Entries for 'Houghton'

The Marquette boys continued their hold on the Upper Peninsula Division 1 track title Saturday, winning for the fourth straight season with 110 points.

Predicting the outcomes of MHSAA Track & Field Finals can be quite a leap.  But here's a semi-reliable forecast after hours of poring over the qualifiers for Saturday's seven boys meets: Expect plenty of close competition as a number of teams have the singular...

Two past Upper Peninsula golf champions went head-to-head here Thursday, and as play stopped for a heavy downpour, the momentum made a tremendous switch after play resumed to help decide the issue. Junior Paxton Johnson of Escanaba used the 30-minute rain delay to turn...

Houghton senior Clayton Sayen added another night of highlights to an incredible senior campaign, winning a rare race combination of the 100, 400 and 3,200 meters at the Ontonagon Invitational on May 4 to earn the Michigan Army National Guard “Performance of the W...

Pontiac Notre Dame Prep thought it had won the program's first MHSAA skiing championship since 2006. Instead, Houghton-Hancock roared back to take its second crown in program history and first since 2010.

It takes a team effort to win an Upper Peninsula swimming & diving title, and that was definitely true for the Gladstone girls team Saturday. The Braves were facing some stiff competition from Marquette and reigning champion Houghton. But Gladstone got a record-bre...

For the past two years, the Houghton boys swimming & diving team has watched Marquette come out ahead of the Gremlins for the Upper Peninsula Finals championship. On Saturday, the Gremlins finally finished on top, but it came down to the wire.

It starts before dawn on a chilly Thursday in Brighton. Cases of water and sports drinks, a bucket of pucks, water bottles, 20 hockey bags, five dozen or so sticks, luggage for players, parents, coaches and others, bags of oranges and apples – all are loaded...

The Gogebic and Brimley boys had never been crowned Upper Peninsula cross country champions before Saturday, and Houghton won for the first time in six years. The only repeat winner was Brimley's Austin Plotkin, who repeated as the fastest runner in UP Division 3.

Familiar faces could dominate photo finishes at Saturday’s Upper Peninsula Boys Cross Country Finals at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in Munising. Two reigning individual champions are back from a year ago, as is the runner-up from the race where the winner has moved ...

If there is one theme that can be drawn across all seven MHSAA Girls Track & Field Finals to be run Saturday, it’s probably this: There are plenty of standouts who have climbed the medal stand before – and could knock down a number of records on their w...

The MHSAA Track & Field Finals again will draw one of the largest groups of competitors of any championship event in the state this school year. And fans surely will recognize a number of names from Finals past – including, on the boys side, a number of senio...

There was a brisk wind blowing Wednesday afternoon on the Northern Michigan University Golf Course, but the tough conditions didn’t have an effect on the Escanaba girls team. The Eskymos fought their way through the cold and won their second straight Upper Penins...

There was a time when hosting a track meet in early April was nearly impossible in the Upper Peninsula. Indoor tracks weren’t available, and the long winters sometimes made it difficult to hold outdoor meets even in mid to late April. That no longer holds true as...

Just two weeks ago, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central’s girls won their first Regional skiing championship in school history.  Now they have an MHSAA Finals championship trophy to place along side it, continuing a string of firsts.

High school sports fans can stream MHSAA Championships over the next five weekends on MHSAA.tv for just $9.95, starting with this week’s Team Dual Wrestling Finals in Mt. Pleasant.

Sometimes just one event can make the difference between a happy experience and a devastating one. And that’s what happened at the girls Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals on Saturday.

The MHSAA has selected nine student-athletes from Class B member schools to receive scholarships through the MHSAA-Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award program. Click to find out more about all nine scholarship recipients, who will be honored at halftime ceremon...

Saturday’s Upper Peninsula Boys Cross Country Finals are guaranteed to crown three first-time individual champions, and one of last season’s team title-winners is expected to be replaced as well at Beauchamp Cross Country Course. Two-time reigning Division ...

Elections were completed recently to fill positions on the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s legislative body, its Representative Council, with eight current members receiving re-election.