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Bay College earns sweep of Muskegon Community College

ESCANABA — The Bay College Norse continued their late-season push by posting basketball victories over Muskegon Community College here Saturday. Bay’s women clinched at least a No. 2 seed in the MCCAA North Conference tournament by defeating the Jayhawks 90-56 and the men led all the way ...

Pankonien hits program record 9 3-pointers in Braves victory

GLADSTONE — Gladstone junior Eva Pankonien hit a program record nine 3-pointers previously held by Lillie Johnson with seven as the Braves rolled past Gwinn 64-37 here Thursday. “It felt great, I had a good shootaround today,” Pankonien said. “They played a zone defense to take away ...

Sports Flashback Feb. 8-14

Feb. 8, 1961 — Bob Debelak poured a school-record 54 points as the Trenary Comets posted an 89-64 basketball victory over the Grand Marais Polar Bears. Roy Aho added 14 and Ed Lauila finished with 11. Bill Micheau scored 26 points, leading the Rapid River Rockets past the Bark River-Harris ...

U.P. Scores Feb. 14

U.P. scores Thursday’s games Girls’ basketball Ishpeming 56, Escanaba 29 Manistique 46, Stephenson 39 Gladstone 64, Gwinn 37 Powers North Central 44, Rapid River 14 Carney-Nadeau 48, Bark River-Harris 39 Crystal Falls Forest Park 44, Felch North Dickinson 29 Kingsford 43, ...

Prep Schedule Feb. 14

Today’s games Boys’ wrestling Individual districts Division 2 (Escanaba) at Gaylord, 10:30 a.m. Division 3 (Gladstone) at Grayling, 10:30 a.m. Division 4 at Manistique, 10:30 a.m. Bowling Escanaba, Gladstone at Ishpeming, TBA Competitive cheer Manistique at Houghton Lake ...

Rockets launch failed, Jets fly to victory on senior night

SPALDING — The Powers North Central girls took care of the basketball and the lead for the most part here in a 44-14 triumph over the Rapid River Rockets on Senior Night here Thursday. This marked the fourth victory in five games for the Jets, who improved to 8-8 and committed just 10 ...