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Huskies hockey sweeps Wildcats again

By DAVER KARNOSKY dkarnosky@mininggazette.com HOUGHTON — The Michigan Tech Huskies hockey team earned a second series sweep of the Northern Michigan Wildcats with a 3-2 win on Friday night at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena in Houghton, and 4-0 win Saturday at the Berry Events Center in ...

Huskies prove they are more than ‘NobodyU’

For the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix, Wednesday’s noon matchup with the Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball team was going to be a problem no matter how it went. The Huskies entered the game riding a five-game winning streak that included a win over then-No. 3 Minnesota State-Moorhead ...

Thoughts from the penalty box

The Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball team is on a four-game winning streak that started with a victory over then-No. 3 Minnesota State-Moorhead at the St. Louis County Basketball Classic. Since then, the Huskies knocked off St. Cloud State, Wisconsin-Parkside, and Purdue Northwest. ...

Huskies football gave us a great season

Going into Saturday’s contest at Saginaw Valley State, Michigan Tech Huskies football coach Dan Mettlach’s team had already had a good season, going 6-4 with a 3-3 record in GLIAC play. They had beaten Northern Michigan, which is a priority every year, Wayne State, and Roosevelt. They gave ...

Huskies football continues to make strides under Mettlach

When Michigan Tech announced that Dan Mettlach was going to be the next head coach of the football program, I, for one, was very excited, not just because I know Mettlach on a personal level, but also because I have always felt like he had this vibe, for lack of a better word, that he would ...

Leading by example

Michigan Tech Huskies hockey coach Joe Shawhan has really liked the play of a line he and his staff has put together of freshman center Tom Leppa, junior winger Trevor Kukkonen, and sophomore winger Lauri Raiman. Raiman had struggled to keep a regular spot in the lineup last season, ...