Feb. 11. The Rockets fell to the Jets 66-54 in their previous meeting Jan. 20, and they were looking for some revenge. In the first half, it looked like the ...
RAPID RIVER — It was a season of records for the Hannahville boys. Earlier in the season, the team eclipsed the U.P. record for most 3-pointers made in a game with 24. Led by former Bark River-Harris girls coach Josh Eagle, the Soaring Eagles finished their season 16-5 and with the ...
RAPID RIVER — There are a lot of things in sports that intrigue people, which is why they have so many fans. No matter what level of competition, one thing that always gets fans excited is when one team is considered the better team, but the other team has the best player. That’s exactly ...
ST. NICHOLAS — It was a clash of two teams going in the opposite direction as Mid Peninsula hosted Carney-Nadeau on Feb. 7. Mid Pen had just come off a 64-63 overtime loss to Superior Central, while the Wolves were riding a three-game winning streak after taking down North Central 53-52 in ...
GLADSTONE — When it comes to basketball in Delta County, it doesn’t get any better than Escanaba and Gladstone battling for a district championship. The Escanaba and Gladstone girls met for the third time of the season March 6 in Gladstone with a district title on the line, and both teams ...
MENOMINEE — Although Escanaba’s win over Gladstone in the district final will never be forgotten in Delta County, Gladstone’s shocking 46-45 upset win over Menominee at the buzzer will never be forgotten throughout the entire U.P. That’s why it gets the nod at No. 1 here. Not only ...
HANNAHVILLE — After some difficult seasons in the Skyline Central Conference, Big Bay de Noc made a big change this year by migrating to the Northern Lights League. In addition to looking to make a splash during their first season in a new league, the Black Bears were looking to finish on ...
ESCANABA — In the first of three match-ups between Gladstone and Escanaba this season, the first one played in Escanaba back on Dec. 27 can definitely be argued as the best. Walking into the Christmas break match-up, Escanaba sat at 3-3 for the season and Gladstone was 2-2. It was a game ...
CARNEY — It’s not often you would consider a 32-30 basketball game a great game. But when you consider it was a district opener between two arch-rivals who gave it everything they had and it came down to the final shot, it makes it worthy of checking in at No. 6 on this ...
CARNEY — High school basketball games are 32 minutes long, but they’re often defined in just a few seconds. For a few players, there are select moments that will forever be remembered. Mid Peninsula junior forward Allyson Lancour wasn’t a starter for the Wolverines, nor was the plan for ...
ESCANABA — If there were any doubts about how good the Escanaba girls could be this past basketball season, they were quickly answered in just their third game back on Dec. 10 in a 50-48 win over Negaunee. This one showcased all the ingredients they would use to be successful the rest of ...
TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021 on Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation that the games could not go ahead as scheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The International Olympic Committee made the decision after speaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...
ESCANABA — Big Bay de Noc senior point guard Meagan Yonker was named the Northern Lights League Player of the Year by the league’s coaches recently after leading the Black Bears to a regular season league title and a conference tournament title in their first year in the league. Yonker ...
POWERS — On Dec. 10, the Mid Peninsula girls proved their mettle with a tough, one-point road win, 43-42, over North Central. It was the Wolverines’ second one-point road win in a row after they edged Carney-Nadeau, 46-45, at the buzzer on Dec. 6. With the win over North Central, the ...
HARRIS — At the time this game was played back on Jan. 10, nobody knew the Carney-Nadeau girls were going to be in the early stages of a 14-game winning streak. Early in the season, this game was considered a coin flip. What it ended up being was an early showcase of just how good the ...
HARRIS — The Mid Peninsula girls had just come off their third loss — a hard one against North Dickinson, 66-30, Jan. 17 — and Bark River-Harris was looking to break out of its funk after a crushing 46-45 home loss to Gwinn. When this one was all said and done, it was the Wolverines that ...
“Someday I think I’d like to paint a seascape, if they ever get the ocean to stand still,” – Tom T. Hall — — — MARQUETTE — Back in the shadowed corners and cobwebbed shelves of my mind rests a little cabin of modest construction that sat along the sandy shores of Lake ...