CADILLAC – Junior Xander Allen led from the gun to the finish Saturday at the Northern Michigan Meet of Champions, winning the boys’ 5,000-meter race in a career-best 15:26.8. The Alpena High School Wildcats’ boys finished fifth among 25 teams. Junior Logan Szumila placed fifth overall ...
ALPENA – The Alpena Wildcats football team closed its 2026 season on Senior Night with a 52-16 loss to the visiting Ogemaw Heights Falcons on Friday at Wildcat Stadium. Ogemaw Heights improved to 7-2 and positioned itself for the postseason behind a ground game that piled up nearly 500 ...
ALPENA – Cooper Black expected the nerves to hit harder. Instead, the Alpena native’s first NHL game felt mostly like excitement. The 25-year-old goaltender made his Florida Panthers debut Thursday night in a 4-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena, stopping 18 shots while ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Florida Panthers goalie Cooper Black skated onto the PPG Paints Arena ice alone during pregame warmups on Thursday night, a time-honored hockey tradition given to rookies everywhere. It took Black fewer strides to make the memorable lap than most. Call it one of the ...
ALPENA – After more than four decades away from the Fall Classic, the Milwaukee Brewers played Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night against the Tampa Bay Rays. For fans who have stayed with the team through every stretch of good, bad and ugly, the night carried the weight of a long ...
ALPENA – Alpena High School’s soccer team’s season ended in a heartbreaking 2-1 overtime loss to Petoskey on Thursday in a district semifinal, as the Wildcats’ late equalizer but failed to capitalize in overtime, as a Northmen goal in overtime proved decisive. The game was scoreless ...
