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SUPERIOR, Wis. - Ironwood's Jared Joki won the 800-meter run by an even narrower margin than the day before as Joki and Rachel Hudacek were the Red Devils' winners at the 37th annual Dennis Simpson Invitational. Joki edged Superior's Robert McClarey by .11 second, winning the 800 run in 2:06.87. Joki won the same event by .25 second at Northland Pines' indoor invitational Thursday. McClarey led much of the race until Joki was able to make it neck-and-neck down the final straightaway. Both leaned...
EAGLE RIVER, Wis. - With snow falling back home Thursday, Ironwood, Wakefield-Marenisco and Watersmeet went inside to Northland Pines to start their track-and-field season. Class A Marquette dominated both the boys and girls meets. Ironwood was sixth in the girls with W-M seventh and Watersmeet eight. The Ironwood boys were fifth, W-M seventh and the Nimrods eight. The Red Devils' Jared Joki edged Northland Pines' Kody Radtke by a quarter of a second to take the 800-meter run, the only...
IRONWOOD - A longtime Ironwood high school ski coach whose tenure lasted five decades tops the 2015 induction class of several individuals and a team voted on by members of the Ironwood Area Sports Hall of Fame Foundation at a recent meeting. Along with coach Theron Peterson and 1943 football team, inductees are: John Serbin, the finest offensive performer on Bob Black's 1928 football team; Shawn McMullin, an all-around male athlete who garnered 11 letters in the early 1990s; Pete Kopecko, the...
HURLEY - With all the success the Hurley football program has had, it's hard to find many firsts. But senior Jordan Moore (5-10, 265) will be the first Midget to play in the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association/Children's Hospital Small School All-Star Football Game at Titan Stadium in Oshkosh, Wis., on July 18 at 2 p.m. "It's just a great honor to be representing Hurley," Moore said. "To be the first one to go and play is a great feeling." Moore, a defensive and offensive tackle, will play...
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Tim Buerger of Ironwood won the United States Snowshoe Association 5-kilometer junior men's national championship at Eau Claire, Wis., on Feb. 28. He finished with the same time as Tyler Dezago of Paul Smiths, N.Y., 21:39.4, but finished just ahead of Dezago. Buerger allowed others to lead the first mile. He then led for 1.5 miles despite falling three times on an icy trail that went through the woods and up and down hills. Dezago came to the final 100-yard straightaway in the...
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Hurley's Aiyana Nickel started the track-and-field season with a win in the 200-meter dash at Thursday's Tomahawk Indoor Invitational at UW-Eau Claire. She finished the race in 29.34 seconds. She also placed in the long jump (fourth) and triple jump (seventh). Susan Walesewicz finished seventh in the 1,600 run. The Hurley girls took ninth as Tomahawk won the meet. The Hurley boys finished 10th while Black River Falls won. Kris Bluse led the Midgets with a third-place finish in the high jump. He was also fifth in the 55 h...
ESCANABA — Tickets are available for the 44th annual Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet. The banquet is May 9 at Island Resort and Casino in Harris, 15 miles west of Escanaba on U.S. 2-41. It is the fourth year at this location after being held in Escanaba, Iron Mountain and Marquette in previous years. Tickets are $25 per person and must be purchased and/or ordered by May 1. They are available throughout the Upper Peninsula from members of the UPSHF executive council. The banquet begins at 6 p.m. (EDT) in the room behind the...
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Like many basketball fans, this is Bessemer native Kevin Borseth's favorite time of the year. That's because the NCAA Basketball Tournaments are getting underway. But Borseth doesn't just watch the games. He is lucky enough, and good enough, to participate in them as the head coach of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's women's basketball team. After posting a 27-4 overall record and winning its 17th-consecutive Horizon League regular season title, this past Sunday the Phoenix...
MARQUETTE - Ironwood didn't have an answer for Iron Mountain's physical presence inside and the Red Devils' season ended in a 72-52 loss in Monday's Class C regional semifinal. The Moutaineers, 21-2 and ranked second in the final U.P. Class ABC poll of the season, started fast, leading 17-4 going into the second quarter. The Devils made three straight 3s to start the second and pull within 17-13, but Iron Mountain scored the next 15 points to thwart Ironwood's comeback effort. The Red Devils sea...
IRONWOOD — When the Ironwood Red Devils defeated Calumet last week in the MHSAA Class C District 96 title game, it was the first time Ironwood had won back-to-back district tournaments since 1993 and 1994. The last one came 21 years ago and Red Devil coach Pete Lewinski was in his first two years of coaching varsity basketball in Ironwood. “The (team) records favored us and I thought we were a little tense in the first game,” Lewinski said. “We played not to lose. In the second game, we played much better and (Jake) DiGiorgio took over in the...
WAKEFIELD - Crystal Falls Forest Park has such big, strong, athletic teams that have played in so many pressure-packed football and basketball games, you must bring your A game when playing the Trojans to have any chance to win. That was especially true in Friday's MHSAA Class D District 127 tournament title game at Cardinal Gym, where the Bessemer Speedboys fell to Forest Park 75-42. "I'd give us an A for effort and a D minus for our shooting," Bessemer coach Jim Partanen said. "Overall, I'd sa...
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Megan Gustafson and the South Shore girls did all they could to dig themselves out of a first-half hole Thursday, but it just wasn't enough. Wisconsin Rapids Assumption opened up a 35-16 halftime lead and went on to defeat the Cardinals 57-43 in a WIAA girls Division 5 state semifinal at the Resch Center. The Royals will meet Barneveld in Saturday's state title game. This will be the third straight year the teams will play for the gold ball. Barneveld routed Fall River 66-34...
KINGSFORD - Ontonagon showed it could compete with Crystal Falls Forest Park in the second half of Tuesday's MHSAA Class D regional semifinal. But it was too late by then. The Trojans jumped to a 29-5 halftime lead, taking advantage of an Ontonagon scoring drought that lasted approximately 10 minutes. Forest Park picked up a 50-28 win to advance to the regional final against Munising back in Kingsford Thursday. Munising beat Bark River-Harris 48-45 in Tuesday's nightcap. Tuesday just wasn't...
IRONWOOD - L'Anse didn't have much of an answer for Ironwood inside, but with the 3-point shot falling, the Purple Hornets were able to give the much taller Red Devils a scare. Ironwood survived, thanks in part to shooting 16 of 20 at the free throw line in the fourth quarter, for a 58-48 victory Monday in a MHSAA Class C District 96 semifinal. "I thought we were rusty," said coach Pete Lewinski, whose Devils hadn't played since a Feb. 24 win over Wakefield-Marenisco. "Maybe their fine play had...
WAKEFIELD - Wakefield-Marenisco came from behind to defeat Watersmeet 56-53 in a first round game of the MHSAA Class D District 127 Tournament on Monday night. Not very often does a freshman move up from the junior varsity to the varsity for the district tournament and not only play well but become a difference-maker in the game. In trying not to make too much of a big deal over one game, but fans in the Cardinal Gym were shocked by Jacob Suzik's performance. Watersmeet took a 24-21 lead by...
PHILLIPS, Wis. - Coach Mike Swartz never stopped believing his Hurley Midgets would be playing in Saturday's WIAA Division 4 regional final. Even after the team's 0-5 start. Hurley's 10-game winning streak came to an end as No. 1 Phillips eliminated the No. 3 Midgets 70-46 in Saturday's regional final. They overcame early injuries to Mitchell Maki and Jake Tenlen and went from that 0-5 start to a second-place finish in the Indianhead Conference's East Division and then to Saturday's trophy...
WATERSMEET - The Crystal Falls Forest Park Trojans captured the MHSAA Class D District 127 championship with a 56-43 victory over Wakefield-Marenisco in Nimrod Nation on Friday night. It was the fifth district title in a row for Forest Park. "We had to build a program and it took years to build," CFFP coach Jackie Guiliani said. "It's a tradition now and the girls want to be part of it. We talk to the girls a lot about being physically and mentally tough in the tournament and you have to play...
BESSEMER - This group of Bessemer seniors made one more lasting memory in their final game at the House of Noise. They won the final Porcupine Mountain Conference title by dominating Ewen-Trout Creek 85-57 Thursday night. The PMC is merging with the Copper Country Conference next year. What a way for the final PMC championship to be decided, with a title game between 4-1 teams. The Speedboys just took the drama out of it with a dominating performance. "This was for our seniors, our last home...
WATERSMEET - Watersmeet and freshman Bethany Baldwin started with a 9-2 lead and an upset in mind. But Crystal Falls Forest Park didn't panic. The Trojans never do. Forest Park had the lead by the end of the first quarter and went on to win 64-35 in Wednesday's MHSAA Class D District 127 semifinal at Nimrod Nation. Forest Park plays Wakefield-Marenisco (19-3) Friday in the district final at 6 p.m. in Watersmeet. Baldwin scored all 11 of Watersmeet's first-quarter points as the Nimrods forced...
WATERSMEET - Wakefield-Marenisco started what it hopes is a long postseason run with a 64-37 victory over Ewen-Trout Creek in the MHSAA Class D District 127 tournament. The Cardinals' lead ballooned from 16-7 after one quarter to 38-12 at the half. "We started out a little sluggish, but once we got the cobwebs worked out, we played really well," W-M coach Pete Yon said. "We were pushing the ball upcourt, we got back on defense, we shot well tonight. That intermediate jump shot, we were hitting...
IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College Lady Samsons had high hopes and aspirations for the NJCAA Division II Region 13 tournament, so it was a bitter pill to swallow when they fell to Dakota College of Bottineau 91-82 in the championship game at the Lindquist Center on Sunday afternoon. "It's a tough loss, especially for the sophomores," Gogebic coach Mark Movrich said. "Five months together and all of a sudden-boom-it's over. Both teams played hard, they're playing for the championship. It...
HURLEY - Phillips missed 20 free throws, but one of them helped the Loggers pull off a big upset in Hurley Friday night. The No. 3 seed Loggers' defeated No. 2 Hurley 52-47 in overtime during Friday's WIAA Division 4 regional semifinal. Trailing 47-46, Phillips missed two free throws again. The second one, though, came off the rim in a favorable position for Phillips' Makala Williams', who put it in to put Phillips ahead 48-47 with 1:07 left. It was a lead the Loggers never lost. Phillips split...
WAKEFIELD - After a sluggish first seven minutes, the Ironwood Red Devils played with a sense of urgency and blitzed Wakefield-Marenisco 69-35 in the final Indianhead Conference game for both teams on Tuesday night. "We didn't practice well yesterday and we didn't play well in the first seven minutes," Ironwood coach Pete Lewinski said. "I wasn't happy. With one minute left, the light went on. We started to get the ball inside to Jake DiGiorgio and his scoring opened things up for Sharrow on...
WAKEFIELD - Wakefield-Marenisco wrapped up the Porcupine Mountain Conference title outright with a 66-31 victory over Ewen-Trout Creek Monday night. It was W-M's first PMC title since 2004. The Cardinals also won a share of the Indianhead East Division with Hurley. "We're excited about that," W-M coach Pete Yon said. "Hopefully we can carry some of this momentum into the tournament." The Cardinals came out with good intensity and led 40-18 at halftime on parents' night in their last home game of...
HURLEY - Defense helped Hurley win a share of an Indianhead Conference East Division championship. Now the Midgettes are hoping it brings them a regional trophy. The Midgettes (17-5) gave up 50 or more points just twice this season on their way to a 10th straight Indianhead title – they've taken the East Division title all four years since the conference split into divisions. Now they are looking for their first regional title since 2012. "The next (goal) on our list is winning a regional," Hurl...
