Category: High School (M-Z)
Oxford’s new ‘Blue Turf’ to debut Monday
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com OXFORD — When Prescott Line walks onto the football field Monday morning, he will be considered an early riser. He’ll also be considered a pioneer. Line, a senior-to-be at Oxford High School and a three-sport athlete for the Wildcats, will walk into the first practice on his school’s new […]
Schiller, Hall honored as MITCA 2011 Miss Track, Mr. Track
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com After some dominating performances this past high school track and field season, Grand Ledge’s Tory Schiller and East Kentwood’s Ricco Hall were given the state’s top honor this week by being awarded as the 2011 Michigan Interscholastic Track Coaches Association recipients of Miss Track and Mr. Track. The duo, […]
Eight local softball players earn All-State honors
Eight softball players with local ties were named to the 2011 Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association All-State teams, recently released across the state. There were five players from Division 1 and three from Division 4 that hail from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage area that earned All-State accolades. On the Division 1 All-State First Team were […]
Lutheran Northwest’s Mischley signs with Rochester College
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Eric Mischley had one of the better individual seasons in school history for baseball at Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest, yet he had very little interest from college coaches. The hometown best kept secret will stay home and play for coach Jordan Ackerman at Rochester College. Mischley, […]
Kreza, Kemp, Youngerman lead record 24 area boys lacrosse All-State players
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com The increase of teams and overall talent in boys lacrosse has escalated by great levels in recent years and with that so has the number of All-State players from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage area. This season there was a record 24 total All-State honorees from the NOS area, 20 in […]
Dieters, Spindler lead area netters on All-State tennis list
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Kelsey Dieters had one of the more successful careers of any female high school tennis player in recent years in Michigan and the recent graduate of Rochester High School continued that by heading up the Michigan High School Tennis Coaches Association All-State Teams. Dieters, the 2011 Miss Tennis, headed […]
Oakland Christian trio head up D-4 All-State golf list
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Three golfers with local ties were named to the Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association All-State Boys Golf Teams, released recently by the association for the 2011 season. All three players hailed from Division 4 state champion Auburn Hills Oakland Christian. Juniors Tyler Coyne and Zach Preuss were named to […]
Brannon, Young pace 26 local all-state soccer players
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com As expected, Troy Athens senior Olivia Brannon was named the 2011 Miss Soccer by the Michigan High School Soccer Coaches Association, leading 26 all-state players from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage area. Brannon is on the 11-member all-state Dream Team, which also includes 10 other standout players from around the state, […]
FLASHBACK: Exit Stage Left: Storch ready to sail into the sunset
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com (Editor’s Note: This is a republish from a story that originally ran on June 5 but was inadvertently removed from the archives.) TROY — Tim Storch remembers when he was first pushed towards being a goalkeeper. A student at Birmingham Groves High School in the mid-1970s, the hockey and […]
Former Athens soccer coach Storch now the man in charge at Alpena
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ALPENA — Tim Storch is in need of a new wardrobe. The recent Troy to Alpena transplant must trade in his gold and red for some green and white. One of the state’s all-time winningest soccer coaches at the high school level while at Troy Athens High School, Storch […]
Heugh is Storch’s successor at Troy Athens
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY — Todd Heugh is coming home. The Troy Athens graduate has officially been named the successor for retired Athens soccer coach Tim Storch, who left in June after 30 schools years as both a teacher and soccer coach at the school. Storch is the only soccer coach the […]
WOLL’s Robak to play in All-Star Basketball Festival at the Palace
AUBURN HILLS — The 32nd annual All-Star Basketball Festival will be contested at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Aug. 6. The game will feature some of the best high school basketball players in the state from the Class of 2011. Tickets are available at $10, $15 and $20 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster […]
Johnson takes stroke play at Michigan Women’s Amateur
Yurik, Compton, Meier all in top 10 heading into match play BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP — Sarah Johnson knows that a top-seed has never lost in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in the first round. She wants to make sure that type of upset doesn’t happen in women’s golf, either, at […]
2011 ALL-AREA BOYS LACROSSE: This group snatches the opposition in its web
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com The growth of boys lacrosse in the area can be determined by many ways. It all starts with teams success, where two teams from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage area advanced to the regional finals in 2011 with one of those teams reaching the state semifinals as well. That was the […]
ALL-OAA SOFTBALL TEAMS 2011
ALL-OAA SOFTBALL TEAMS 2011 ALL-OAA RED DIVISION FINAL STANDINGS — 1. North Farmington (10-0-0); 2. Lake Orion (6-3-1); 3. Clarkston (6-4-0); 4. Troy (5-4-1); 5. Oxford (2-8-0); 6. West Bloomfield (1-9-0). ALL-RED DIVISION TEAM — Megan Keller, North Farmington fr. SS; Katie Creighton, North Farmington fr. 2B; Katy Severson, North Farmington jr. P-1B; Kaitlyn Kendall, […]
2011 ALL-AREA SOFTBALL: All-around talents heat up the diamond
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com The 2011 softball season was definitely a year of transition for teams across the state of Michigan. With the pitcher’s circle being pushed back three feet to be the same distance as college, offensive numbers were up significantly while pitching numbers dropped at many schools as those pitchers adapted […]
AOTW: She’s legit: Northwest’s Thompson rises to stardom despite small-school tag
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — It didn’t take very long for Kirsten Thompson to prove that she belonged at the varsity level. She became one of the top players at Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest early in her freshman year. That was only three short years ago. Since then, Thompson has also […]
2011 ALL-AREA BASEBALL: Diamond squad is armed and lethally dangerous
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com The senior class of baseball players in Michigan was known to be as deep of a group since the Class of 1998, where nine in-state prep players were drafted. The state this season again had nine prep players selected in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft and had an […]
