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Sports Flashback Oct. 18-24

Oct. 18, 1966 — The Ishpeming Hematites retained the Great Lakes Conference cross country title with a perfect score of 15 points. They were followed by Gladstone 52, Sault Ste. Marie 113, Newberry 115 and Marquette 174. Ishpeming’s Gordon Leppanen became the individual champion. Gary Ellison was Gladstone’s leader in sixth. He was followed by Steve Schram seventh, Bill Marmalick 11th, John Louis 12th and Jeff Schram 16th. Oct. 22, 1966 — Gary Sample intercepted three passes, helping the Manistique Emeralds pull off a 13-0 upset victory over Marquette in a Great Lakes ...

7,000 Walleye’s released at Kipling Boat Launch

KIPLING — The Bay de Noc Sports Fisherman's Club released over 7,000 Walleye fingerlings here Friday at the Kipling Boat Launch. Of the 7,000 released 50 percent have a chance to make it 15 inches in lenghth. Bill Herbst said that the club would like to thank the Hannahville Indian Community ...

Bowling Results

Young & American E&E Furniture 47, Circlemcountry.com 46, Spare Time 38, Red Hots 35, Lucky Strikes 34. H.T.G. — Spare Time 333 H.T.S. — Circlemcountry.com 909 H.I.S. — Dave Moran 464, Rhonda Imeson 427 Three high games — Men: Matt Moras 195, Ross Craig 173, Matthew Buchmiller 172. Women: Rhonda Imeson 151, Abby Dubord 116, Andria Thompson 115.

U.P. Scores

Thursday’s games Football 11-player Iron Mountain 21, Negaunee 20 Eight-player St. Ignace 62, Central Lake 40 Soccer District final Division 1 Marquette 1, Petoskey 0 Volleyball Escanaba 3, Menominee 0 Cheboygan 3, Manistique 2 Rapid River 3, Rock Mid Peninsula 1 Carney-Nadeau 3, Hannahville 0 Ishpeming 3, Powers North Central 0 Munising 3, Stephenson 0 Crystal Falls Forest Park 3, Felch North Dickinson 0 Kingsford 3, Marquette 0 West Iron County 3, L’Anse 0 Calumet 3, Painesdale Jeffers 0 Hancock 3, Houghton 0 Baraga 3, Bessemer ...

Norse runners tested at Jayhawk Invitational

MUSKEGON, MI – The Norse Cross Country Teams had a change of schedule and participated in the Jayhawk Invitational hosted by Muskegon Community College on Saturday. In a mix of two-year and four-year teams competing the women finished 14 out of 19 teams while the men finished 14 out of 16 teams. The change of schedule provided some challenges for the Norse harriers as they were not prepared for the terrain they encountered but still met the challenge head on. On the women's side Grace VanWormer (SO, Garden, MI) continued to cut big chunks of time off of her season best. She came in ...

Prep Schedule Oct. 23

Tonight’s games Football Superior Central at Rapid River, 7 p.m. Escanaba at Gladstone, 7 p.m. Menominee at Bark River-Harris, 7 p.m. Manistique at Ishpeming Westwood, 7 p.m. Saturday’s games Cross country U.P. Finals at Houghton, 11 a.m. Volleyball Bay College vs. Harper College at Alverno College, 1 p.m. Bay College at Milwaukee Area Tech, 3 p.m.