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Prep Schedule Sept. 26

Today’s games Cross country Bay College High School Invitational at Flat Rock, 11:30 a.m. Soccer Big Bay de Noc vs. Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Sault Ste. Marie, noon Football Powers North Central at Lake Linden-Hubbell, 1:30 p.m. Monday’s games Cross country Manistique at St. Ignace Invitational, 3:30 p.m. Volleyball Big Bay de Noc, Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Kinross Maplewood Baptist, 3:30 p.m. Montcalm C.C. at Bay College, 6:30 p.m. Iron Mountain at Escanaba, 7 p.m. Girls’ tennis Iron Mountain at Escanaba, 4 p.m.

U.P. Scores

Thursday’s matches Volleyball Marquette 3, Escanaba 0 Kingsford 3, Gladstone 0 Manistique 3, Bark River-Harris 1 Powers North Central 3, Rapid River 1 Menominee 3, Carney-Nadeau 1 Superior Central 3, Rock Mid Peninsula 0 Munising 3, Felch North Dickinson 1 Negaunee 3, Gwinn 1 Crystal Falls Forest Park 3, Stephenson 0 Hancock 3, Chassell 0 Traverse City Central 3, Sault Ste. Marie 0 Soccer Marquette 2, Houghton 2

Sports Flashback Sept. 20-26

Sept. 21, 1966 — Julian Vandecaveye of Perkins was elected president of the Central League. Dave Pelletier of Garden was elected vice-president and statistician and Norm Slough of Rapid River will become secretary-treasurer. Sept. 23, 1966 — The Hermansville Redskins posted a 16-10 baseball triumph over the Alpha Mastodons in a Big Seven Conference match-up. Randy Fochesato and Doug LaCoursier combined on a four-hitter. LaCoursier hit three singles and Fochesato added a triple and single. Sept. 26, 1966 — The Escanaba Eskymos broke into the win column for the first time ...

Meet the Athlete: Mary Kate Tourangeau

ESCANABA — With the Ball College volleyball season in full swing we have another Meet the Athlete. The Norse sit at 8-5 on the season and have won eight of their last nine matches. Today we introduce freshmen setter Mary Kate Tourangeau. Adam Hinch: So Mary Kate how exciting is it to be ...

Norse take down Firebirds to win 8 of last 9 matches

ESCANABA — The Bay College volleyball team has now won eight of their last nine matches as they defeated Kirtland Community College (25-17, 25-19, 22-25, 25-16) in four sets here Wednesday. The Norse were led by a pair of sophomores Lydia Schaal who had 12 kills on the night and Ava Maki ...

Mid Peninsula boys win Munising Invite, Rapid River runners up

MUNISING — The Rock Mid Peninsula cross country program has waited a long time for this. Mid Pen’s boys became Division 3 champs with 126 points in the El Harger Invitational here Wednesday. Rapid River was runner-up at 141. “This is our first win in more than 30 years,” Mid Pen coach Carl Brunngraeber said. “Our program is definitely growing. Ashdeyn (Gerow) PR’d by 11 seconds and Eli Stiglitz really stepped up. We had a really hard day on the hills Monday. These kinds of workouts are hard to schedule because the meets are sometimes pretty close together. This was a ...