ONAWAY—The Onaway softball team started slow, but finished strong on Tuesday, splitting a doubleheader with Cheboygan at home. Onaway lost the first game 11-1 and won the second game 15-5 (five innings). In the first game, Callie Selke took the loss for Onaway (5-1, 4-0 Ski Valley), ...
UNIVERSITY CENTER—The early-game hitting woes that plagued the Alpena Community College softball team last weekend, reared their head again on Tuesday as the Lumberjacks lost to Delta in a pair of makeup games. Alpena lost 8-0 and 14-6. In the opener, Kendra Cole took the loss for ACC ...
POSEN —The Posen baseball team’s inability to make the routine plays proved costly on Monday as the Vikings fell twice in a doubleheader against Oscoda, losing by scores of 7-4 and 16-1. “Oscoda made the defensive plays and we didn’t, it was that simple,” Posen coach Pat Kowalski ...
POSEN—All winter long, the Oscoda softball team put a lot of time into making contact at the plate. Practice paid off for the Owls in a big way on Monday as they took a doubleheader from Posen, winning 11-0 and 24-4 (three innings). Spurred on three home runs, the Owls took the fight to ...
TRAVERSE CITY—The Alpena girls tennis team competed in the Up North Challenge in Traverse City on Monday and came away with two wins. Kaitlyn Schultz at two singles defeated her Traverse City Central opponent and Breann Kieliszewski and Taylor Belanger at second doubles defeated their ...
EAST LANSING — The Rogers City softball team started its season off with a bang as they traveled to East Lansing for a tournament and came away victorious, going a perfect 3-0 to capture the tournament championship in their first games of the year. “It was a good tournament. It was nice ...
FLINT — After dropping two games on Friday on the road against Mott Community College, the Lumberjacks of Alpena Community College were back in action on Saturday, but again fell short in two games, including a heartbreaking finish to the weekend as they lost by scores of 8-0 and 4-3. The ...
DAVISON—The Alpena High boys and girls track teams opened the 2017 at the Shake off the Rust Invitational on Thursday in Davison, taking third and 14th place respectively. The Alpena boys team finished with 222 points after 18 top-10 finishes. Grand Blanc won the men’s meet with 313 1/2 ...
FLINT—The Alpena Community College softball team played well enough to win on Friday, but had trouble bringing runners home in a doubleheader loss to Mott, 5-1 and 3-0. "We were competing and those are steps forward," ACC coach Shelly Hance said. "We're going to go back to working on the ...
Starting off strong is what the Alpena softball program has been accustomed to and the Wildcats kept that trend going to open the 2017 season as they swept Boyne City on Thursday, 10-0 and 11-7. “I thought for the first day out we did a lot of nice things. There were also some things that ...
It wasn’t perfect, but the Alpena baseball team will take it. On a day that saw some Alpena shake off some early season rust, all that mattered for the Wildcats Thursday was that they started the 2017 season off on a winning note against Rogers City. Alpena topped the Hurons 7-6 in eight ...
WEST BRANCH— The Alpena soccer team picked up another shut out victory, this time defeating Ogemaw Heights on Thursday by a score of 2-0. The Wildcats got a goal in each half as the first came off the leg of Mollie Girard with an assist from Anna Young. The second half goal came from ...
Looking at this year’s roster, there’s no doubt the Alpena High girls track team has talent. The challenge for coach Joy Bullis is figuring out how best to distribute that talent to make the Wildcats competitive. “I feel like we have a solid one or two in every event,” Bullis said. ...
After winning the Big North Conference title six years in a row, the Alpena softball team will look to make it seven straight in 2017 as the expectations remain high for a program that has been so good for so long. “Our goals are the same every year. We want to win the BNC and make a run to ...
When he took over the Alpena High girls soccer program in 2012, Tim Storch was optimistic that if his team worked hard, eventually good results would follow. “They know what needs to be done and if they keep doing hard, we’re going to see some benefits from that,” Storch said in ...
If all goes well, 2017 could be a banner season for the Alpena boys golf team. With one of its largest teams in years, a talented group of veterans and a desire to improve, the Wildcats have come a long way under coach Eric Mitchell since he took over the program in 2015. “It’s the ...
When he looks at his roster for the 2017 season, Alpena baseball coach Phil Schultz has a lot of reasons to like his team. The Wildcats have a solid mix of veterans and youngsters. The 14-player roster is a competitive one. Alpena’s pitching rotation is talented and deep. Added all ...
After putting together a solid season a year ago and returning some key standouts to what looks like could be a loaded roster, the Alpena boys track team is determined to build on the success that they had a year ago. The Wildcats will return two key members that qualified to the Division 1 ...
The Alpena High School girls tennis team has steadily improved over the last few years under head coach Charlie Giordano. The Wildcats enter the season with a larger roster as more girls came out this year and the increased numbers will likely benefit Alpena as they look to continue improving ...
Jerry LeTourneau was a star on the gridiron during the early 1950’s. LeTourneau was the total package during his time at Alpena Catholic Central, making would be tacklers miss with his power running and shifty fleet-footed ability on his way to a stellar athletic career for the ...