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Meet the Athlete: Cyler Brunngraeber

ST NICHOLAS — With the 2025-26 boys basketball season underway. The Mid Peninsula Wolverines are coming off a 71-40 win over the Big Bay de Noc Black Bears. Before the Wolverines game against Engadine Daily Press sports writer Adam Hinch got the opportunity to catch up with Cyler Brunngraeber ...

U.P. Scores for Dec. 19

U.P. scores Wednesday’s games Girls’ basketball West Iron County 51, Escanaba 43 Munising 44, Gwinn 35 Gaylord 49, St. Ignace 34 Boys’ basketball Engadine 64, Rock Mid Peninsula 50 L’Anse 77, Watersmeet 43 Houghton 71, Ontonagon 35

Prep Schedule Dec. 19

Today’s games Boys’ basketball Rock Mid Peninsula at Mackinac Island, 1 p.m. Gladstone at Escanaba, 7 p.m. Menominee at Bark River-Harris, 7:30 p.m. Rapid River at Norway, 7:30 p.m. Wrestling Powers North Central at Rhinelander, Wis., 6 p.m. Girls’ ...

Eskymos fall to Wykons in girls action

ESCANABA — Turnovers and cold shooting from the free throw line hurt Escanaba’s cause here Wednesday night in a 51-43 girls’ basketball loss to the West Iron County Wykons. Esky, which turned the ball over 25 times and finished 11-of-32 from the line in this non-conference contest, ...

Today in Sports Dec. 19

1913 — Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson fights to a 10-round draw with Battling Jim Johnson in Paris. 1917 — The NHL begins play. Joe Malone of the Montreal Canadiens scores five goals in a 9-4 victory over the Ottawa Senators. Harry Hyland of the Montreal Wanderers scores five goals in a ...

Big Bay de Noc junior Parker Pederson surpasses 1,000 career points

ST. NICHOLAS — Big Bay de Noc junior Parker Pederson achieved a major milestone here Tuesday night. It was Rock Mid Peninsula which earned its first victory this season, however, by rolling past the Black Bears 71-40 in a Central U.P. Conference match-up here Tuesday night. “We knew we ...