Dan Stickradt
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George Mason drops cold-shooting Oakland in season opener
FAIRFAX, Va. – Bethany Watterworth led all players with 17points, but the Oakland women’s basketball team (0-1) dropped its season-opener, 59-48, to George Mason (1-1) at the Patriot Center on Sunday. Zakiya Minifee added a double-double of 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Golden Grizzlies. “That’s how opening games go sometimes,” said Oakland head […]
Lake Orion captures first regional title since 1988
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com LAKE ORION — Coming off an emotional win over two-time defending state champion Birmingham Marian, Lake Orion volleyball coach Bob Howey did a throw a little caution into the wind Thursday night. How would his team react after such a ground-breaking victory for his program? “I didn’t think it […]
OU soccer lands three on All-Summit League squad
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – John Timm was one of three Oakland men’s soccer players to earn All-Summit League honors, as voted on by the league coaches and announced at the league banquet on Thursday night. Jon Evans and Mitch Hildebrandt both earned second team honors. A defender from Clarkston, Mich., Timm scored twice this season, […]
Girls Volleyball State Rankings — Nov. 7
Girls Volleyball (By the coaches association) Class A — 1. Farmington Hills Mercy; 2. Rockford; 3. Clarkston; 4. Birmingham Marian; 5. Plymouth Canton; 6. Richland Gull Lake; 7. Temperance Bedford; 8. East Kentwood; 9. Macomb Dakota; 10. Birmingham Seaholm. Class B — 1. Plainwell; 2. East Grand Rapids; 3. Fruitport; 4. North Branch; 5. Carleton […]
Marysville ousts Notre Dame Prep in regional finals
ARMADA — Marysville knocked Pontiac Notre Dame Prep out of the postseason Thursday for the fifth time in nine seasons. The Vikings posted a 3-0 victory over the Fighting Irish in a Class B girls volleyball regional final at Armada High School. Marysville posted wins of 25-23, 25-20 and 25-22. Notre Dame Prep (36-19-4) held […]
New Hampshire scoops up Clarkston defensive star Lightfoot
BY RAYMOND ROLAK STUDENT CORRESPONDENT CLARKSTON — Maddie Lightfoot is hoping for a legacy championship. Now that the Clarkston 5-foot-4 senior libero has aided her team to a district and regional title in the Class A girls volleyball tournament, she hopes to follow in her mom’s footsteps and have the same experience as Kristie Lightfoot […]
Marysville ousts Notre Dame Prep in regional finals
ARMADA — Marysville knocked Pontiac Notre Dame Prep out of the postseason Thursday for the fifth time in nine seasons. The Vikings posted a 3-0 victory over the Fighting Irish in a Class B girls volleyball regional final at Armada High School. Marysville posted wins of 25-23, 25-20 and 25-22. Notre Dame Prep (36-19-4) held […]
Troy volleyball season ends at the hands of Lake Orion
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net LAKE ORION — It was freezing, it was snowing in early November, and the team bus was late. Even with these omens, though, nobody could have expected the Troy volleyball team’s sore spot to be in serving —14 service errors doomed Troy in a 17-25, 21-25, 21-25 loss to […]
Clarkston delivers Chemics knockout poison in regional finals
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com LAPEER — It’s not surprising that Clarkston defended its regional volleyball championship this season. What surprises many is the fact the Wolves did so despite graduating over half of its team from last year. The third-ranked Wolves are making a statement that they could be even better than a […]
AOTW: Marani stands tall to give Clarkston some net presence
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com CLARKSTON — There has always been some confusion of how Stephanie Marani pronounces her last name. “I say it one way, but a lot of people say it another way,” she laughed. “It doesn’t really bother me at all.” While there may be some mystery on the exact annunciation […]
Blue-collar Avondale community stands as one on this championship day
In the movie, Hoosiers, the fictional town of Hickory, Indiana, is boasted by characters as being “not found on most state maps.” The small, rural, western Indiana town, stakes claim to notoriety when Hickory makes an improbable run to the Indiana state high school boys basketball crown in the late 1940s, thus carving its name […]
Troy punches in, punches out Southfield to advance to regional finals
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com LAKE ORION — After suffering a first-round exit from last year’s postseason, Troy was eager to return to the spot of being one of Oakland County’s top volleyball teams this season, a position the Colts had enjoyed for many seasons in the past decade. The Colts have opted to […]
College Committments-Letters of Intent
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OAA White Division Girls Swimming & Diving Results
Girls Swimming OAA WHITE DIVISION LEAGUE MEET (Nov. 3-5 at Oxford H.S.) TEAM SCORES — 1. Rochester Stoney Creek, 403; 2. West Bloomfield, 328.5; 3. Bloomfield Hills Andover, 325.5; 4. Rochester, 275; 5. Berkley, 242; 6. Farmington, 238; 7. Oxford, 174. DUAL MEET STANDINGS — 1. Rochester Stoney Creek (6-0); 2. West Bloomfield (5-1); 3. […]
Troy sweeps Southfield to reach regional finals
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net LAKE ORION — Southfield volleyball had improved since the last time Troy played the Blue Jays. But they’ll have to improve a lot more to play with Troy. The Colts spread things around in a mostly lopsided regional final, advancing to Thursday’s match against Lake Orion. Ten players recorded […]
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RC women open with rout of Spring Arbor
ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester College’s women’s basketball team opened up the season in fine fashion Wednesday. The Warriors held visiting Spring Arbor to only 11 first-half points and posted a 45-29 non-league triumph at Rochester High School. Sam Tomaschko led Rochester (1-0) with a game-high 20 points. Whitney Newsome added six points for the Warriors, […]
Rochester College rolls over Madonna College
ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester College landed three players in double figures and the Warriors rolled over Madonna College, 73-50, Wednesday in men’s basketball action at Rochester High. Dramel Hogan led the Warriors with a game-high 29 points. Sean Mattia added 11 points, as did Stephan Henning, and Torey Throop twined nine points to aid the […]
