MORENCI — The Morenci girls varsity basketball team will enter 2026 postseason play as one of the top-ranked teams in Division 4 according to the Michigan Power Rating rankings that are used to seed District brackets.
MORENCI — The Morenci girls varsity basketball team enters the 2025-26 season in the midst of the program’s most successful run, having three-peated as league champs and won back-to-back district and regional championships.
MORENCI —The Morenci boys varsity basketball team enters the 2025-2026 season hoping to turn the corner using groundwork laid over the past two years.
“We are looking to finally get over the hump of what we have been building for multiple seasons,” head coach Garrett Benjamin said.
MORENCI — Morenci coach Ryan McDowell capped his first season at the helm of his eight-man football program without losing players to season-ending injuries or losing faith in the team.
“I wasn’t too worried about losses because we had small numbers,” said McDowell, whose team did go from 16 to 17 players during the season. “The big focus was on having nobody quit, but at the same time, still challenging them quite a bit. And to their credit, they answered the challenge.”
MORENCI — The Morenci varsity volleyball team entered the 2025 season with a new coach and a goal of changing the culture of the program.
Head coach Erin Ekins didn’t have to wait long for her squad to demonstrate they truly wanted a different season from years past.
MORENCI — First-year head cross country coach Tony Muzzi inherited a program returning only one athlete from its previous season and losing three runners to graduation. The Bulldogs finished the year with three high school athletes as well as three middle school athletes.
“And not just middle schoolers, they’re sixth graders,” Muzzi said. “So if they stick with it they will be in the program for seven years.”
MORENCI — The Morenci varsity volleyball team is looking to change the trajectory and culture of the program during the 2025 season.
First-year head coach Erin Ekins aims to bring stability and passion to the student athletes.
MORENCI – Ryan McDowell steps into the role as the Top Dog for the Morenci Bulldogs and their 8-man football program this 2025 season.
A 2003 graduate of Morenci, McDowell takes on the head spot once held by Mike McDowell. “My dad coached and taught here for over 30 years,” McDowell said of his dad, who coached two stints for the Bulldogs during the late 1990s and early 2010s.
MORENCI — Having been a cross country runner himself in high school, Tony Muzzi has an appreciation for the sport.
Now, as Morenci’s new cross country coach, he’s hoping to bring new energy to the program — and more numbers. There were four varsity runners on last fall’s roster, and three of them were seniors. But Muzzi feels there’s a lot to appreciate about cross country as a discipline.
MORENCI — The Morenci Bulldogs’ season came to an end in the Division 4 regional semifinals with a 6-0 defeat at the hands of a tough Manchester squad.