Engadine’s Paquin receives Gil Heard Courageous Athlete Award

Apr 6, 2022 | Sports

By Dan Hardenbrook It was November 2019, and the Engadine Lady Eagles had finished up a preseason practice. They were tuning up for a potentially special season in which Coach Roger French thought the team could contend and make a deep run. A few hours later, he got a...

High school hockey hands out awards

Mar 30, 2022 | Sports

By Dan Hardenbrook The High School Hockey Varsity Co-Op between Manistique, Newberry, and Munising met to celebrate their inaugural season with an end of the year banquet at the Newberry Elks Lodge last week. Head Coach John Nutkins spoke to a crowd of players,...

Indians’ Bistolfi earns SAC selection

Mar 23, 2022 | Sports

By Dan Hardenbrook Newberry’s newest basketball treasure is the latest player in the program to earn an All Conference selection in the Straits Area Conference. Claudio Bistolfi, who hails from Milan, Italy and is spending the year as a student at Newberry High...

Engadine and Newberry boys eliminated by Brimley

Mar 16, 2022 | Sports

By Dan Hardenbrook The Varsity Boys Basketball season came to a very similar end for both the Engadine Eagles and the Newberry Indians. Both squads ran into a red-hot shooting Brimley Bays team in the Division 4 District 101 tournament last week and couldn’t keep up,...

Three pots of gold at Puck of the Irish

Mar 9, 2022 | Sports

By Dan Hardenbrook Local youth had a lucky ending to the youth hockey season when three local teams swept the annual Puck of the Irish Tournament at the Bay County Civic Arena. The 10U Renze Powersports squirts, the 12U Oswald’s Bear Ranch pee wees, and the 14U State...

Indians shock Soo on homecoming

Mar 2, 2022 | Sports

By Dan Hardenbrook It was January 31st. They ran it up. They bombed threes and hammered home dunks. They laughed as they did it, knowing there was nothing the Newberry Indians could do to stop them. The final score was 82-37. That was the last time the Indians Varsity...