Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — Rivals Ewen-Trout Creek and Bessemer can usually be counted on for some pretty entertaining matchups, whether it’s in the district tournament, or for positioning in the league. Tuesday night was not one of those games. The Panthers were nevertheless happy to take the 43-33 low-scoring win. “Anytime you can win on the road when you’re not scoring it worth a darn is good,” E-TC coach Brad Besonen said. Both teams are battling injuries. Bessemer missed Leland Hollenbeck, who should return af...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com EWEN — One week into the season and Ewen-Trout Creek already appears to be living up to the preseason hype. First, they went to Norway and won 61-35 over the Knights while holding All-U.P. First Team selection Lauren Adams to just four points. Then, they hosted Ironwood and fended off one of their biggest challengers in the Copper Mountain Conference for a 58-35 victory Friday night. They smothered the Red Devils’ top two scorers, who combined for eight points. “Ewen is probably one of the top teams...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — Bessemer has some pretty strong options inside with bigs Audrey Stone and Maddie Guglielmotto. Ironwood made sure they didn’t get the ball very often as they blitzed the Speedgirls for a 56-13 victory Tuesday night. “That was definitely the game plan going in, to limit scoring opportunities for the bigs inside,” Ironwood coach Jesse Mackey said. “I thought our girls had great position all night and our guards brought a lot of pressure to their guards. They couldn’t even get the pass in.” B...
EWEN - The 13th annual Southern Ontonagon County Thanksgiving dinner was deemed a huge success in Ewen. "The weather held and we were able to bring the community together for indoor dining at the Centennial Hall and also offered pick-up and delivery to those home-bound," said Melanie Pelkola of Trout Creek. She and her husband, Ken Pelkola, prepared 130 meals together with their children, grandchildren, other family members and a core group of volunteers. The free event consisted of a...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — The younger team led all night, but the more experienced group made the plays in crunch time as Ironwood rallied past Wakefield-Marenisco for an improbable 50-48 season-opening win Monday night. The Cardinals led 48-39 after a Chase Lane 3 early in the fourth quarter, but they didn’t score again. W-M turned it over to Ironwood with 58.5 seconds left and the Devils’ returning All-U.P. player, Axton Ruotsala, pulled up for a long 2 to tie the game at 48. He then stole the inbound pass, givin...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com LANSING — The MHSAA is going all in on seeding for its boys and girls district basketball tournaments in the spring. The state had only dipped its toes into seeding for the last several years — it ranked only the top two teams with the goal of the best teams meeting in the district final. But that’s all it did. The higher seeded teams weren’t guaranteed to get the home games it seemingly earned and the 1 seeds didn’t always get to play the weaker teams leading up to the district final. Now all of the te...
BRUCE CROSSING, Mich. - Michael William Pietila, 64, of Bruce Crossing, passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. Mike was born in Phelps, Wisconsin, on Dec. 10, 1959, to Gerald W. "Bill" and Barbara (Hines) Pietila and was the oldest of five sons. He attended Ewen-Trout Creek School as part of the 1978 graduating class. Mike went on to have a successful career in the propane industry, where he was known for his quality of work, kindness and determination to help others. He was an... Full story
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com MARQUETTE — Wakefield-Marenisco junior Noelle Grace earned a spot on the All-U.P. volleyball team for the second year in a row. After making the Division 4 First Team last year, Grace this year became one of 16 Dream Team selections in voting at last week’s second annual volleyball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. Ironwood’s Audra Pawlak and Hanna Vaughn were selected to the Division 1-3 First Team with a trio of Ewen-Trout Creek players named to the Division 4 F...
By MEGAN HUGHES news@yourdailyglobe.com GOGEBIC RANGE — Area schools are preparing for the holiday season, announcing their respective holiday and Christmas concerts. Below is a list of the upcoming concerts, dates and locations. Gogebic County Ironwood Ironwood will offer five separate concerts this season, dividing them by class and by type of concert. The first concert, featuring the middle school band and choir, will be held this Sunday at the Historic Ironwood Theatre from 2 to 4 p.m. The sixth grade concert will be on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. i...
By BRENDA MOSELEY news@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - Students from six different area high schools in three counties joined forces on Nov. 15 to offer a concert at the Historic Ironwood Theatre. Members of the Gogebic Range Honors Band played under the direction of renowned director John Lynch of Wisconsin. The Gogebic Range Honors Band program is an opportunity for select young band members to train together with a guest conductor. According to promotional material, the kids "come to the...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Austyn Oshen Johnson of Bruce Crossing, Michigan, passed away on Oct. 31, 2024, in Minneapolis, at Fairview Children's Hospital. He was born in Ironwood, Michigan, to Erik and Tara Johnson on June 20, 2006. Austyn went to school at Ewen-Trout Creek High School in Ewen. He loved being in school. Austyn loved to travel, go riding in the side by side, swimming in our pool, going to movies and watching football. In 2021, Austyn was given a Make-A-Wish vacation to Legoland in Sch... Full story
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com EWEN — The Ewen-Trout Creek girls keep adding hardware to the trophy case. And it’s not even basketball season yet. After winning their first U.P. cross country title last month, the Panthers won the MHSAA Division 4 District 97 volleyball title with a four-set win over Wakefield-Marenisco Thursday night. It was E-TC’s first district volleyball title since the MHSAA combined the U.P. and L.P. tournaments into one state tournament in 2000. While the Panthers were favored going into the U.P. cross count...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com HOUGHTON — Ewen-Trout Creek couldn’t pull off two upsets in a row as the No. 2-ranked team in the Upper Peninsula, Hancock, ended their historic season with a 3-0 sweep of the Panthers in Tuesday night’s MHSAA Division 4 regional semifinal. The Bulldogs made the short drive over the Portage Lake Lift Bridge to Houghton High School and jumped on the Panthers for a 25-8, 25-10, 25-20 victory. Hancock’s schedule is as tough as anyone’s in the U.P. They are one of only two U.P. teams to take a set from big sc...
BY SARAH LAUZON Intern to The Globe news@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — Monday will be Veterans Day, and on this important holiday, many area schools are holding services open to both their respective student bodies and the public. The timing for each service in the tri-county region is as follows: Iron County The Hurley School District service will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the high school gymnasium. The Mercer School District service will start at 10 a.m. in the high school gymnasium. Gogebic County The Ironwood Area School District s...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — Ironwood’s Aubrey Smith added another honor to her special senior season. The Division 2 U.P. champion was named to the All-U.P. Dream Team by the U.P. Cross Country Coaches Association after the season. Smith was the only D-2 runner on the seven-member Dream Team. She was joined on the team by U.P. Runner of the Year, Pickford’s Talya Schreiber, who won the D-3 title; two-time D-1 champion Tessa Rautiola of Houghton, who competed against Smith at many regular-season meets; Marquette’s Ella Fu...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — GCC hopes a grueling schedule to start the season will make them better the rest of the way. The Samsons start with a string of long-distance road trips — they played at downstate Petoskey over the weekend, head to Iowa Falls this weekend with trips to Milwaukee, Kansas and Escanaba before their home opener against Bay College on Nov. 26. One of those games is against defending national champion Hutchinson CC in Kansas, which was ranked No. 1 in the Division I preseason poll. They play Roc...
By Valerie Talsma Special to The Globe EWEN - The Blessing of the Quilts is an autumn ritual at many Lutheran churches in October each year. At First Lutheran Church in Ewen, more than 90 brightly colored quilts were displayed throughout the sanctuary for this year's dedication before being transported out for use around the world. Like the gospel story of "The Fishes and the Loaves," dedicated crafters transform a few scraps into comfort for thousands. Year after year, the quilts are the...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com MUNISING — Ironwood’s Aubrey Smith and the Ewen-Trout Creek girls lived up to expectations on Saturday as they became U.P. champions at the Upper Peninsula cross country finals at Pictured Rocks Golf Course. — — — Division 2 Smith had recorded the fastest time among the Division 2 runners during the regular season and she led the entire race Saturday, finishing in under 20 minutes with a time of 19:57, more than 25 seconds ahead of runner-up Ella Keranen of Hancock. There’s some pressure to being the f...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — Four Ewen-Trout Creek girls placed in the top 10 at the final Copper Mountain Conference meet of the season Thursday at Gogebic Country Club in Ironwood, giving them their sixth straight meet victory of the season. Their success throughout the season earned them the league’s Team of the Year award. Ironwood’s Aubrey Smith has been the best individual runner throughout the season; she won her home meet Thursday and earned the league’s Most Valuable Runner award. The Panthers are hoping to wrap...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - William "Bill" Olson, 70, of Wakefield, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, at Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth, Minnesota, surrounded by his loving family. Bill was born on March 9, 1954, in Wakefield, to the late Vernon and Luella "Lolly" Olson. Bill graduated from Wakefield High School with the class of 1972. He continued his education and graduated from Gogebic Community College. Bill worked for the city of Wakefield in the water department for 35... Full story
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — Ontonagon got back on track, ending a two-game skid with a 32-20 victory over Ironwood Friday night. “That was a must-win for us there,” Ontonagon coach Kadin Mustafa said. “We’ve got a tough schedule the rest of the way and this was a pretty good team.” It proved to be a frustrating loss for the shorthanded Red Devils, who kept Ontonagon’s big-play offense from putting up crazy numbers but also committing costly penalties and giving up a key fumble. “It stings looking back, for sure,” Iron...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — North Central continued to proof it’s still a top-five team in the Upper Peninsula with a 50-8 victory over visiting Ironwood Friday night. The Jets have been ranked fifth in the past two U.P. 8-player polls. They’re 4-1 this year after an 8-3 campaign last year that saw their state-record 41 game winning-steak come to end. They might not be that dominant anymore, but they’re still plenty good. “Super big, super fast, super athletic,” Ironwood coach Kevin Lane said. “Their defensive lin...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com EWEN — Gogebic rushed for 124 yards, scored three touchdowns, intercepted Ontonagon twice and stopped them another two times on downs. Then the first quarter ended. The Miners did it again in the second quarter, putting up another 21 points before Ontonagon got in the end zone for the first time. They rode that fast start that saw them lead 42-0 to a 56-21 Great Lakes Eight West win Friday night at Ewen-Trout Creek. The Miners kept Ontonagon’s big-play offense in check and countered with a rushing att...
By JASON JUNO sports@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — The Gogebic Miners put a stop to their two-game losing streak with an 84-6 victory over Carney-Nadeau Friday night. “It’s good to see have the kids have success,” Gogebic coach Nick Heikkila said. The Miners jumped ahead quickly with six first-quarter touchdowns by five different players. Jayden Verrett scored twice, on a fumble recovery and an 18-yard run, and Aiden Partanen, Mark Switzer, Cory Aspinwall and Jace Symons also ran in scores. Verrett added his third touchdown in the second...
