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Meet the Athlete: Alex Prins

Local Sports

ESCANABA — As the Gladstone Braves prepare for the 2025-26 basketball season, Daily Press sportswriter Adam Hinch got the oppertunity to sit down with Braves sophomore Alex Prins to discuss a various number of topics. Adam Hinch: What got you int basketball? Alex Prins: I started playing ...

Sports Flashback Nov. 23-29

Local Sports

Nov. 24, 1965 — Paul Miller’s 27 points were enough to lead the Escanaba Eskymos to an 82-64 basketball triumph over Marquette. Dave Nyquist added 20 and Jim Boyle tallied 16. Doug LaCoursier scored 23 points, helping the Hermansville Redskins roll past Pembine, Wis. 82-40. Randy ...

Bowhunter kills big, 500-pound U.P. black bear

Outdoors

MARQUETTE — Taxidermist Raymond Caswell of Escanaba killed one of the biggest black bears taken with a bow and arrow in the state during the 2025 season. The bruin he arrowed on the evening of Sept. 16 in Delta County while hunting over bait had a dressed weight of 443 pounds and en ...

Meet the Athlete: Emerson Droubie

Local Sports

IRONWOOD — The Bay Colllege Norse are now six games into their 2025-26 season. Before their matchup with the Samsons Daily Press sportswriter Adam Hinch got the opportunity to speak with Droubie on a various number of topics. Adam Hinch: So Emerson. What made you choose Bay as your college ...

Norse sweep Samsons for second time this seasons

Local Sports

IRONWOOD — A Impending blizzard didn't stop the Bay College Norse from sweeping a doublehearder against Gogebic Community College here Tuesday. The Women won 92-71 and the men picked up a 77-46 victory. In the women's game Samsons guard Hannah Vaughn had eight of her 15 points in the first ...

Manistique boys open swimming season with victory over Marquette

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MANISTIQUE — The Manistique boys opened their swimming diving season on a positive note, earning a 65-58 victory over the Marquette Sentinels Manistique’s girls held their own in a 93-57 loss. “I was very happy,” Emeralds’ coach Parker Birr said. “We had only two weeks to ...