Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Ewen-Trout Creek's Emma Besonen fights for position during Friday night's game in Negaunee.
By JASON JUNO
NEGAUNEE - As far as girls basketball goes in the Upper Peninsula, it doesn't get much better than Negaunee. The Miners are a mainstay in the big school top five and they made it to the state semifinal last season - in Division 2, the second biggest of the four groupings in Michigan.
Ewen-Trout Creek, with 58 students in their high school compared to Negaunee's 433, wasn't deterred by any of that. The Panthers went into Lakeview Gym Friday night and made a game of it until the Miners wore them down in the second half for a 47-30 victory.
It was at Negaun...
