Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By PAT KRAUSE [email protected] IRONWOOD – The Gogebic Community College volleyball team split two matches on Saturday in the Lady Samsons volleyball triangular at the Lindquist Center Gym. Gogebic swept UW Barron County 25-13, 25-7 and 25-18 but fell to Dakota County Technical College 25-20, 25-21 and 25-21. DCTC defeated both teams in three straight sets. GCC volleyball coach Aaron Bender was pleased with his team's play against UW Barron County. "We had a nice first game," Bender s...
HURLEY - Hurley was as shocked Friday as Crystal Falls Forest Park was last week. Northland Pines came back from a 23-6 deficit to hand Hurley a 37-31 non-conference loss at Veterans Memorial Field. That came one week after the Midgets came back from a 14-6 deficit in the final 6:30 to win at Crystal Falls. This time, everything went against Hurley in the second half when a fast Pines team outscored the Midgets 31-15, including the final 19 points in the final seven minutes. "We didn't have...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Three Lakes came back from an early 2-0 deficit to force overtime and beat Ironwood 5-3. It wasn't sudden death as Three Lakes scored once in each overtime. Ironwood coach Don Cvengros said it was a tough game to lose, but it was the best game his team has played this year. "We got tired," he said. Ironwood scored the first two goals. "We started off really well," Cvengros said. "I was extremely pleased with the boys. They were ready to go tonight. They were fired up. They...
CRYSTAL FALLS - It took 14 years, and all 48 minutes before Hurley could leave Dick Mettlach Field and Crystal Falls happy. And were they ever happy. Hurley crafted a comeback for the ages, scoring 12 unanswered points in the final 6:30 of the fourth quarter, including a one-yard touchdown run by Devin Czerneski as time expired to give Hurley the 18-14 win. Since joining the conference in 2000, Hurley had never won here. That included their last visit here when the Midgets tripled the offensive...
BESSEMER - Although Bessemer continued to show improvement, the young and inexperienced Speedgirls were no match for the seasoned and talented Ironwood team. The Red Devils showed they will be the right in the mix for the Indianhead Conference East Division title with a 25-9, 25-19 and 25-9 win in the House of Noise on Thursday. Ironwood hitter Emily DiGiorgio is enthused about her team and her teammates. "So far, we're doing really well and we'll only get better," DiGiorgio said. "Tonight, we p...
HURLEY - Hurley found out this week that it was hosting a cross country meet. On Thursday, the girls won the team title by a single point over Washburn, 40-41. The trails in Oulu, Wis., were too wet for a race and it turned out to be a nice, sunny day in Hurley. Washburn and third-place South Shore both had two runners in the top four. Hurley only had two runners in the top 10, Gabby Pecotte, sixth, and Kirkie Pecotte, seventh. But the next four Hurley runners came in with only one Washburn...
HURLEY - Ironwood picked up its first win of the season with a 7-0 sweep of Hurley Tuesday. Ironwood won every contest in two sets. Close matches were had early on at No. 2 singles and No. 1 and 2 doubles, as Ironwood took a 3-2 lead in each set before Ironwood played more aggressively to finish out each set and match. Despite Ironwood's edge, long points were played in all contests. Ironwood (1-5) travels to West Iron County Tuesday. Ironwood def. Hurley (7-0) Singles No. 1: Katie Piispanen...
IRONWOOD - They stood out on the wet grass of Longyear Field with smiles on their faces and savored what they had just done. They were the Ironwood Red Devils football players and what they were savoring was their first football victory since Sept. 7, 2012. Ironwood broke a streak of 16 losses in a row with an 18-6 triumph over Washburn-Bayfield-South Shore in non-conference play on Friday night. It was a sweet win for the Red Devils. "We waited way too long for this one," senior quarterback Den...
HURLEY - It was a frustrating night for Hurley Friday with two touchdowns called back due to penalties. But it was an even more frustrating night for Lake Linden. The Midgets overcame all the hardships and outscored the Lakes 22-0 in the second half for a 28-6 Great Western Conference victory. "I'm most proud of the way the kids handled the second half after everything went bad in the first half," Hurley coach Scott Erickson said. "Things weren't looking good and they rallied up at halftime and...
BESSEMER - Ewen-Trout Creek picked up a road Porcupine Mountain Conference victory over a young Bessemer team Thursday, 3-1. The Panthers won 25-15, 25-22, 19-25, 25-21. "It was a lot of passion by the girls," new E-TC coach Brandon Ward said. "The girls have been working so hard, so well deserving of this. They played two close games before this; I'm just happy to see the ball went our way tonight. The team we played tonight was awesome." The Speedgirls fought back after dropping the first two...
IRONWOOD - For Hurley, eight was great, but nine straight Border Bowl wins over Ironwood was even better as the Midgets rolled over the Red Devils 48-6 on a soggy Longyear Field Friday night. The series began in 1919 and the two ancient rivals have met 82 times on the gridiron. Ironwood still leads the long series 48-31-3 but has not defeated Hurley since 2005, when they went to the state quarterfinals that year. Ironwood pulled within 14-6 at the end of the first quarter, but Hurley scored thre...
RHINELANDER, Wis. — The Ironwood Red Devils girls’ tennis team kicked off their competitive season Friday travelling to Rhinelander, Wisconsin for a quadrangular invitational against Wisconsin schools: Rhinelander, Merrill and Ashland. Regular ad scoring with 10-pt super-tiebreakers in lieu of a 3rd set was the play format for the day. Ashland 6, Ironwood 1 After a short rain delay waiting for courts to dry, Ironwood was first on court facing off against the Ashland Oredockers, with play beginning at 9:30am. Ashland quickly won matches at No....
SHELL LAKE, Wis. — Hurley gave Shell Lake a rude welcome to the 2014 football season, shelling the Lakers 52-0 Friday night. Three Midgets – Nick Fink, Devin Czerneski and Adam Hendricks - had two touchdowns apiece as Hurley piled up 469 yards on the ground. The deep Midgets didn’t have much trouble with Shell Lake’s no-huddle offense, even on a humid night. “They’re running no-huddle spread all over the place and we had that depth that we could roll through our defensive line to keep some p...
The Routheaux family will continue its tradition of producing head basketball coaches. Deke Routheaux was the head coach at Gogebic Community College for many years and his son, Tim, was hired Monday night by the Ironwood Board of Education as the new varsity girls’ basketball coach after Noel Aho stepped aside after four years. Routheaux has been the middle school girls’ basketball coach for two years and he feels very good about the players coming into the junior varsity and varsity programs. “I’m excited to be coaching these girls,” Routheau...
IRONWOOD – One of the nice things about events such as the 2014 Induction Ceremony of the Ironwood Area Sports Hall of Fame is that everyone walks out into a warm summer evening feeling good about the night's festivities. It happened again on Saturday night at the Gogebic Community College Lindquist Center Courtside Dining Room with four new individual inductees and the undefeated 1963 Ironwood Red Devil football team entering the Hall of Fame. They included Percy Smith (Class of 1961), b...
HURLEY - No man or woman has won as many Paavo Nurmi Marathons after Ben Schneider, 30, of Minneapolis picked up his ninth straight win at Saturday morning's 46th annual race. He celebrated by running his fastest Paavo - 2:33:01. His wife, Candice, 29, also won again, making for the fourth straight Schneider sweep, which happens to be the number on her race bib. Candice battled the sunny and hot morning to finish in 3:15:21, 3 minutes, 53 seconds faster than second-place Denise Hefferin of Saint...
HURLEY - Ben Schneider is coming off a top-50 overall finish at April's Boston Marathon. His wife, Candice, is nearly fully healthy after winning last year's Paavo Nurmi Marathon with a nagging injury and then picking up her second best marathon time at Boston despite still battling the injury. Now they're hoping to keep their Paavo streaks going at Saturday's 46th annual marathon. Ben seeks his ninth straight men's title and Candice her fourth consecutive women's crown. Ben is the all-time...
HANCOCK - Three former professional athletes who hail from the Upper Peninsula are among 10 new inductees into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame. Paul Feldhausen of Iron Mountain spent three years in the National Football League, the late Hugh (Muzz) Murray of Sault Ste. Marie played in two National Hockey League Stanley Cup finals and Becky Iverson of Gladstone had a 14-year career on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour. A pair of former teammates on the University of...
HURLEY - One of Hurley's best running backs. An all-around female athlete. The school's first WIAA scholar athlete. Hurley's all-time wins leader in boys basketball. Tony Loden, Becky Brackett, Joe Sargent and Gary Giancola joined the 2001 state runner-up softball team in the Hurley High School Athletic Hall of Fame Saturday. Becky Brackett (Class of 1994) Competitiveness is what made Brackett such a great athlete, softball coach Jim Kivisto said. "What I was most amazed about was size didn't...
HURLEY - Hurley football got a bit of revenge on Shiocton Friday. Well, on the golf course anyway. Colin DiGiorgio and Ross Corullo of Hurley beat father-and-son Jim and Jason Hill in a one-hole playoff at Eagle Bluff for their first Hurley Quarterback Club Golf Touranment title. While Jim is an Iron Belt native, Jason is a 2000 graduate of Shiocton, whose football team defeated Hurley in the state semifinal last season on its way to a state title. Jason follows both teams. "I was with coach...
