Paul Barnes

It is probable that most spring-sport athletes are welcoming a return to competing outdoors after a long spring of mostly practicing inside; and this may be particularly true for baseball

As is often the case in the Bay Area, spring provided an early tease for fans of outdoor sports — before winter returned to cancel dates and delay the fun.

If there are four words that can be used to describe the Ashland Oredockers baseball program in any given season, they might be: “Tough every single year.” And so it

Bay Area baseball fans are taking note of a mounting force on the north side of the Chequamegon Bay.

Fresh off a 2-0 Heart ‘O North Conference win against a strong and emerging Washburn Castle Guards girls soccer team, the still undefeated WIAA D3 eighth ranked Ashland Oredockers appear

The Washburn Castle Guards girls soccer team has been operating in the shadow of its big sister, the WIAA D3 Ashland Oredockers, for as long as both programs have coexisted.

A brief conversation about spring weather with any Bay Area coach or athletic director is sure to produce an eye roll and possibly even coax a deep inhale-exhale, but little more.

With strategic initiatives now underway to restore Northland College’s financial footing and set a new academic direction, a lens may reasonably be pointed towards Northland LumberJills and LumberJacks athletic programs

To call Drummond Lumberjacks senior multi-sport standout Sage Williams an adventurer might be an understatement.

For one it is a homecoming, for the other a bump in responsibilities, but with the hirings of both Olaf Kirsten as the new Northland College women's