MARQUETTE — Unlike some recent years, the path to this season’s top individual honors in Upper Peninsula high school boys basketball went through the largest schools. For example, over the past three years, the overall U.P. Player of the Year — otherwise known as Mr. U.P. Basketball — ...
MARQUETTE — Three boys players from opposite ends of The Mining Journal’s daily coverage area won Division 4 Second Team honors when All-Upper Peninsula honors were determined by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association at Northern Michigan University last Monday. One of them ...
MARQUETTE — Two of the top four high school boys basketball teams in the Upper Peninsula came from Marquette County, even while neither of their coaches could earn a Coach of the Year honor. It wasn’t for lack of trying, however, at the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association ...
MARQUETTE — A total of 15 area boys players received Special Mention and Honorable Mention in All-Upper Peninsula voting conducted by the U.P. Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association at its annual basketball meeting held at Northern Michigan University in Marquette on Monday. Players ...
Player, School Ht. Yr. -------------------------------------- Dream Team Gavin Grondin, Kingsford 6-0 Sr. Ethan Marta, Westwood 6-3 Jr. Oskar Kangas, Iron Mountain 6-6 Sr. Jacob MacPhee, Marquette 6-6 Sr. Vic Giuliani, Forest ...
MARQUETTE — With two of their brethren taking up spots on the All-Upper Peninsula Dream Team, the ranks had to start thinning out for area boys basketball players to earn spots on the Divisions 1-3 First and Second teams. But not so fast. Marquette and Alger counties showed how deep their ...