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Prep Schedule Sept. 26

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Today’s games Cross country Bay College High School Invitational at Flat Rock, 11:30 a.m. Soccer Big Bay de Noc vs. Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Sault Ste. Marie, noon Football Powers North Central at Lake Linden-Hubbell, 1:30 p.m. Monday’s games Cross country Manistique at St. Ignace Invitational, 3:30 p.m. Volleyball Big Bay de Noc, Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Kinross Maplewood Baptist, 3:30 p.m. Montcalm C.C. at Bay College, 6:30 p.m. Iron Mountain at Escanaba, 7 p.m. Girls’ tennis Iron Mountain at Escanaba, 4 p.m.

U.P. Scores

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Thursday’s matches Volleyball Marquette 3, Escanaba 0 Kingsford 3, Gladstone 0 Manistique 3, Bark River-Harris 1 Powers North Central 3, Rapid River 1 Menominee 3, Carney-Nadeau 1 Superior Central 3, Rock Mid Peninsula 0 Munising 3, Felch North Dickinson 1 Negaunee 3, Gwinn 1 Crystal Falls Forest Park 3, Stephenson 0 Hancock 3, Chassell 0 Traverse City Central 3, Sault Ste. Marie 0 Soccer Marquette 2, Houghton 2

Sentinels sweep Eskymos on three close sets

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MARQUETTE — They battled right to the end. Despite all that, the Escanaba Eskymos were unable to avoid dropping a 3-0 (25-22, 25-23, 25-20) volleyball decision to the Marquette Sentinels here Thursday night. For the Sentinels this was a reversal of fortune from the first meeting in Escanaba Aug. 26 when they fell to the Eskymos in straight sets. “They wanted revenge,” Esky coach Bev Ziebell said. “Their student section was huge tonight. We just have to work on eliminating the errors. I think our serve receives were all right and our defense was good, but we couldn’t get ...

Fall salmon fishing

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“I ain’t had a bite ‘cuz the moon’s too bright, I wish I had a big one or two. My trotline’s set and my hooks are wet and mama’s got the catfish blues,” – Tom T. Hall The overnight temperatures had plummeted well below freezing, leaving the early morning crisp and brittle, ...

Mid Peninsula boys win Munising Invite, Rapid River runners up

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MUNISING — The Rock Mid Peninsula cross country program has waited a long time for this. Mid Pen’s boys became Division 3 champs with 126 points in the El Harger Invitational here Wednesday. Rapid River was runner-up at 141. “This is our first win in more than 30 years,” Mid Pen coach Carl Brunngraeber said. “Our program is definitely growing. Ashdeyn (Gerow) PR’d by 11 seconds and Eli Stiglitz really stepped up. We had a really hard day on the hills Monday. These kinds of workouts are hard to schedule because the meets are sometimes pretty close together. This was a ...