Entries for 'St. Ignace'

There is at least one similarity that ties together all four Division 4 teams making the trip to Calvin College this weekend. All four semifinalists have seen their shares of tough opponents this season and shouldn’t be wowed by the competition beginning Thursday...

It was a historic day for Sault Ste. Marie’s cross country program Saturday as its girls team completed a sweep of the Upper Peninsula Division 1 titles 90 minutes after the boys started the championship run at Pictured Rocks Golf Course. The Sault girls, placing...

All three reigning team champions are loaded again. All three reigning individual champions are back in the field (even if two are this time running the same race). Saturday’s Upper Peninsula Girls Cross Country Finals at Pictured Rocks Golf Course in Munising ea...

Three athletic directors who have provided decades of memory-making opportunities for student-athletes and a member of the media who is beloved for documenting those moments have been named recipients of the MHSAA’s Allen W. Bush Award.

The St. Ignace girls placed in all 17 events Saturday, repeating as Upper Peninsula Division 2 track champions with 160 points.

With power programs shifting into different divisions and the next contenders emerging, Saturday’s MHSAA Girls Track & Field Finals appear full of opportunities to shake up the standings and watch a new batch of champions shine. Click below for glances at all...

Nobody could catch Negaunee sophomore Emily Paupore at Saturday’s Upper Peninsula Girls Cross Country Finals. Paupore ran the day’s fastest time, covering the 3.1-mile course at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in 19 minutes, 22.3 seconds on this sunny, warm and br...

Of 30 runners who finished among the top 10 in an Upper Peninsula Girls Cross Country Final last season, 18 will be returning for another championship opportunity Saturday at Pictured Rocks Golf Club in Munising. And if that’s not sign enough that the competition...

The St. Ignace girls returned to familiar territory Saturday, earning their first Upper Peninsula Division 2 track title in three years with 110 points. Munising took runner-up honors at 102, and two-time defending champion Ishpeming took third this time with 91.

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...

Claudette Brown couldn’t help but hold back tears Thursday. But the fourth-year coach had good reason to feel emotional. Her first class of seniors on the St. Ignace boys golf team had just won the Upper Peninsula Division 2 Final title at George Young Golf Cours...

For the first time, all of the Quarterfinal games in the MHSAA Basketball Tournaments will have live streaming video on the MHSAA.tv website, beginning with Tuesday’s (March 14) in the Girls Tournament.

Macomb Dakota’s historic finish to last softball season came on the bats and arm of some history-making players who are among the latest entries into MHSAA record books. Click below for more recent additions to record books for baseball, girls and boys basketball...

The Ishpeming girls carried a heavy workload this season and were rewarded with their second straight Division 2 title at Saturday’s Upper Peninsula Finals. Ishpeming scored 127 points, followed by Hancock with 104 and St. Ignace 81.

There was considerable squirming at Oak Crest Golf Club on Thursday, and we're not even talking about the players who put on a good run for medalist honors. No, the parents of the top two contenders tried to keep their emotions in check while taking the roller coaster...

Kanen Storr finished his Leslie career with a 58-0 record this winter, along the way joining the MHSAA career wins list with a final 227-3 record and setting a career takedowns record with 1,185. Click to see where he ranks in all categories of the MHSAA wrestling...

Basketball is all about scoring points and stopping teams from scoring. Gage Kreski of St. Ignace is one of those rare players who excel on both ends of the floor.  Kreski eclipsed a 51-year-old Upper Peninsula scoring record this season while also establishing hi...

The St. Ignace girls basketball team is obviously quite familiar with the Mackinac Bridge. The Saints live at the Upper Peninsula's eastern connection to downstate, and they seem to make regular trips across the bridge in quest of MHSAA championships. The Newberry and ...

Tradition and excellence are distinctive parts of the athletic program at LaSalle High School at this eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula. And when the Saints face two-time defending Division 8 champion Muskegon Catholic Central on Saturday at Thirlby Field in Traverse ...

All three individual champions from 2014 will run at Saturday’s MHSAA Upper Peninsula Cross Country Finals, sponsored by Michigan National Guard, and two team champions from last season are favored to repeat. Here's a look at some of the teams and individuals exp...