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Prep Schedule April 24

Today’s games Golf Norway Invitational at Oak Crest, 10 a.m. Track and field Carney-Nadeau at St. Norbert’s Invitational, 4 p.m. Softball Superior Central at Marquette (DH), 4 p.m. Rapid River at Stephenson (DH), 4 p.m. Felch North Dickinson at Bark River-Harris (DH), 4 p.m. Rudyard at Manistique (DH), 4:30 p.m. Baseball Superior Central at Iron Mountain, 4 p.m. Felch North Dickinson at Powers North Central (DH), 4:30 p.m Rudyard at Manistique (DH), 4:30 p.m. Saturday’s games Track and field Manistique at Pickford Invitational, 10:30 ...

Today in Sports April 24

1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and succeeds Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who died in November 1944. 1962 — LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax’s 2nd career 18-strikeout, in a 10-2 win over Cubs in Chicago. 1963 — Bob Cousy ends his 13-year career by scoring 18 points as the Boston Celtics win their fifth consecutive NBA championship, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 112-109 in Game 6. 1967 — The Philadelphia 76ers win the ...

Arnt throws perfect game as Eskymos defeat Braves

ESCANABA — Escanaba senior Cannon Arnt used only 61 pitches for a perfect game as the Eskymos defeated Gladstone 10-0 here Tuesday. That was the best game of his career,” Eskymos coach Scott Hanson said. “To do it against Gladstone is a really big deal and highly impressive and to have ...

Escanaba sophomore Andrew Hamlin breaks 48 year high jump record

GLADSTONE — Sophomore Maggie Karl scaled new heights while helping the Gladstone girls retain their Delta County track and field title here Tuesday. Karl won the pole vault with a school-record leap of 10-2, an inch higher than the previous record by Emily Siebert four years ago. “This ...

Prep Schedule April 23

Today’s games Marquette at Gladstone, 4 p.m. Baseball Negaunee at Escanaba (DH), 4 p.m. Felch North Dickinson at Bark River-Harris, 4:30 p.m. Softball Munising at Bark River-Harris (DH), 4 p.m. Carney-Nadeau at Crystal Falls Forest Park (DH), 4 p.m. Manistique at Iron Mountain (DH), 4:30 p.m. Escanaba at Negaunee (DH), 4:30 p.m. Friday’s games Golf Norway Invitational at Oak Crest, 10 a.m. Softball Mid Michigan College at Bay College (DH), 2 p.m. Rapid River at Stephenson (DH), 4 p.m. Bark River-Harris at Felch North Dickinson (DH), 4 p.m. Superior ...

Record broken

Escanaba sophomore Andrew Hamlin cleared six-and-a-half feet in high jump, breaking a 1978 school record. A full story with details about the track meet are on page B1.