Sports

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 ...

A drier than usual fall

“Either get ready for elimination or your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards,” – Bob Dylan With a rush and a mighty rustle through a pile of downed leaves, the autumn changing of the guard blew into these Great North Woods in no uncertain fashion. This was the ...

Fall fishing

Wolf killing condemned by Tribes

WISCONSIN — After an announcement from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) that they had collaborated with the USDA Wildlife Services to euthanize nine gray wolves in Wisconsin’s Price County, another party expressed umbrage that the agencies failed to consult a certain ...

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 ...

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 ...