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Everest Collegiate trips Lakes for district crown

Everest Collegiate trips Lakes for district crown

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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter:@LocalSportsFans   CLARKSTON — Sometimes a metropolitan area can takes years, even decades, to build up. Championship teams often take many years as well. At Clarkston Everest Collegiate, the boys basketball program has flourished in just three short seasons. The Mountaineers built captured their first-ever CHSL Intersectional Division title […]

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Imlay City clamps down on Notre Dame Prep for district title

Imlay City clamps down on Notre Dame Prep for district title

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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans IMLAY CITY — There was a mandated overtime session Friday in Imlay City and the host Spartans were rewarded with a district trophy for their extra work. Imlay City outscored Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, 18-2, in the overtime period to lift it to a 57-41 victory the […]

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BOYS SWIMMING: OAA White Division Results

BOYS SWIMMING: OAA White Division Results

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Boys Swimming   OAA WHITE DIVISION LEAGUE MEET (Feb. 22-24 at West Bloomfield) TEAM SCORES — 1. Farmington-Harrison Unified, 465; 2. Rochester Adams, 453; 3. West Bloomfield, 449.5; 4. Bloomfield Hills Andover, 426; 5. Rochester Stoney Creek, 351; 6. Rochester, 349.5; 7. Berkley, 209. DUAL MEET STANDINGS — 1. Farmington-Harrison Unified (6-0); 2. Rochester Adams […]

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BOYS SWIMMING: OAA Red Division Results

BOYS SWIMMING: OAA Red Division Results

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Boys Swimming   OAA RED DIVISION LEAGUE MEET (Feb. 23-25 at Lake Orion) TEAM SCORES — 1. Birmingham Seaholm, 477.5; 2. Birmingham Groves, 365; 3. Lake Orion, 285; 4. Troy, 271; 5. North Farmington, 233.5; 6. Clarkston, 216; 7. Bloomfield Hills Lahser, 189. DUAL STANDINGS — 1. Birmingham Seaholm (6-0); 2. Birmingham Groves (5-1); 3. […]

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Troy knocked out via Waterford Mott’s upset punch

Troy knocked out via Waterford Mott’s upset punch

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BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net   TROY — Troy’s boys basketball team was about to reach the point that good teams often hit where they know they can’t lose. But upstart Waterford Mott, the most unlikely dealer of the knockout punches, threw the Colts’ season into a tough combination of sorrow and frustration. The […]

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Fenton snaps Clarkston’s district streak at 19 straight titles, 47 consecutive district wins

Fenton snaps Clarkston’s district streak at 19 straight titles, 47 consecutive district wins

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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans   SWARTZ CREEK — In 1993, Clarkston lost in a boys basketball Class A district semifinal to Romeo, 67-52. At the time, the result didn’t seem to add up to much. The Wolves went on to post one of the longest streaks in the state of Michigan […]

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Breaking the hex: Lake Orion stuns Rochester for first district title in 28 years

Breaking the hex: Lake Orion stuns Rochester for first district title in 28 years

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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans   ROCHESTER HILLS — A long drought had to come to an end Friday night at Rochester Adams. Both Rochester and Lake Orion had not won a district since the mid-1980s, with Rochester’s last district coming in 1988 and Lake Orion’s 1984. Despite losing in the district […]

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