Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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ST. IGNACE — Dillon Gordon had one more chance to wear a Ewen-Trout Creek uniform — and not worry about his ankle. He took advantage, scoring 16 points for the North, which beat the South 94-81 Saturday in the U.P. All-Star Basketball Classic at St. Ignace. His ankle was at 100 percent three weeks after the season. Gordon, E-TC’s second all-time leading scorer, hurt it in the final regular season game and was limited in playoff action during his senior year. He wasn’t limited Saturday. He spla...
KINGSFORD — At 5-2, Ironwood freshman Rachel Hudacek doesn’t stand very high, but she jumps high, higher than anyone else in Division 2 in the Upper Peninsula on Saturday. The bar was just two inches shorter than her and she cleared it. Her 5-0 mark in the high jump made her a U.P. champion at Saturday’s Division 2 U.P. track-and-field finals in Kingsford. Cole Stevens picked up Ironwood’s other U.P. championship, with a 12-0 mark in the pole vault. “She’s not very tall, but she’s got great spr...
KINGSFORD — The Bessemer Speedboys came home from the Division 3 U.P. Finals with three U.P. titles. North Dickinson ran away with the team trophy, its 77 points ahead of second-place Pickford by 26 points. Bessemer was just five points off of second-place, finishing fifth with 46 points, one point behind Rapid River and two behind St. Ignace. Two Bessemer relay teams, the 400 and 800, are U.P. champions. Alex Smith won the long jump with his leap of 20-5. Taylor Smith, Derek Gheller and Art R...
NORWAY — What an up-and-down Friday for the Ironwood softball team. The Red Devils started the day with a 3-2 win over Ishpeming in a thrilling MHSAA Division 4 district semifinal. Kaitlyn Tollstam crushed a walk-off hit to score Dani McCullough in the bottom of the seventh, after Ishpeming had just tied the game. Friday ended with Rapid River blanking Ironwood 10-0 in 5 innings in the district final. Ironwood’s biggest strength all season has been its hitting, but the Devils snuck past Ish...
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Hurley's Mark Saari may not have a favorable seed at the WIAA Division 3 state meet, but he didn't have a high seed during the last two sectionals either — and he advanced to state both times. Saari is competing in the 300-meter state preliminary hurdles race at La Crosse today at around noon. He's seeded 16th with eight runners advancing to Saturday's final. Saari was seeded eighth at sectionals and finished fourth to take the last qualifying spot last week. "He knew it had...
PARK FALLS, Wis. — Hurley left the bats in Phillips. The Midgets totaled just two hits and one run as Chequamegon won a WIAA Division 3 regional title 11-1 in 6 innings Wednesday. That was just a day after Hurley slugged 18 hits in a 12-9 semifinal victory over Phillips. It’s the fourth regional title in five years for the Screaming Eagles. Twelve walks and multiple errors compounded Hurley’s offensive struggles. Eight of the 11 Screaming Eagle runs scored on walks, errors and wild pitch...
HURLEY — Hurley pitcher Grant Innes took a no-hitter into the fifth inning as the Midgets breezed past Cornell/Lake Holcombe 11-0 in Friday’s WIAA Division 3 regional opener. Innes struck out 10, two in every inning of the five-inning game. The other out in the first four innings was a groundout. “That just seemed to be the rhythm there for awhile,” Innes said. “Four-seem fastball was blowing ‘em by pretty good. That just seemed to be my No. 1 along with the two-seam and curve.” The only ball...
PARK FALLS, Wis. — The defense is usually the least of Hurley's worries. The bats and pitching were there, but Chequamegon took advantage of six Midgette errors to win a WIAA Division 3 regional title with an exciting 6-5 win over young Hurley Tuesday. The Screaming Eagles broke a 5-5 tie with an unearned run because of Hurley's final error of the game in the bottom of the sixth inning, making four of the six Chequamegon runs unearned. "It comes down to, I always say defense wins games," Hurley...
HURLEY — Tuesday’s game played out a whole lot like 2011 and that was a good thing for Hurley. The No. 2 seed Midgettes held on to beat No. 3 Ladysmith 3-1 in Tuesday’s WIAA Division 3 regional semifinal. Hurley travels to top-seed Chequamegon Thursday for the regional final at 5 p.m. The Screaming Eagles defeated No. 5 Cameron 7-0 in Tuesday’s other semifinal. Hurley pitcher Brittany Czarnecki escaped a one-out bases-loaded jam in the top of the seventh inning Tuesday, surrendering just one run...
HURLEY — Hurley pitcher Brittany Czarnecki allowed one baserunner as the Midgettes started the WIAA Division 3 regional tournament with a 10-0 victory over Washburn/Bayfield Thursday. No. 2 seed Hurley hosts No. 3 Ladysmith Tuesday in a regional semifinal. Ladysmith survived an upset bid by No. 6 Chetek/Weyerhaeuser 5-4 Thursday. The playoff game was also Hurley’s home opener and the Midgettes (10-5) played like they’ve been here all season, having no trouble with No. 7 seed Washburn. Czarnecki...
HURLEY — In the first outdoor track meet this season held in the Gogebic Range, South Shore came to Hurley and swept the Indianhead Conference championships Tuesday. Hurley was runner-up in both the boys and girls events, just four points behind in the boys, 133-129, and seven in the girls, 152-145. The boys and girls results were identical place wise: Drummond in third, followed by Bessemer, Ironwood, Wakefield-Marenisco and Mercer. The conference usually holds three track meets per season w...
ASHLAND, Wis. — Ashland sent out an email to a bunch of teams Tuesday trying to find an opponent because it had a rare commodity — a playable field on a nice day. Unfortunately for Ashland, Hurley was the team that jumped on the chance. The Midgettes’ bats came alive as Hurley beat the Oredockers 18-7 on a warm Tuesday. The Northland College field was ready for action and both Hurley and Ashland were happy to be able to get another game in — even though it wasn’t scheduled until early Tuesday af...
RHINELANDER, Wis. — The Hurley Midgettes may have lost 2-1 to Rhinelander Friday, but they beat every other local team: They played a game outside. Even if it took until April 26 and an 80-mile drive to the southeast where the snowpack is nearly gone. Hurley plans on playing again today, three games in a tournament at Gilman, which is roughly between Tony and Thorp and is the site of the Midgettes’ 2010 sectional championship victory over Thorp. “We didn’t really play all that bad for not com...
BOSTON — Ironwood’s Donna Gering, 48, finished the Boston Marathon in 3 hours, 23 minutes, an hour and 6 minutes before two explosions rocked the finish-line area Monday. Her husband, Jim Gering, was watching the race across the street from where the second bomb went off, but left before that happened. He had even considered going across the street because the warm sun was shining there on the cool day. He didn’t because it would have meant a much longer walk to meet Donna after the race. “Like...
Ironwood tried snowblowing the track at Longyear Field Monday. “It didn’t really go too good,” Ironwood athletic director Gordy Erickson said. “It’s all thick, heavy and icy. We are at an absolute standstill.” The WIAA softball regional tournament starts about a week early this year, May 16. That’s a month from Tuesday and the start of the season isn’t in sight. With another snowstorm forecast to continue today on top of feet of hard-packed snow and ice, spring sports on the Gogebic Range m...
MARQUETTE — Dillon Gordon had a Dream career, now he’s on the Dream Team. Gordon, a Ewen-Trout Creek senior, was named to the all-class All-U.P. Dream Team. Voting was conducted at the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association ‘s 63rd annual boys basketball meeting Wednesday on the campus of Northern Michigan University. Mid-Peninsula’s 20-20 player Brett Branstrom was named Class D Player of the Year, beating Gordon on a 14-9 vote. Both players certainly had a case. —Branst...
MARQUETTE — Three for three. Ironwood junior Adam Mackey made the All-U.P. team for the third year in a row. It is his second consecutive season on the Class ABC First Team. He was Second Team as a freshman. Mackey finished in sixth place in voting for the five-person Dream Team this year. Voting was held at Wednesday’s 63rd annual boys basketball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. Mackey averaged 17.8 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. He led the Devils in eight statistical categories: points sco...
MARQUETTE — Ewen-Trout Creek’s Zoey McGeshick and Ontonagon’s Chelsea Truscott were named to the All-U.P. Class D Second Team. While those two players are seniors, all five members of the all-class All-U.P. Dream Team are not — four are juniors and one is a sophomore. The All-U.P. team was determined during Wednesday’s 38th annual girls basketball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on the campus of Northern Michigan University. The boys team was also determined Wednesday and will be released in Saturday...
SUPERIOR, Wis. — The outdoor track-and-field season may be a long ways off with towering snowbanks everywhere, but Ironwood started the season indoors Friday at the Simpson Invitational at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The Red Devil girls were seventh and the boys eighth. Ashland won the boys event, Superior the girls. Jessica Gering finished second in the 1,600-meter run to lead the Ironwood girls. She led nearly the entire race until a last-lap surge by Superior’s Leah Holms. Cole Ste...
EWEN — It’s official. Ewen-Trout Creek senior Dillon Gordon is going to play basketball at Michigan Tech. Gordon committed Tuesday in a meeting at Houghton. “I’m extremely excited,” Gordon said. “I can’t wait to see what the next level brings. They’ve been recruiting me throughout the whole year and it seemed like a great place to go. Great education. I think it’s a great option for me.” Gordon finished his high school career at 1,797 points, the second most in E-TC history. “I’m just very, ver...
IRONWOOD — No matter how good the season, the ending still stings. The Gogebic Community College Samsons came up six points short of the national tournament, losing 81-75 to Central Community College of Columbus, Neb., on Sunday. The Samsons completed a special season at 23-5, winning two thrilling Region 13 games in front of huge crowds in Ironwood while capturing its first Region title since 2011. The biggest crowd of all arrived Sunday to see a back-and-forth nailbiting NJCAA Division II District 7 championship game won by Central (...
