LANSING — In each meet that the Alpena Community College cross country team has run, the Lumberjacks have improved their times. On Friday, at the Lansing CC Invitational, the team not only improved, but each runner ran either a season or career best. “Going into to the meet, I ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The Alpena boys soccer team finished regular season play on a positive note, defeating rival Traverse City Central 2-1 on Monday. The Wildcats wasted little time taking an early lead when Ivo Arvidsson-Ullberg found the back of the net two minutes into the game on an assist ...

HILLMAN—The Hillman football team ran over, under and through Bellaire’s defense on the way to a dominant 60-14 on Saturday at Hillman High School. Sean Henigan ran for 183 yards and four touchdowns on 10 carries and a banged-up Tigers squad ran for 542 rushing yards in the win, ...

ROGERS CITY—With his Rogers City football team trailing by two with less than 10 minutes to play, Jesse Fenstermaker’s message to his team was simple. Don’t give up. The Hurons heeded their coach’s advice, kept playing and went the clock hit zeroes, they had a hard-fought win to show ...

By RYAN SPITZA Marquette Journal MARQUETTE — Heartbreak is something all teams, players and fans will deal with every now and again. The Marquette Senior High School football team experienced heartbreak on Friday, unable to complete a late rally as the Redmen fell to Alpena 28-25 on ...

MIO — Coming into Friday’s game, the Posen football team had turned its season around and won its past three games, but the Vikings made a handful of mistakes that proved costly as Posen (3-3) fell to Mio (5-1) by a final score of 46-26. Tyler Hincka had another solid day on the ground as ...

As if Alpena High School wasn’t filled with enough emotion on Thursday night as the Wildcat volleyball team played host to their annual Pink Game, welcoming BNC foe Traverse City Central and the two rivals provided even more emotion and excited throughout the night, but in the end Alpena was ...

After winning two consecutive games, the Alpena High football team took a few steps backward in last weeks 37-6 loss at Traverse City West. The Wildcats made costly mistakes early, fell behind and could never dig themselves out of the hole they that they fell in. This week Alpena will once ...

TRAVERSE CITY ­— The Alpena boys soccer team was on the receiving end of a 5-1 loss against the No. 4 ranked team in Division 1, Traverse City West on Thursday. The Titans held a 3-0 lead at the half before Alpena got on the board with its lone goal of the night from Ivo ...

If something isn’t broke, don’t fix it, is a famous saying. This has been the cry of some teams around the area, where others are looking for that quick fix at this late juncture of the season. With the influx of 8-man football, teams like Mio must be wondering, why they did not switch ...

LINCOLN — For the Alcona soccer team, playing to a tie has never felt sweeter. On Wednesday, the Tigers played host to North Star League rival Oscoda in a game that was going to decide the teams’ NSL fate. With an Alcona win or tie, the Tigers would claim the outright title and a loss, ...

ONAWAY — The Onaway volleyball team continues to be trending in the right direction at the right time. After a sluggish start to the season, the Cardinals have picked up their play and on Tuesday, Onaway improved its Ski Valley Conference record to a perfect 5-0 on the season after ...

ROGERS CITY—Some early struggles paved the way for refocused efforts and a sweep for the Rogers City volleyball team. The Hurons trailed 18-6 in the third set against Posen on Tuesday, but rallied back behind the strong serving of Jeffra Dittmar to top the Vikings 28-26. Rogers City won ...

Kate Skiba gave the Alpena High volleyball team the boost it needed on Monday. The junior outside hitter showed off her serving skills, dishing up 10 aces in the first two sets to help the Wildcats sweep Tawas at Alpena High School. Alpena defeated the Braves 25-8, 25-16 and 25-20 during an ...

LINCOLN—The Alcona soccer team had trouble finding the back of the net during a 3-1 loss to Roscommon on Monday at home. Joel Steiner scored a goal in the second half for the Tigers (8-5) with an assist from Brett Nelson, but that was the only goal Alcona had. “It was a good game. We ...

HILLMAN—On the basketball court and on the football field, there was little that Rick Hamilton couldn’t do. Hamilton’s abilities as a dual-sport star earned him a slew of accolades during his time as a Hillman High School athlete and on Saturday, Hamilton took his place among the ...

The Alpena Community College cross country team had three goals going into Friday’s Firebird Invitational: win the meet, use the race as a hard tempo run and have all eight runners earn at T-shirt which is given out to the top 15 runners. The Lumberjacks completed all three as Alpena’s ...

TRAVERSE CITY—The Alpena football team had trouble getting out of its own way on Saturday. The Wildcats committed four turnovers and couldn’t keep up with Traverse City West during a 37-6 loss at Thirlby Field. Alpena’s only score came with 12 seconds left when Ryan Voltz found Charlie ...

HILLMAN — After Hillman made the switch to eight-player a season ago, the Tigers and Mio Thunderbolts did not play each other for the first time in 30 years in 2018. On Friday, the two North Star League foes renewed their rivalry. The first meeting went to the Thunderbolts as Mio (4-1) came ...

LINCOLN—After a rough few weeks, the Alcona football needed some kind of spark. Mason Clark and the Tigers’ defense gave Alcona and its fans quite the spark on homecoming night Friday. Clark rushed for three scores and Alcona’s defense played well all night as the Tigers ended a ...