Entries for 'Menominee'

Paxton Johnson only achieved half of her goal in her final high school golf match here Wednesday, but it was a special half. The Escanaba High School senior won her fourth straight Upper Peninsula Division 1 golf championship to join two other four-time winners. Menomi...

What a sports year. There certainly have been some amazing athletic feats over the 2018-19 high school season in Michigan, and it’s just two-thirds of the way complete.

Menominee will host Escanaba on Friday in the 121st meeting between two of the Upper Peninsula’s largest high schools and proudest football programs – but with the trophy celebrating the game still missing after it first disappeared more than half a cen...

Welcome to late spring in the Upper Peninsula. With a stiff northwest breeze whipping across the Negaunee Tennis Facility coupled with off and on drizzle and temperatures in the mid to upper 40s, conditions were far less than perfect for Wednesday’s Upper Peninsu...

Whether it’s a takedown or a pyramid, you can watch more than 300 hours of live streaming video on MHSAA.tv this week with Finals in Girls Competitive Cheer and Individual Wrestling taking place, plus the usual serving of games from School Broadcast...

The final day of the MHSAA 11-Player Football Finals at Ford Field in Detroit – powered by the Michigan Army National Guard – produced a first-time gridiron champion and a game-winning play that will be talked about for a long time. Click for video highligh...

November has become a regular part of the Grand Rapids West Catholic football schedule. Trips to Detroit are turning into a Thanksgiving weekend tradition. But what the Falcons accomplished again Saturday was not lost on them.

Each day of this weekend's MHSAA 11-Player Football Finals at Ford Field will have its own distinct theme. Friday features the only first-time football finalist this season, Ottawa Lake Whiteford in Division 8, plus three teams seeking their first championships since t...

There’s a budding dynasty in Negaunee. The girls tennis team was the two-time reigning champion at the Upper Peninsula Division 1 Finals, and on Thursday, the Miners added another title.

This week, the contents of my mailbox reminded me about one of my favorite items to collect – booklets and programs celebrating the history of Michigan high school football. Contained within was the 2016 edition of the book, “Orchard Lake St. Mary’s P...

A tale of two strategies worked out about as well as possible for the Negaunee and Menominee high school tennis teams Thursday afternoon. In the end, each won its final match of the day to forge a tie for the MHSAA Upper Peninsula Division 1 boys tennis title at the M...

The Michigan High School Athletic Association has selected eight student-athletes from Class B member schools to receive scholarships through the Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Award program. Each of the scholarship recipients will be honored at halftime ceremon...

Explaining the continued success of football at Menominee High School is not difficult. Most winning programs pride themselves on some combination of hard work, strong coaching, camaraderie and talent.  But here's the difference: The Maroons have all of those thin...

Grand Rapids West Catholic went a combined 34-8 over the last three seasons with back-to-back MHSAA Division 5 championships and a runner-up finish – and quarterback Travis Russell had two of the largest hands in that success.  Click below to ...

It was a true test of depth, mental toughness and endurance Wednesday at the MHSAA Division 1 Upper Peninsula Tennis Finals at Kingsford High School. The Negaunee Miners proved, by a slim margin, to have just enough of each to reclaim their foothold as U.P. champions.

A pair of volleyball aces, or rather acers, top this week’s list of additions to the MHSAA record book listings. Check out some of the back stories as well behind this week's additions in baseball, girls and boys basketball, football, girls lacrosse and boys tenn...

There were more moments than he and his teammates might’ve expected this fall when Drake Wooten sensed his high school career could soon come to an end.  That wasn’t supposed to be the scenario after Grand Rapids West Catholic advanced to the Division...

If you're looking for a few good stories to finish off this high school football season, make sure you're glued to this weekend's MHSAA 11-Player Finals at Ford Field. Read on for previews of all eight games including the best wins this season and players to watch from...

The Marquette girls and Menominee senior Kameron Burmeister concluded their cross country seasons in impressive fashion in Saturday’s Upper Peninsula Division 1 Final.

The grandstand was nearly full at Kingsford's Flivver Field on Saturday. But probably not many people witnessed the work in the field events by the Gladstone boys during the Upper Peninsula Division 1 Track and Field Finals. Gladstone, which scored 69 points in the fi...