ESCANABA — Momentum played a major role in the second game of a softball doubleheader here Thursday as the Escanaba Eskymos rode that to a 10-5 triumph over the Negaunee Miners The Miners hung on for a 3-2 victory in the opener. Negaunee led 4-2 in the fifth inning of the nightcap before ...

ESCANABA — The Escanaba boys tennis team returned to their home courts Thursday afternoon as they defeated Westwood 6-2. Escanaba junior Brett Swanson had a good day at No. 2 doubles as he defeated Westwoods’s Evan Hebert 6-0, 6-0. “It was a little windy today but it was good ...

ESCANABA — The Escanaba Eskymos overcame a slow start to defeat the Kingsford Flivvers 11-0 here Wednesday. The Eskymos scored all 11 of their runs in the fourth inning. Lennox Peacock started the scoring with an RBI-single and Cannon Arnt and Max LeDuc each drew a walk to score a run.Alex ...

HERMANSVILLE — Former Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson sometimes said ‘hits don’t hurt you. Walks and errors, those will kill you.’ Powers North Central and Stephenson received a combined 21 free passes in the second game of a baseball doubleheader here Wednesday night. Four ...

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 ...

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 ...