PETOSKEY — The Marquette Senior High School girls basketball team earned a trip to tonight’s MHSAA Division 1 district tournament championship game with a 43-30 win at Petoskey on Wednesday evening.

Playing below the Mackinac Bridge, the Sentinels were able to get their game in as bad winter weather had not hit Petoskey the way it did over much of the Upper Peninsula on Wednesday and forced postponement of the vast majority of girls tournament games.

MSHS (11-13) headed south from Petoskey as it plays at Traverse City Central (15-6) at 6 p.m. today. The Sentinels are on a four-game winning streak and also exacted an amount of revenge as Marquette lost 53-43 to Petoskey in February 2023.

It was a back-and-forth night between Marquette and Petoskey (12-10), with the Northmen actually ahead 9-6 after one quarter.

Momentum swung a bit to the Sentinels in the second quarter, as sophomore guard Addison Kramer found her shot from outside, hitting back-to-back 3-pointers. It became a feared theme of the night for Petoskey first-year head coach Brooke Carlson, as Kramer later added three more and finished with a game-high 17 points.

Marquette led 19-15 game at halftime, then after Petoskey took the lead in the third, it was again Kramer stealing the momentum with another of those 3-pointers.

“We watched and knew and talked about how we can’t lose her, but the times we lost her and didn’t know where she was at, they found her and she buried pretty much every single one,” Carlson said.

For Petoskey, Sadie Corey finished with 13 points to lead, then Braylin Adair and Haidyn Wegmann each had five.

Story contents based on a Petoskey News-Review story by sports editor Drew Kochanny.