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Northern Lights League All-Conference Soccer Teams

ESCANABA — The Northern Lights League released its All-Conference teams for the 2026 soccer season and here are those results. Player of the Year: Parker Pederson, Sr. Big Bay de Noc; All-Conference First Team Parker Pederson, Sr. Big Bay de Noc; M.J. Smith, Sr. Hannahville; Miles ...

Prep Schedule Oct. 29

Tonight’s games Volleyball Superior Central at Munising, 6 p.m. Manistique at Escanaba, 7 p.m. Crystal Falls Forest Park at Bark River-Harris, 7:15 p.m. Powers North Central at Rapid River, 7:30 p.m. Friday’s games Cross country Bay College at Region 12 championships, TBA Men’s basketball Minnesota North College-Hibbing at Bay College, 5 p.m. Football district 11-player Division 8 L’Anse at Bark River-Harris, 7 p.m.

Great Lakes 8 West All-Conference Teams

ESCANABA — The Great Lakes Eight West Conference released its All-Conference awards for the 2026 football season and here are those results. Team of the Year: Lake Linden-Hubbell Coach of the Year: Brett Gervais, Lake Linden-Hubbell Offensive Player of the Year: Brady Axford, Senior, ...

U.P. Scores

Monday’s matches L’Anse 3, Chassell 2 Ewen-Trout Creek 3, Watersmeet 0 Tuesday’s matches Volleyball Rapid River 3, Superior Central 2 Powers North Central 3, Carney-Nadeau 0 Felch North Dickinson 3, Bark River-Harris 1 Negaunee 3, Gladstone 0 Gwinn 3, Ishpeming 1 Baraga 3, L’Anse 0 Chassell 3, Wakefield-Marenisco 0 Lake Linden-Hubbell 3, Ironwood 1 Hancock 3, Calumet 2 Soccer Regional opener Division 2 Marquette 3, Cedar Springs 0

War against invasive

SKANDIA -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service applied lampricide to the Chocolay River this week, as part of a larger, decades-long effort to control the population of invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. Sea lamprey are native to the Atlantic Ocean, but spread to the Great Lakes in the late 19th and early 20th century thanks to the development of the Great Lakes shipping industry and the bypassing of Niagara Falls. According to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, sea lampreys were first spotted in Lake Erie in 1921 and had arrived in Lake Superior by 1938. Sea lamprey have a ...

U.P. Polls

ELEVEN PLAYER 1. Kingsford (6) 9-0 30 2. Menominee 8-1 24 3. Marquette 6-3 15 4. BR-Harris 7-2 12 5. Iron Mountain 7-2 6 Also - Negaunee 5-4, 3. EIGHT PLAYER 1. LL-Hubbell (6) 9-0 30 2. Pickford 7-2 23 3. St. Ignace 8-1 15 3. North Central 7-2 15 5. Ishpeming 7-2 4 Also - Rudyard 7-2, 2 and Forest Park 6-3, 1. U.P. Volleyball Poll Division 1-3 1. Kingsford (5) 22-3-0 25 1 2. Calumet 20-11-1 20 2 3. Negaunee 19-13-1 15 3 4. Houghton 11-8-0 10 4 5. ...