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Black Bears claim regular season title

GARDEN CORNERS — The Big Bay de Noc Black Bears captured the Northern Lights League regular-season volleyball championship by sweeping both ends of a doubleheader from the Paradise Rockets here Wednesday night. They took the opener 25-4, 25-8 and nightcap 25-6, 25-13. “This season truly has exceeded my expectations,” Big Bay coach Angie Carley said. “We came into this season looking at it as a building year with how young and green our team was, and despite that, we walked away with a regular-season championship for the Northern Lights League. Big Bay senior Payton Pederson ...

Broncos overcome early sting from Purple Hornets to improve to 5-1

HARRIS — It took a little while for fifth-ranked Bark River-Harris to get untracked in its homecoming football game here Friday night. The Broncos, coming off last week’s 49-14 loss to perennial power Pewamo-Westphala at Petoskey, were trailing the L’Anse Purple Hornets 12-8 after the first quarter of this WestPAC Iron Conference match-up. BR-H, however, answered in a big way en route to a 46-18 victory. “Personally, I would attribute that to homecoming,” Broncos’ coach Caleb Adams said. “It cut our practice time down. We have to work on our passing. We saw that ...

Mustangs fall to Miners in 8-man action

WAKEFIELD — They threatened, but did not score. The Munising Mustangs failed to convert in the red zone here on a rainy Saturday afternoon while dropping a 32-0 football decision to the Gogebic Miners. Munising drove to the Miners’ nine-yard line on its opening possession, but couldn’t find the end zone against a defense that bent but didn’t break in this non-conference contest at Cardinal Field. The Mustangs put together another drive in the second stanza, but stalled on the Gogebic 20. By then they were trailing 12-0. “We couldn’t figure out the red zone which was a ...

U.P. Scores

Friday’s games Football 11-player Escanaba 69, Sault Ste. Marie 34 Menominee 43, Gladstone 6 Bark River-Harris 46, L’Anse 18 Manistique def. West Iron County, forfeit Iron Mountain 34, Gwinn 6 Kingsford 35, Hancock 6 Calumet 34, Houghton 13 Negaunee 36, Ishpeming Westwood 14 Marquette 34, Alpena 21 Eight-player Powers North Central 56, Ironwood 6 Lake Linden-Hubbell 58, Rapid River 16 Ontonagon 26, Ishpeming 22 Crystal Falls Forest Park 34, Norway 26 Felch North Dickinson 74, Stephenson 56 Rudyard 46, Brimley 6 Indian River Inland Lakes 16, ...

Today in Sports Oct. 5

1900 — Britain’s Harry Vardon wins the U.S. Open golf title, beating J.H. Taylor with a 313 total at the Chicago Golf Club. 1985 — Eddie Robinson becomes college football’s winningest coach as Grambling beats Prairie View A&M 27-7. It’s Robinson’s 324th career victory, one more than Paul “Bear” Bryant had before he retired from Alabama after the 1982 season. 1991 — Fresno State ties an NCAA record for most points in a quarter, with 49 in the second period as it pounds New Mexico 94-17. Fresno State’s Derek Mahoney ties an NCAA record with 13 extra points. 1994 — ...

Eskymos demolish Blue Devils to improve to 2-4

ESCANABA — It was an offensive display for the Escanaba Eskymos in their 69-34 triumph over the Sault Ste Marie Blue Devils in a Big North Conference game here Friday. Escanaba got on the board first with 11:21 to go in the first quarter as senior quarterback Alex Ison took it 57 yards to ...