Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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WAKEFIELD — The Gogebic Miners experienced great fall football weather and excellent fan support in overpowering the Ontonagon Gladiators, 36-20, in a Great Western Conference game on homecoming Saturday. “It was the seniors’ last game on their home field and they went out with a win,” Miner coach Mark Mazzon said. “For homecoming and some of its distractions, we came out and played very well. We want our players to enjoy homecoming, but their main job is to win the game. Everybody got to pl...
IRONWOOD — Ironwood came as close as it possibly could to winning its first game but fell to Hancock, 28-26, in overtime in an exciting West-PAC game on Friday night. “I thought I was going to have a heart attack,” Hancock coach Matt Walter said. “Every time I come here it’s tough and a very close game. We’ve lost two games on two-point conversions, so it was good to finally win one the same way. But I think losing on those two-point conversions taught us to keep fighting no matter what and we...
BESSEMER — Playing with focused enthusiasm, the Wakefield-Marenisco volleyball team stunned Bessemer 25-22, 25-21 and 25-10 in a matchup of rivals in the House of Noise. Cardinal senior Miranda Sibley was a force at the net with 11 kills and four blocks and she said she had played in at least 10 games against Bessemer since coming up as a freshman and this was only the second time she could recall beating the Speedgirls. “We were all fired up in the locker room,” Sibley said. “I think we surp...
IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Community College Lady Samson volleyball team continued to improve and rolled over Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College 25-16, 25-9 and 25-14 at the Lindquist Center on Breast Cancer Awareness Night. “I thought we played very well,” GCC coach Aaron Bender said. “Anytime you get a win is big. We’re getting better — absolutely. We served well and had 18 total aces. We’ve played poorly at some spots in the season, but the last five games our passing has been much bet...
IRONWOOD — In an Indianhead Conference East Division volleyball showdown of undefeated teams, Mercer cranked up the intensity and emotion and swept the Ironwood Red Devils 25-21, 25-18 and 25-18 at the John Krznarich Gym on Thursday night. With the win, the Tigers gained at least a share of the Eastern Conference title and made Robyn Schoeneman one happy coach. Mercer is 4-0 in the conference race, while Ironwood is now 3-1. Both have one conference game left. Ironwood is 9-1 overall. The T...
IRONWOOD — Jim Betchek, a former teacher and coach at Luther L. Wright High School, passed away Sept. 22 at the age of 85. Many in this area may not know or remember Betchek; he lived in Ironwood from 1956-61. But while he was here, he made quite an impression. Mostly, he left his mark in coaching high school sports such as football, basketball and track and field. And it was in basketball, where he was a head coach, that he left his biggest imprint. Betchek was a star athlete at Berrien Springs High School in many sports during the 1940s...
IRONWOOD — There’s only one thing that Ironwood’s Katie Piispanen likes better than playing tennis. And that’s winning when she plays tennis. “I love the competition and I try my best to win,” Piispanen said. “That’s my motivation. I don’t like to lose matches.” Piispanen’s journey into the tennis world began when she was in sixth grade and coach Annette Burchell ran a tennis camp at Luther L. Wright High School. It peaked her interest and she became hooked on the sport. It didn’t take Piispa...
BESSEMER — Bessemer did not bring its A game to the House of Noise on Thursday night, but the Speedgirls played solid volleyball and swept Hurley 25-22, 26-24 and 25-23 in Indianhead Conference action. “This was probably one of our better games as far as hitting,” Speedgirl coach Shelly Mettler said. “Julie Ahnen had her best game overall. She was everywhere and put it together tonight. She carried us through. We moved her around and she can make the transition on the court easily. Sarah T...
IRONWOOD — West Iron County carved out a dominating 49-0 victory over Ironwood in West-PAC action on Friday night at Longyear Field. Coming into the game with a 3-0 record, Wykon coach Mike Berutti warned his team not to take the 0-3 Red Devils too lightly. “I was nervous coming over here,” Berutti said. “We were too loose on the bus. But we came out and played real well. We did what we had to do. We put pressure on them right off the bat.” They Wykons had several advantages over the Red Devil...
IRONWOOD — There is an old saying that goes “nothing worthwhile in life comes easy.” The Ironwood girl’s volleyball team found out how true this can be as it took five nail-biting sets for the Red Devils to turn back an intense, determined Bessemer team 21-25, 29-27, 25-22, 22-25 and 15-11 at the John Krznarich Gym on Thursday night. It was Ironwood’s seventh straight win to start the season and they are also 2-0 in the Indianhead Conference. “This was the most intense game we’ve played,” Red...
IRONWOOD — Northland International University swept the Lindquist Center clean on Tuesday night by defeating Gogebic Community College’s Lady Samson volleyball team 25-13, 25-13, 26-24. The Lady Pioneers played efficiently and NIU coach David Herron said it was because his team had played more matches than GCC. “We’ve had five matches, so we’re used to the competition,” Heron said. “Aaron’s (Bender) a good coach and he’ll get them going. We served well, attacked the ball and converted well. We h...
WAKEFIELD — It’s not often that a good-sized crowd stands up at the end of a volleyball match and gives both teams a standing ovation. But that’s what happened at Cardinal Gym in Wakefield on Monday night as Bessemer eked out a razor-thin, five-set thriller over Wakefield-Marenisco 25-14, 25-23, 12-25, 22-25, and 17-15. The standing ovation seemed like a sign of appreciation of the intense emotion, hard work and all-out competition displayed by both teams. “One got a W, but nobody lost tonight,...
WAKEFIELD — It was a game the Gogebic players will want to talk about when they come back for their class reunions. And it was the kind of game that left a satisfied smile on coach Mark Mazzon’s face a long time after it was over. The Gogebic Miners overcame the heat, their own mistakes and an evenly-matched Hancock Bulldogs team and won an exciting 28-26 season-opener in overtime at Cardinal Field on Saturday. Gogebic’s Jess Mazzon scored the game-tying touchdown in the only overtime and Paul...
HURLEY — The Border Bowl is becoming Hurley’s border bash. It was the Midgets’ eighth straight win over Ironwood in their annual early-season clash. This time Hurley overwhelmed the Red Devils 47-7 at Veterans Memorial Field on Friday night. Hurley coach Scott Erickson felt good about the win but was already looking ahead to a tough opponent next week. “It’s good to get a win, our second game now,” Erickson said. “I guess we’ll see on the film what kind of corrections we need to make and we cer...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — After nearly a lifetime of devotion and passion for ski jumping, ski flying and Copper Peak, Charlie Supercynski was inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame with the Class of 2013 on Saturday night. Supercynski was enshrined for his “longtime outstanding service to the sport of ski jumping” along with sixteen other inductees at the Big Powderhorn Lodge in Bessemer. The event was held on the Gogebic Range for the first time and drew nearly 150 people, which was t...
HURLEY – Melissa Williams-Herrala lives in Chicago but talk to her for a few minutes and you realize she still has a soft spot in her heart for northern Wisconsin. After all, she grew up in Iron Belt and ran cross country at Hurley K-12 School. Last year, Williams-Herrala was second in the women’s half-marathon, but on Saturday at the 45th annual Paavo Nurmi Marathon, she was the first to cross the finish line. Her time was 1:34:13. “I like coming up here,” Williams-Herrala said. “It has that...
HURLEY – There always seems to be feel-good stories that come out of each Paavo Nurmi Marathon. One of the best ones in the 2013 Paavo, set for Saturday in Iron County, belongs to Amanda Koivisto-Niemi of Bessemer. And sometime around noon on Saturday, Koivisto-Niemi will be standing on Silver Street feeling very good about herself after she finishes running with her five-person relay team. It will have nothing to do with the time she ran. It will have everything to do with the simple i...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP – Charlie Supercynski will be the first Gogebic Range resident to be named to the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be held at Big Powderhorn Lodge in Bessemer on Saturday, Aug. 17, at 7 p.m. Six months later, ski flying returns to Copper Peak after a 20-year absence and a strong volunteer effort, led by Supercynski, to get the facility ready. Bryan Sanders, president of the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame, said Supercynski will be cited for h...
HURLEY – A very diverse group of athletes from the Class of 2013 were inducted into the 16th annual Hurley High School Athletic Hall of Fame at the Hurley K-12 School on Saturday. The new inductees included Johnny Allice (Class of 1932), Kyle Elsemore (Class of 2002), Sarah Tarasewicz (Class of 2001) and the 1987-88 Hurley girls’ basketball team. Sarah Tarasewicz Class of 2001 Sarah Tarasewicz received the Danielle Ladwig Memorial Outstanding Senior Athlete Award at the conclusion of her high school career in Hurley. When an award has a tit...
HURLEY — Brothers Cory Wicklund, of Montreal, and Jeremy Wicklund, of Appleton, overcame a strong field of 76 teams and miserable weather conditions to win their first Hurley Quarterback Club golf tournament at the Eagle Bluff Golf Club on Friday. They shot a 64. Tim Steiger, of Bessemer, and Jack Croci, of Hurley, who have won this event four times, were runners-up this time with a 65. The Wicklunds were ecstatic with their low round in the foggy, rainy, cold weather. “We were hoping for bad...
IRONWOOD — It took two full days of golf and three extra playoff holes, but Zack and Cody Langdon finally emerged as winners in the championship flight of the Milakovich Memorial Tournament at the Gogebic Country Club on Sunday. After Pete Barbera sank his par putt on the 553-yard 18th hole, Zack Langdon made a hard-breaking 2-1/2-footer for a birdie 4 (and the win) on the third playoff hole. Zack Langdon is from Ironwood, while his brother is from Marquette. "It was nerve-wracking," Zack Langdo...
BESSEMER — According to Gogebic Country Club golf professional, Tyler Leskela, it is the largest golf tournament in the U.P. and northern Wisconsin with 100 two-person teams and a waiting list to get in. And it’s been like that for two decades. It’s the Milakovich Memorial Tournament and it will be played this weekend at the Gogebic Country Club with golfers teeing off at 7 a.m. on Saturday. But it’s more like a golf reunion or homecoming than just a golf tournament. That’s because people come...
BESSEMER — The Lakeland Outlaws swept the Gogebic Rangers 7-1 and 7-2 in sultry 90-degree weather and high humidity on Tuesday. Game 1 — Lakeland 7, Gogebic 1 The Gogebic Rangers’ inability to string together hits and score runs was their nemesis again at Massie Field on Tuesday night as they fell to the Lakeland Outlaws 7-1 in the first game of the doubleheader. “It’s the same old, same old,” Gogebic manager Eric Peterson said. “We ran into the same thing last year. We scatter hits and you ha...
BESSEMER — The Tomahawk Cubs broke open a pitchers' duel by scoring nine of their 10 runs in the final three innings and overcame the Gogebic Rangers 10-4 at Massie Field on Friday night. "Up until the fifth inning, it was a 1-0 game," Tomahawk manager Jeff Shifts said. "Our pitcher (Brandon Vecchio) did a very nice job tonight. He's only going to be a sophomore this fall, but he has a lot of composure. He's moves the ball inside and out and threw a lot of first strikes and kept them o...
IRONWOOD — After winning their first two Little League District 11 Tournament games at the John Krznarich Field, the Penokee Range All-Stars fell victim to Ishpeming and the 10-run rule in the winner’s bracket semifinal. Ishpeming thumped Penokee Range 15-3 in four innings. “Our boys just didn’t come out to play today,” Penokee coach Scott Wilson said. “We didn’t have the defense we normally play and we’re a better hitting team than we showed today.” Ishpeming quickly jumped ahead by scoring two...
