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Mid Pen boys take conference crown

BANAT — It’s not very often a runner has an off day and the good fortune of winning a race. Rock Mid Peninsula Ashdyn Gerow, however, overcame breathing issues here Wednesday and captured the Skyline Central Conference boys’ cross country title by covering a challenging 3.1-mile course in 17 minutes, 59.3 seconds on this mostly sunny and windy late afternoon. “Before the start I felt pretty good,” he said. “Then, little after the first hill I couldn’t breathe. It’s a rough day. This was my first time running in cleats and every now and then one would get me in the ...

Bowling Results

Young & American Circlemcountry.com 38, E&E Furniture 33, Lucky Strikes 24, Spare Time 19, Red Hots 18. H.T.G. — Circlemcountry.com 366 H.T.S. — Circlemcountry.com 1,002 H.I.S. — Matthew Meerstein 527, Rhonda Imeson 483 Three high games — Men: Matthew Meerstein 201, Dave Moran and Trevor Sebeck 199. Women: Rhonda Imeson 181, Abby Dubord 153, Andria Thompson 127.

Prep Schedule Oct. 9

Tonight’s games Football Norway at Powers North Central, 7 p.m. Calumet at Escanaba, 7 p.m. Stephenson at Rapid River, 7 p.m. Manistique at Gwinn, 7 p.m. Gladstone at Houghton, 7 p.m. Bark River-Harris at Hancock, 7 p.m. Saturday’s games Volleyball Bark River-Harris, Gladstone at Marquette Invitational, 8:30 a.m. Manistique at Indian River Inland Lakes Invitational, 9 a.m. Soccer Northern Lights League tournament at Mackinac Island, TBA Football Superior Central at Munising, 7 p.m.

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 ...