Area Sports

One of Newberry High School’s main athletic facilities will get a facelift when the J.L. DeCook Gymnasium receives a newly remodeled floor and playing surface later this summer.

The season opener is weeks away, but football play returns to Newberry when the Indians welcome several schools for partial squad scrimmages.

This is much larger than athletics, because we are driving students away with no plan to keep them here or bring back those that have jumped off the sinking ship.

The outcome of the Upper Peninsula Division 3 boys’ track and field Finals boiled down to the last race as Newberry held off St. Ignace 96-92 for its first championship in eight years when it was competing in D-2.

The Newberry High School Football program is hosting its annual Youth Football Camp at the football field June 3-5 after school.

The Newberry Middle School (NMS) boys golf team has been dominating, going undefeated for nearly two full seasons.

The Newberry Football Quarterback Club, an organization that will support to local football athletes and teams, hoping to create new legacies on the gridiron.

Newberry Motors Owner and President Kevin Vanatta recently announced that employees of the dealership raised $20,000 to donate to the Tahquamenon Area Schools Athletic Department for needed upgrades at the Newberry track and football facility.

Senior Kennedy Depew had a hand in three first-place finishes, but it wasn’t enough for the Newberry boys to keep pace with Pickford in the Web Morrison Invitational track and field meet in Pickford on Saturday.

The Newberry girls and boys varsity track teams took center stage at the first meet of the season last Friday in Cadillac.