ELY- In a busy week of volleyball action, the Ely girls ran their season-opening win streak to eight with five match wins before suffering their first loss of the season on Monday at Chisholm. The …

ELY- The Ely boys raced to the team title while the girls placed third in a strong showing at the Paul Bauer Cross Country Invitational in Grand Rapids on Tuesday. The boys placed all five of their …

ELY- The Ely High School football stadium could rightly be renamed the Ely Heartbreak Hotel after the Wolves came up short in a rain-delayed thriller against International Falls on Friday, 21-8. The …

FIELD TWP- The North Woods volleyball team logged plenty of road miles during a busy six-day stretch, playing seven matches at four locations and coming away with four wins and three losses. The …

BABBITT- A young Northeast Range volleyball squad is showing signs of growth, picking up their first win of the season on Saturday at the Greenway tournament in Coleraine. The Nighthawks opened the …

FIELD TWP- Playing without several players from their opening 28-0 loss to McGregor, the North Woods game at home against Bigfork last Thursday was an adventure in lackluster improvisation, as the …

FIELD TWP- The North Woods volleyball team turned a sluggish start into a five-set battle in Monday’s home opener, but Mt. Iron-Buhl held off the Grizzlies in the deciding set to claim a 3-2 win. …

ELY- The Ely volleyball team opened the season with back-to-back sweeps this week, overpowering Deer River at home on Monday before passing a tougher road test at Greenway on Tuesday. The …

ELY- Tom Coombe was five years old when he walked about a block from his grandmother’s house to the Ely baseball field, found a seat in the bleachers, and watched the city host a state tournament …

REGIONAL—Local youth mountain bikers from Team BOREALIS kicked off the fall race season on Aug. 29 and 30 in Shakopee as nine middle- and high-schoolers from Ely raced the course at Xcel Energy …

ELY — On a cool, windy Friday morning, a restless group of young golfers gathered outside the clubhouse at the Ely Golf Club for the final day of the club’s annual youth golf camp. Low clouds …

BECKER — North Woods golfer Gage Aune made a significant jump up the leaderboard in his second appearance at the Class A state golf tournament, improving both his score and placing from a year ago. …

REGIONAL — Ely sophomore Violet Udovich delivered one of the most outstanding individual performances at the Minnesota Class A state track and field meet at St. Michael-Albertville High School last …

ELY — Contractors mobilized at Ely school facilities this week, launching construction on a $5.25 million athletic improvement project nearly two years in the making. Superintendent Anne Oelke told …

REGIONAL — Ely’s baseball season came to an end Tuesday in Hibbing, as the Timberwolves dropped a pair of games in the Section 7A Final Four to finish the 2026 campaign with a 15-10 record and a …

REGIONAL — The Ely girls track and field team will be well represented at the Class A state meet after standout performances at the Section 7A championships held May 27 at Griggs Field on the …

REGIONAL — North Woods golfers Gage Aune and Laurin Glass each punched their tickets to the Class A state golf tournament last week, leading the Grizzlies at the Section 7A tournament held Tuesday …

AURORA — The Ely girls track and field team claimed the Section 7A North Subsectional Championship last Thursday at Mesabi East, piling up 132 points to finish 30.5 points ahead of runner-up …

ELY — The Ely Timberwolves closed the door on the regular season on a strong note last week, capturing the Iron Range Conference championship and locking down the No. 2 seed in the Section 7A …

ELY — The Ely Timberwolves opened the Section 7A baseball playoffs in emphatic fashion on Tuesday, overwhelming the Cook County Vikings 23-1 in a game shortened by the mercy rule. As the …

TWO HARBORS — NER/Ely senior Cylvia DeBeltz captured medalist honors at last Thursday’s East Range Conference Championship at Lakeview National Golf Course, finishing three strokes ahead of the …

TWO HARBORS — Ely finally flipped the script against Mt. Iron-Buhl last Thursday and in the process kept its season alive in the Section 7A softball tournament. After dropping two close regular …

BARNUM — North Woods’ softball season came to an end last Thursday, but not before the Grizzlies gave a higher-seeded South Ridge squad far more of a battle than the teams’ earlier meeting …

ELY- The Ely Timberwolves overcame an early two-run deficit and erupted for six runs in the fifth inning last Saturday to defeat the North Woods Grizzlies 8-3 in a rivalry softball matchup in Ely. …

SILVER BAY — Ely opened Section 7A tournament play Tuesday with an emphatic 14-4 five-inning win over Floodwood before running into a much tougher challenge later in the day, falling 11-1 in five …