ESCANABA — It was a good birthday for Brayden Lundquist at the Escanaba Motor Speedway Saturday Night as he picked up a pair of feature wins in the 600 sprints and in the street stocks. In the 600 sprints, Lundquist started on the pole and never trailed in the race. Lundquist also picked ...
WATERSMEET — The Big Bay de Noc girls golf team cruised their way to a golf championship in division 3 with a score of 475. Ontonagon was second with a score of 532, the only two teams to field five-person teams. Ontonagon junior Summer Stites had the best score of the day with a 103, ...
HOUGHTON — Bark River-Harris girls ended their season on the highest of notes last Wednesday after posting a score of 416 enough to take the U.P. Title in Division 3 as they were 12 points better than Cedarville who ended with 428, Hancock came in third with 442, Ironwood was fourth with 449 and Newberry was fifth with 459. Bark River-Harris sophomore Makayla Hyslop posted a tournament best score of 9. Hyslop had her troubles on the front nine bur resp[onded well on the back nine as she parred four of the nine holes. The second best effort of the day was Hancock junior Kaelyn ...
ESCANABA — A pair of nail-biting performances helped the Escanaba Eskymos to a district championship as they defeated Negaunee 3-2 and rallied from behind in the seventh inning to defeat Kingsford 5-4 in the championship game. Escanaba senior Graham Johnson started the seventh inning ...
1925 — Lou Gehrig bats for Pee Wee Wanninger in the eighth inning and replaces Wally Pipp at first base to start his streak of 2,130 consecutive games. 1946 — Assault, ridden by Warren Merhtens, wins the Belmont Stakes to become the seventh horse to capture the Triple Crown. 1968 — Stage Door Johnny, ridden by Heliodoro Gustines, wins the Belmont Stakes in a record time of 2:27 1-5 and spoils the Triple Crown bid of Forward Pass, who finishes 1 1/4 lengths behind. 1975 — Nolan Ryan of the California Angels pitches his fourth no-hitter to tie Sandy Koufax’s record, beating ...
NORWAY — The North Central Jets found themselves on the wrong side of the scoreboard here Friday as they fell 14-4 to the Norway Knights. North Central senior Brady Trudgeon hit a sacrifice fly in the top of the first to put the Jets up 1-0. Norway tied the game in the bottom of the first on an error by the Jets. The Knights took control of the game in the second inning as they scored six runs on five hits highlighted by a home run to left field by Cameron Varda that scored two and the Knights led 7-1 after two innings of play. The Knights dropped another six spot on the Jets ...
