By Eddie O’Neill eoneill@mininggazette.com LAKE LINDEN- The Lake Linden- Hubbell girls’ basketball squad proved to be the better team on Thursday as they outlasted the Jeffers Jets by a score of 76-39. The Lakes (4-0) jumped out to an 11-4 lead and never looked back. They led 24-11 ...

HOUGHTON — On a night where she scored 19 points on the road at St. Cloud State, Michigan Tech Huskies senior guard Isabella Lenz became the latest women’s basketball player in school history to reach 1,000 career points. She became the 31st Huskies player to reach the ...

HOUGHTON — For the second game in a row, the Houghton Gremlins boys basketball team had an easy game. On Monday, they defeated Lake Linden-Hubbell, 91-20, and on Wednesday, they put the Hancock Bulldogs down, 77-19. Over the course of those two games, they outscored their opponents ...

CALUMET — On Tuesday night, at Calumet High School, the Copper Kings boys (1-1) welcomed the Dollar Bay-Tamarack City Blue Bolts (5-0) to the hardwood. After a slow start, the Bolts battled back to win 58-47, propelled by an outstanding 24-point performance from Liam Tourtillott. In the ...

HOUGHTON — Going into the opening game of the season, Michigan Tech Huskies junior guard Marcus Tomashek needed just a handful of points to reach the 1,000-point mark for his collegiate career. The Huskies were opening the season in Wisconsin Dells against Missouri-St. Louis, and Tomashek ...

LAKE LINDEN — Monday night’s boys’ basketball matchup between the Houghton Gremlins and the Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes was a mismatch from the start. It was very much a varsity Houghton squad versus a junior varsity Lake Linden team – not by design, but rather by necessity. The Lakes ...