IRON RIVER—Winter bared its fangs at Iron County again last week, costing West Iron’s boys basketball team its only game on the schedule.

Lee Graff fearlessly drives the lane between West Iron defenders Brock Hopkins (left) and Ryan Rogers in action from Jan. 17. Graff’s 20 points led Forest Park in their win at Carney on Jan. 25.
CRYSTAL FALLS—Think that subzero cold spell last week didn’t do anybody any good? It sure helped Forest Park’s boys basketball team, who came home from Carney-Nadeau Jan. 25 with an impressive 70-67 win.

CRYSTAL FALLS—Lexi Gussert picked the perfect night to go for a school record.
When the Forest Park junior struck for 50 points on Jan. 24, it broke the Forest Park single game scoring record of 46 set by Kim Hautala during the early 1990s. It also tops the boys record.

Hancock frustrated West Iron through most of their Jan. 24 game, but not here—Adam Newby gets free in the lane for a rebound hoop.
IRON RIVER—Mother Nature decreed back-to-back home games for West Iron’s boys last week, and they couldn’t have been more different.

IRON RIVER—When West Iron’s Jan. 21 game with Norway was shifted to Jan. 25 by last week’s subzero spell, it meant the Wykon girls would play four games in only six days.

West Iron’s Brock Hopkins takes it to net, bowling over Forest Park’s Lee Graff in the process Jan. 17. Trailing the action are FP’s Raymond Tomasik (25), Austin Snell (3), Derek Aberly (35) and West Iron’s Austin Waara.
IRON RIVER—That Thursday night fiasco at Forest Park didn’t do West Iron’s basketball team any good, but 24 hours later they rallied from behind in the fourth quarter, earning a 63-58 win at L’Anse Jan. 18.

The Trojans’ Derek Aberly goes up for a shot during Forest Park’s Jan. 14 game with Bark River-Harris, as the Broncos’ Kyle Kleiman defends.
CRYSTAL FALLS—Forest Park’s boys basketball team made a whole bunch of demons disappear last week.

CRYSTAL FALLS—With winter weather finally settling in and a lot more ice around, Forest Park’s girls basketball team nearly took a nasty spill at North Central Jan. 18.
The Lady Trojans found themselves down by 11 points midway through the first quarter against the Jets. They rallied to win 46-44 and stay undefeated, but it was easily their closest game of the year—and their lowest point total.

IRON RIVER—West Iron’s girls team split a pair of games last week, defeating Ewen-Trout Creek at home 56-45 on Jan. 14 before losing to West Pac Conference power Houghton 64-45 on Jan. 18.
West Iron now has a 4-6 record overall and is 1-3 in West Pac play.

Megan Miatech fires a close-in shot during West Iron’s Jan. 8 game against North Dickinson. Miatech scored 23 points and had 14 rebounds against Hancock two nights later.
IRON RIVER—After a gauntlet of games against the likes of Houghton, Kingsford and Forest Park, West Iron girls Coach Mike Dallavalle said, “These girls needed a couple wins this week,”