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Escanaba and Negaunee split softball doubleheader

ESCANABA — Momentum played a major role in the second game of a softball doubleheader here Thursday as the Escanaba Eskymos rode that to a 10-5 triumph over the Negaunee Miners The Miners hung on for a 3-2 victory in the opener. Negaunee led 4-2 in the fifth inning of the nightcap before Esky scored four times to take a 6-4 lead. Esky’s Breleigh Reinhart tied the score on a fielding error and went ahead on a delayed steal by Abby Derkos. The Eskymos then added four additional runs in the sixth. Mara Anderson’s double to straight-way centerfield gave them a 7-4 ...

Eskymos overcome slow start to defeat Flivvers

ESCANABA — The Escanaba Eskymos overcame a slow start to defeat the Kingsford Flivvers 11-0 here Wednesday. The Eskymos scored all 11 of their runs in the fourth inning. Lennox Peacock started the scoring with an RBI-single and Cannon Arnt and Max LeDuc each drew a walk to score a run.Alex ...

Eagles sweep Jets in baseball doubleheader

HERMANSVILLE — Former Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson sometimes said ‘hits don’t hurt you. Walks and errors, those will kill you.’ Powers North Central and Stephenson received a combined 21 free passes in the second game of a baseball doubleheader here Wednesday night. Four North Central pitchers gave up 13 walks in a 16-12 loss in the nightcap. Stephenson’s hurlers allowed eight in a contest which was stopped after four innings due to darkness. Stephenson also won the opener 10-2 in seven frames. Both games were scheduled for six. The Eagles, taking advantage ...

Prep Schedule April 24

Today’s games Golf Norway Invitational at Oak Crest, 10 a.m. Track and field Carney-Nadeau at St. Norbert’s Invitational, 4 p.m. Softball Superior Central at Marquette (DH), 4 p.m. Rapid River at Stephenson (DH), 4 p.m. Felch North Dickinson at Bark River-Harris (DH), 4 p.m. Rudyard at Manistique (DH), 4:30 p.m. Baseball Superior Central at Iron Mountain, 4 p.m. Felch North Dickinson at Powers North Central (DH), 4:30 p.m Rudyard at Manistique (DH), 4:30 p.m. Saturday’s games Track and field Manistique at Pickford Invitational, 10:30 ...

Today in Sports April 24

1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and succeeds Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who died in November 1944. 1962 — LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax’s 2nd career 18-strikeout, in a 10-2 win over Cubs in Chicago. 1963 — Bob Cousy ends his 13-year career by scoring 18 points as the Boston Celtics win their fifth consecutive NBA championship, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 112-109 in Game 6. 1967 — The Philadelphia 76ers win the ...

Arnt throws perfect game as Eskymos defeat Braves

ESCANABA — Escanaba senior Cannon Arnt used only 61 pitches for a perfect game as the Eskymos defeated Gladstone 10-0 here Tuesday. That was the best game of his career,” Eskymos coach Scott Hanson said. “To do it against Gladstone is a really big deal and highly impressive and to have ...