Sports

Over a dozen teams and over 100 racers competed at the Superior Central Invite on Saturday, September 9. The 5K race was held in Eben Junction at the Superior Central Schools fitness trails and around the softball and baseball facilities on the east side of E-T Road. It was the Gladstone Braves that took both the boys and girls varsity meets, with the boys routing second-place Gwinn 34-114, while the girls kept just ahead of Stephenson in a 60-75 race to victory.

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It was another victory for one of Michigan’s top mountain cyclists on Saturday, as Jorden Wakeley won the Mountain Goat Mash presented by By George Brewing at Valley Spur on Saturday, Sept. 9. It was Wakeley’s third straight Mountain Goat Mash title.

The Munising Baptist Bobcats clashed with the Grand Marais Polar Bears in an exhilarating match on Thursday, Sept. 7 that ended with a 1-0 victory for the Bobcats. It was the first prep soccer game of the year in Alger County.

It was all about the approach for Curtis Pepin. Crediting his “upshots” — the disc golf term for the second shot off the tee that will set up a putt — Pepin threw for a three-under 55 to win the inaugural Superior Pines Disc Golf Tournament in Grand Marais on Saturday, Sept.

Revenge. Redemption.

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Munising alumna Hattie Cota led the Bay College Norse at its first cross country event of the season at the St. Norbert College’s Tom Barry Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 2. Cota finished 96 of 130 runners, but was the first Norse across the line in the women’s race with a time of 23:51.54.