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Today in Sports Sept. 28

1920 — A Chicago grand jury indicts eight members of the Chicago White Sox on charges of fixing the 1919 World Series, known as the “Black Sox Scandal.” White Sox owner Charles Comiskey immediately suspends the eight players. 1940 — Bud Brennan, a spectator at Memorial Stadium, races out of the stands and attempts to tackle Michigan’s Tom Harmon at the 3-yard line. Harmon easily evades Brennan and completes an 86-yard touchdown run, his third return for a touchdown, in a 41-0 rout of California. 1941 — Ted Williams ends the season with a .406 batting average. 1951 — Norm ...

Sentinels sweep Eskymos on three close sets

MARQUETTE — They battled right to the end. Despite all that, the Escanaba Eskymos were unable to avoid dropping a 3-0 (25-22, 25-23, 25-20) volleyball decision to the Marquette Sentinels here Thursday night. For the Sentinels this was a reversal of fortune from the first meeting in Escanaba Aug. 26 when they fell to the Eskymos in straight sets. “They wanted revenge,” Esky coach Bev Ziebell said. “Their student section was huge tonight. We just have to work on eliminating the errors. I think our serve receives were all right and our defense was good, but we couldn’t get ...

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 ...