ESCANABA — Senior forward Lukas Weaver put the icing on the cake here Monday night as the fourth-ranked Escanaba boys outlasted Marinette 79-73 in a non-conference boys’ basketball game. Weaver scored on a fast break layup in the closing moments, enabling the Eskymos to improve to 8-4. ...

EBEN — Maddy Begovac scored 19 points, leading the Superior Central girls to a 56-39 basketball victory over the Mid Peninsula Wolverines. Sammy Johnson added 18 for the Cougars, who host Bark River-Harris Thursday. The Wolverines host Engadine tonight at 6.

HOUGHTON — The Gladstone girls won 6-of-8 individual events, but settled for third place in a triangular swim meet here Thursday. Houghton won with 112 points, followed by Kingsford 100 and Gladstone 90. “We have a small girls’ team that swims very well, but don’t have the depth ...

Boys Division 1-3 1. Iron Mountain (13-1) 2. Negaunee (12-4) 3. Kingsford (11-2) 4. St. Ignace (14-2) Escanaba (8-4) Others receiving votes: Houghton (11-3) Division 4 1. Painesdale Jeffers (14-0) 2. Munising (14-1) 3. North Central (11-2) 4. Ironwood (11-3) 5. Norway ...

Monday’s games Girls’ basketball Escanaba 65, Gwinn 45 Superior Central 56, Mid Peninsula 39 Bark River-Harris 57, Stephenson 31 Carney-Nadeau 75, North Central 37 Florence, Wis. 58, Norway 33 Houghton 66, Marquette 50 Hancock 66, W. Iron County 33 Calumet 73, Westwood ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — Escanaba graduate Colin Hudson scored a career-high 22 points, leading the Bay College men to a 96-86 basketball triumph over Mid Michigan College Saturday. The victory enabled to Norse to take sole possession of first place in the Michigan Community College Athletic ...