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Negaunee makes key plays late to top Calumet for district title

11/14/2020 | Football | By Bryce Derouin |

After three straight postseason losses to Calumet, three years of heartbreak, the Miners were forced to ponder “What if?” scenarios and replay certain plays through their minds for an entire offseason until next fall. Sure, the players on Friday weren’t around for the 2015 and 2016 matchups, but as a program, it can be draining coming up short to the...

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Iron Mountain defeats Bark River-Harris, wins district

11/14/2020 | Football | By Eden Laase |

I hate to do it, but I have to. I have to bring up the coronavirus again. Because when watching Iron Mountain dismantle Bark River-Harris 36-16 for the district title game, it was constantly on my mind. Not because of the masks, the social distancing, or the announcement over the loudspeaker detailing ways to curb the spread of the virus,...

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Marquette tops No. 9 Mount Pleasant, advances to district final

11/8/2020 | Football | By Staff |

Following Marquette’s district semifinal game against Mount Pleasant, coach Eric Mason’s wife asked how he was feeling. A simple question with a not so simple answer. Because with everything that’s going on in the world, his team had managed to win its first-ever home playoff game. Then, the players piled into a bus, drove five hours and won a second...

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Iron Mountain routs Gwinn in first game in 6 weeks

11/7/2020 | Football | By Bryce Derouin |

So much of Iron Mountain’s season has been filled with hypotheticals, disappointment and questions, and none of it had anything to do with what happened on the field.

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Calumet tops Menominee 29-14, moves on to district final

11/7/2020 | Football | By Jason Juno (Daily Globe) |

Calumet's Dryden Nelson outrushed Menominee by himself. He had plenty of help scoring though, as he was never the one to get in the end zone in Friday night's 29-14 Division 6 district semifinal win by the Copper Kings. For the second year in a row, the Copper Kings ended Menominee's season, this time on the Maroons' Blesch Field.

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Negaunee advances with dominant win over Westwood

11/7/2020 | Football | By Eden Laase |

Negaunee and Westwood always square off during the regular season. The two schools are in the same conference, and they are only seven miles away from each other, so there isn’t much that can stop them from playing. Of course, something did this season, I don’t even have to say it, you already know what I’m talking about: that damn...

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