Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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WAKEFIELD – The 36th annual Sunday Lake Run/Walk was held on Thursday with 261 runners and walkers participating under nearly perfect weather conditions on the scenic 2.8 mile course. For the runners, they simply run around the lake and Allan Peterson and Carolyn Andresen did it best. They were the top male and female runners overall. Both grew up in Ironwood and were key performers on the Red Devil cross country and track and field teams in high school. Peterson now runs cross country and t...
BESSEMER – The Gogebic Rangers were on the comeback trail Monday night and took the first game of a doubleheader against the Ashland Lakers at Massie Field, but took a thumping by the bigger school in game two. Gogebic won game one 6-5 but fell in the second game 11-1. Game One – Gogebic 6, Ashland 5 Ashland sophomore pitcher Josh Carlson had the look of a college pitcher early on in the first game. He was throwing an impressive fastball that was humming and mixing in a slow curveball that had...
HURLEY –Tim Steiger of Bessemer and Scott Erickson of Hurley slogged through some very wet playing conditions on Sunday and shot a 139 total to win the Championship Flight in this weekend’s Battle of the Bluff golf tournament at the Eagle Bluff Golf Club. “It was really hard,” Steiger said. “The course was good, but the fairways were real wet.” Golfers said there were periods of hard rain during their rounds on the final day. Erickson and Steiger shot a two-over par 72 on Sunday with birdie...
NORWAY, Mich. — Baseball coaches like to say that teams that play solid defense and pitch well (with few walks) are likely to come out on the winning end of ball games. On Friday afternoon in Norway, Stephenson used that simple formula to down Ironwood 8-1 in the opening round Division IV District Tournament. "It was a real good team effort," Stephenson manager Dan Koller said. "We played a clean game and the defense did its job (no errors). If you make the plays on defense, you've got a good s...
WAKEFIELD — The Bessemer boys and girls track teams swept the Porcupine Mountain Conference meet in Wakefield on Tuesday afternoon. The Speedgirls built up point total leads in the hurdle events, the 200 meter dash and the 3,200 meter run as they cruised to an 86-69 win over the Cardinals. Watersmeet was third with seven points. The Cardinals shut out Bessemer in the long jump and put up big points in the 800 meter run. On the boys side, Bessemer was strong in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meter r...
BESSEMER — On the boys side, Wakefield-Marenisco won its first Marcy Bracket Invitational since 2002 and Ontonagon edged Bessemer 98 points to 95.5 in the girls division. Even though temperatures hovered in the low 40s, three new meet records were set. Bethany Engel of W-M set the high jump record (5-2), while Cole Stevens of Ironwood jumped 12-6 in the pole vault and Tony Soumis of Ontonagon blazed to 23.56 in the 200 meters and both boys were new record-holders. Boys 1. Wakefield-Marenisco 9...
WAKEFIELD — Eric Lane and Caleb Winkler, of Wakefield-Marenisco High School, recently signed NJCAA National Letters of Intent and Scholarship Agreement forms to play for Mesabi Range Community and Technical College in Virginia, Minn. During the past winter, Mesabi coach Dan Lind visited with Winkler and Lane at their school. The two former Gogebic Miner football players quickly realized Mesabi offered a number of things they were looking for. First, it was a good school and it was a small s...
HURLEY — In baseball’s equivalent of the Border Bowl, the Hurley baseball team swept a pitcher-depleted Ironwood team 9-1 and 16-8 in Indianhead Conference action at the Hurley K-12 field on Thursday. Game 1 — Hurley 9, Ironwood 1 The Ironwood Red Devil baseball season has turned into a roller-coaster ride. After posting a 16-5 record last season and having almost everyone back, the forecast was looked positive for another impressive season. But Ironwood’s No. 1 and No. 2 pitchers (Adam Mackey...
HURLEY — In dominating fashion, Hurley blitzed Butternut 17-4 and 18-4 as Hurley's hitting attack came to life with 35 runs and 35 hits. Game 1 — Hurley 17, Butternut 4 The strangest part of the first game of the doubleheader was that Butternut took a 3-0 lead after one inning. Butternut's Riley Christian was safe on an error, Ryan Prellwitz walked and Steven Scherwinski hit a frozen rope single to right field. Christian tried to score from second base but was gunned down on a strong throw fro...
BUTTERNUT, Wis. — The Ironwood baseball team got out the brooms and swept Butternut in both games of a doubleheader in Indianhead Conference play on Tuesday night. The Red Devils have started off the year at 3-0. Game 1 - Ironwood 8, Butternut 7 Butternut led 7-5 after four innings, but Ironwood scored three times in final inning to edge the Midgets 8-7 in game one of the doubleheader Tuesday night. Ironwood sophomore Brett Ossanna started and gave up two walks, a double and a home run to G...
IRONWOOD — Professional snocross racer Kyle Pallin of Ironwood recently celebrated his 22nd birthday — in Sweden. It wasn’t that Pallin has become a jet-setter flying all over the world. After finishing his second season as a pro in the Amsoil Championship Snocross Series, he was invited by a Swedish friend, Mats Lauger, to culminate his season with four races in Sweden. Lauger had raced on the American circuit and he and Pallin became friends during the 2011-12 racing season. Lauger set Pallin...
GREEN BAY, Wis. — People say you can never go home again. University of Wisconsin-Green Bay women’s basketball coach, Kevin Borseth, is living proof that this expression can be untrue, at least in regard to Borseth’s coaching career and his travels throughout the Midwest. Many people in this area know of the Bessemer native’s coaching journey but some do not. Every place that Borseth has coached, from Gogebic Community College to Michigan Tech University to UW-Green Bay twice and to the Univers...
