ESCANABA — If felt more like a chill of an early fall then it did than the middle of spring here Saturday at the Escanaba Motor Speedway as the Radio Results Network and Delta Fence presented opening night. The sport mod class was full of intrigue as Rick Gustavson spun out Robby Iverson ...
Today’s game Softball Regular season Iron Mountain at Rapid River (DH), 4 p.m. Menominee at Escanaba (DH), 4:30 p.m. Baseball District tournament Division 3 Manistique at Gladstone, 5 p.m. Regular season Escanaba at Norway, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday’s games U.P. Golf Finals Division 1 at Sweet Grass Division 2 at Houghton Division 3 at Watersmeet U.P. Tennis Finals Division 1 at Ishpeming Westwood
GLADSTONE — Junior Braxton Breitenbach went 3 for 4 at the plate to push the Gladstone Braves past Menominee 11-9 in a Great Northern Conference game here Friday. “I felt really good out there today,” Breitenbach said. “It was exciting we are closer as a team then we were at the beginning of the season, but we have some tough games coming up so we need to put our best effort every time out.” Breitenbach had a pair of RBI-singles; the first one came in the first inning to cut the Maroons lead to 3-2. The second one came in the third inning to tie the game at ...
GLADSTONE — Escanaba’s bats got hotter than the weather here Thursday night as they romped past Gladstone 13-0 and 17-6 in a softball doubleheader. The Eskymos unleashed a 17-hit attack in the nightcap which was decided in five innings. The opener went six frames on this sunny, breezy and seasonably-cool evening. “We’re starting to hit the ball real well,” Esky coach Andy Fields said. “We have a lot of good hitters. We don’t have a lot of powers, but we brought our jayvee players which gives us some depth for the post-season.” The second game was tied at five after ...
May 18, 1981 — Stock car racing made a successful return to the Escanaba Raceway and a trio of hometown drivers took the checkered flag in four races within their respective divisions. Duke Gardiner took the 20-lap late model feature ahead of Rick Pepin and Marquette’s Allan Yelle in front of a crowd of approximately 1,500. Dale Peterson passed Tim Peterson in the sixth lap en route to winning the sportsman’s feature and Darrell Gagnon was the hobby stock feature winner, taking the lead in the second lap and holding off Chuck Dubord. May 19, 1981 — The Escanaba boys ...
EBEN JUNCTION — The North Central Jets and Superior Central Cougars each got a taste of victory and defeat here Thursday as the Cougars defeated the Jets 14-2 in game one and fell 3-2 in game two. Jaykob Dahm was in complete command in game one as he allowed two runs on four hits with 10 ...
