Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By PAT KRAUSE sports@yourdaily globe.com HURLEY — The Hurley Midgets played well but fell to a tough Tomahawk team 5-4 in non-conference action on Saturday morning. With the game tied at 4-4 after six innings, the Hatchets pushed across what turned out to be the winning run in the seventh inning. In Hurley's last-at-bat, the Midgets had runners on second and third but couldn't get the crucial hit to bring them in. "It was a close, competitive game," Hurley manager Aaron Bender said. "They are a very good team. We played real well and had g...
MARQUETTE — Ironwood’s career leading scorer is also its first Dream Team player since 2006. Senior Adam Mackey was voted to the All-U.P. Dream Team during Wednesday’s 64th annual boys basketball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. The last Dream Team player in Ironwood was Mike Pawlak, who is married to Adam’s sister, Caitlin. Joining Mackey on the all-class team were: Negaunee senior Tyler Jandron, Cedarville junior Joey Duncan, North Central senior Travis Vincent and Escanaba senior Brandon Robinet...
MARQUETTE — Bessemer’s Ben Zielinski stepped into the spotlight in his senior year, while Ironwood’s Jacob DiGiorgio has another year left on the hardwood. Both were selected to the All-U.P. team at Wednesday’s 64th annual meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. Zielinski was selected to the Class D Second Team with DiGiorgio making Second Team in Class ABC. Zielinski led the Speedboys to a Porcupine Mountain Conference championship and a near-upset of Crystal Falls Forest Park in the district tournam...
BESSEMER — Everything — everything — was stacked against Bessemer Tuesday. The fourth-ranked Class ABC team in the U.P., Ironwood, opened up a 17-4 lead on the Speedboys, which had lost three of their last four, and now were dealing with an ankle injury to leading scorer Ben Zielinski. The Speedboys, though, came back and pulled the surprising upset, 46-45 over their archrivals, on a buzzer beater by Lance Berwald, his only points of the entire game. “They were huge,” Bessemer coach Jim Partanen said. “It's a nice win. I hope the monkey's of...
WASHBURN, Wis. - Once Washburn's high-powered offense moved into high gear, there was no stopping it. After putting up just 22 points in the first half, the Castle Guards scored 27 in the fourth quarter to move past Ironwood - which had led most of the game - 68-59 in a battle of Indianhead Conference division leaders Tuesday night. Each team won at home in the season series but only Tuesday's game counted in the conference standings. "That was two good basketball teams. That was two really...
IRONWOOD - In a non-conference game that had the feel of something much bigger, the tall and talented Ironwood Red Devils showed they could rise up in a big game and carved out a 65-58 win over Washburn on Tuesday night. The game generated a lively interest among fans since both teams were undefeated in their divisions of the Indianhead Conference. Washburn was 7-0 in the West Division (10-1 overall) and Ironwood was atop of the East with an 8-0 record (8-1 overall). The Red Devils were also ran...
HURLEY - Ironwood played well and Hurley did not. It was that simple and it led to Ironwood getting off to a good start early in the new year by downing Hurley 57-46 in an important Indianhead Conference rivalry game on Thursday night. "At times, we looked really good and at times we had some breakdowns," Red Devil coach Pete Lewinski said. "Overall, we did a good job. It seemed like we had a bitter taste from the Ashland game (a 64-37 loss). It was just that we could have given them a better...
HURLEY - Girls basketball in this area had been wildly unpredictable in the early stages of the season, and when Hurley lost two of its four games, there was talk that perhaps the Midgettes' reign of championship basketball was in jeopardy. But Hurley proved on Friday night that it was too soon to start writing that book as they convincingly defeated Ironwood 54-28 in an Indianhead Conference rivalry game. "We're not last year's team," Hurley coach Melissa Oja said. "We're this year's team and w...
IRONWOOD - It was a game that seemed destined for overtime after it was tied after one quarter, a one-point game at the half, tied at the end of three quarters and tied through much of the fourth quarter. In what will be of thought of as one the most exciting games of the year, Ironwood defeated the Bessemer Speedgirls in overtime 48-44 at the John Krznarich Gym on Friday night. "We knew if we played our best we could beat them," said Ironwood's Jessica Gering, who had a dream night of 24...
IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Red Devils put high school basketball teams on notice that they will be a force to be reckoned with this season with a 75-46 thumping of Wakefield-Marenisco in the season opener for both teams on Monday night. It was also an Indianhead Conference game for both schools. 'Ironwood is really a good team," Cardinal coach Terry Fetters said. "I said before I think they're the team to beat in the Indianhead Conference. They have height, depth, and move the ball well on...
IRONWOOD — In the season-opener for both teams, a third-quarter surge lifted Ironwood to a 37-31 victory over Wakefield-Marenisco in an Indianhead Conference battle at the John Krznarich Gym on Tuesday night. With both teams seeming to have the first game jitters, the Cardinals opened up a 19-16 halftime advantage. The first two quarters (and the whole game) were not a thing of beauty. The basket seemed to have a lid on it as the Red Devils knocked down five of 28 shots (18 percent) and the Card...
GLADSTONE - It was a long bus ride to Delta County and a short stay in the Class C regional volleyball tournament for the Ironwood Red Devils as they fell to the Calumet Copper Kings 25-22, 25-11, 25-7 in Tuesday's opener. The Copper Kings needed just 55 minutes to seal the verdict as they seized the momentum behind an eight-point service run by junior Catherine Frantti for a 9-2 lead in the second set. "Calumet is definitely a tough team," said Ironwood coach Lisa Graham. "They have some big hi...
IRON RIVER - Ironwood, with senior Jessica Gering firing a match-best 13 kills and plenty of support from a festive student cheering section, claimed the Class C District 95 volleyball final here Thursday night at Charles Greenlund Gymnasium, holding off the Mountaineers 26-24, 25-16, 25-23. "Gering, she's our senior leader out there, and she had one of her better games tonight," said Ironwood coach Lisa Graham, who thinks it's been at least 15 years since Ironwood won a district championship....
IRONWOOD — Many high school football teams in Michigan measure a successful regular season by whether or not they make the MHSAA playoffs. The Gogebic Miners qualified for the Division 8 football playoffs on a cold Friday night by defeating Ironwood, 35-16, in their regular-season finale at Longyear Field. It was the second straight year Gogebic finished with a 6-3 record and earned a playoff berth. Coach Mark Mazzon said he could not recall the last time a team he coached from Bessemer or B...
CALUMET — With a belly slide in the end zone, the Calumet Copper Kings ended a slide of their own Friday. Calumet put itself into the win column at Agassiz Field, holding off a second-half Ironwood rally to defeat the Red Devils 26-14 in both teams’ final WestPAC games of the season. “I’m just proud everyone kept believing in what we do around here,” Calumet coach John Croze said. The Kings (1-7, 1-5 WestPAC) have been beset by injuries throughout the season, with six seniors alone out for t...
IRONWOOD — In the Indianhead Conference second-place crossover volleyball game, Washburn needed five sets to edge Ironwood 25-19, 27-25, 16-25, 24-26 and 15-11. Both teams had finished second in their division, Ironwood in the East and Washburn in the West. Both were considered real good teams. and it figured to be a close match. “It was really was a good game,” Ironwood coach Lisa Graham said. “This was one of our best nights of the year, even though we lost. It was all-around, good volleybal...
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...
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 TOWNSHIP — Ironwood jumped out to a 4-0 first-half lead and went on to beat Three Lakes 5-1 Tuesday in the Red Devils’ final home game of the year. Senior Bryant Rowe picked up a hat trick on Senior Night. “The kids were fired up for this game,” Ironwood coach Don Cvengros said. “We’ve been starting slow at home for some reason. Tonight they were ready. They wanted this one.” Ironwood’s Riley Jarocki was cleared by a doctor to play and he scored the game’s first goal on an assist by J...
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...
HURLEY — Ironwood swept Hurley, playing five matches and not losing a set Tuesday. The Red Devils surrendered just seven games to Hurley. A close contest came at the beginning of the first set in No. 1 doubles. Ironwood’s team of Rachel Pallin and Payton Aho duked it out in the first set against Hurley’s Mikayla Sobrack and Hannah Huotari. Sobrack played aggressive net tennis, partnered with Houtari’s strong baseline game, earning Hurley an early 3-2 game lead. Rattled a bit, Pallin and Aho dug...
