Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Ewen-Trout Creek senior Dillon Gordon and Ironwood junior Adam Mackey were named to Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan all-state teams. Mackey made the Class C team after leading the Red Devils to an 18-4 season. Gordon is on the Class D team, after averaging 28.5 points per game for the 17-5 Panthers. Gordon also made the Class D all-state Second Team in the Detroit News. Mackey was an honorable mention in Class C in the News. Crystal Falls Forest Park junior Lexi Gussert made the all-class elite teams from BCAM, the Detroit News an...
MARQUETTE — Dillon Gordon had a Dream career, now he’s on the Dream Team. Gordon, a Ewen-Trout Creek senior, was named to the all-class All-U.P. Dream Team. Voting was conducted at the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association ‘s 63rd annual boys basketball meeting Wednesday on the campus of Northern Michigan University. Mid-Peninsula’s 20-20 player Brett Branstrom was named Class D Player of the Year, beating Gordon on a 14-9 vote. Both players certainly had a case. —Branst...
MARQUETTE — Three for three. Ironwood junior Adam Mackey made the All-U.P. team for the third year in a row. It is his second consecutive season on the Class ABC First Team. He was Second Team as a freshman. Mackey finished in sixth place in voting for the five-person Dream Team this year. Voting was held at Wednesday’s 63rd annual boys basketball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. Mackey averaged 17.8 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. He led the Devils in eight statistical categories: points sco...
MARQUETTE — Ewen-Trout Creek’s Zoey McGeshick and Ontonagon’s Chelsea Truscott were named to the All-U.P. Class D Second Team. While those two players are seniors, all five members of the all-class All-U.P. Dream Team are not — four are juniors and one is a sophomore. The All-U.P. team was determined during Wednesday’s 38th annual girls basketball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on the campus of Northern Michigan University. The boys team was also determined Wednesday and will be released in Saturday...
MINNEAPOLIS — The Hurley Midgets baseball team had to travel more than 250 miles — and still go inside — to start its baseball season. They were only scrimmages, against Chequamegon and Phillips, but at least there was baseball at the Metrodome Thursday in Minneapolis. “Despite four feet of snow on the ground, we still managed to get our first baseball games in, so that’s nice,” Hurley manager Aaron Bender said. The Midgets played Phillips first and the teams were tied at 0-0 through thr...
SUPERIOR, Wis. — The outdoor track-and-field season may be a long ways off with towering snowbanks everywhere, but Ironwood started the season indoors Friday at the Simpson Invitational at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The Red Devil girls were seventh and the boys eighth. Ashland won the boys event, Superior the girls. Jessica Gering finished second in the 1,600-meter run to lead the Ironwood girls. She led nearly the entire race until a last-lap surge by Superior’s Leah Holms. Cole Ste...
DANVILLE, Ill. — Unseeded Central Community College upset top-seed Mott Community College 67-61 Tuesday in the first round of the NJCAA Division II men’s national basketball tournament. Central (20-13) of Columbus, Neb., advanced to the national tournament with an 81-75 victory over Gogebic Community College on March 10. Mott (29-4) led 29-27 at halftime and the game was tied at 54-54 with more than six minutes left. Just like Central’s game against GCC, the lead changed hands multiple times. It was tied at 61-61 with two minutes left. Centr...
ASHLAND, Wis. — Hurley senior Sam Ofstad and Drummond senior Bethany Best shared the Indianhead Conference Player of the Year honors in girls basketball. Ofstad was named the East Division Player of the Year and Best the top player in the West Division. Coaches then determined an overall player of the year in the conference and Ofstad and Best share that award. Ofstad played four years for the Midgettes and led this year’s East Division champions to a 20-4 record as one of just two seniors. Making the East Division First Team were: Ofstad, Hur...
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...
EWEN — It’s official. Ewen-Trout Creek senior Dillon Gordon is going to play basketball at Michigan Tech. Gordon committed Tuesday in a meeting at Houghton. “I’m extremely excited,” Gordon said. “I can’t wait to see what the next level brings. They’ve been recruiting me throughout the whole year and it seemed like a great place to go. Great education. I think it’s a great option for me.” Gordon finished his high school career at 1,797 points, the second most in E-TC history. “I’m just very, ver...
IRONWOOD — No matter how good the season, the ending still stings. The Gogebic Community College Samsons came up six points short of the national tournament, losing 81-75 to Central Community College of Columbus, Neb., on Sunday. The Samsons completed a special season at 23-5, winning two thrilling Region 13 games in front of huge crowds in Ironwood while capturing its first Region title since 2011. The biggest crowd of all arrived Sunday to see a back-and-forth nailbiting NJCAA Division II District 7 championship game won by Central (...
