Category: High School
GIRLS SOCCER: New kid on the block Okemos ruins Troy’s title party
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net EASTLANSING — Most of the giants were gone. Top-ranked Northville, bye-bye. Defending state champion Novi, out of the picture. OAA Red champion Rochester Adams, departed. They were all out of the girls soccer tournament, and the only one left standing from the east side was Troy. So when eighth-ranked […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Troy’s Irene Young wins Miss Soccer award
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans TROY — Irene Young had a secret that she had to hold onto for a few days. The recent Troy High graduate found out the day of Troy’s state semifinal on June 13 that she was to receive the highest honor of any high school soccer […]
BOYS GOLF: Lancers dip to fourth at D-4 state finals
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans EAST LANSING — Defending Division 4 state champion Auburn Hills Oakland Christian has fallen from grace. The Lancers, who won the D-4 boys golf state title in convincing fashion last season, dropped to fourth overall at this year’s state tournament. Oakland Christian posted a two-day total […]
GIRLS SOCCER STATE FINALS: Calvin Christian drowns Lakes-Everest for D-4 crown
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans EAST LANSING — Seemingly, Grandville Calvin Christian had the Midas touch Saturday afternoon. Everything the Squires struck turned to gold. Fourth-ranked Calvin Christian scored six times at Michigan State University’s Old College Field the Squires struck that was more than enough to drown sixth-ranked Waterford Our […]
JAKE’S TAKE: In good hands…Troy’s Holland is one of state’s best
TROY — You had a tough decision last Sunday, Michigan High School Soccer Coaches Association panel. You had to select the All-State girls soccer players for the first, second, and third teams, plus honorable mention. That’s no easy task. That’s why I’m making it easier. The best goalie in the state is Troy junior Alison […]
GIRLS SOCCER STATE FINALS: Okemos blanks Troy, leaves no doubt on state’s best team
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans EAST LANSING — Simply put, Okemos left no doubt who the best girls soccer team in the state was in 2012. The Chieftains finished up an improbably season, finishing 24-1-1, yielding six goals and pitching 20 shutouts. The final chapter came in Saturday’s Division 1 state […]
Lancers enjoying best times with depleted lineup
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans AUBURN HILLS — Needless to say, Auburn Hills Oakland Christian is a small school power on the golf course. Check out the rankings and standings in Division 4, or the team scores at a bevy of tournaments each year, and the Lancers are located in their […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Lakes-Everest upends Bishop Foley to reach second state finals in three years
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans PONTIAC — While Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes-Clarkston Everest Collegiate Unified might have one of the state’s longest names for a high school athletics program in the state of Michigan, the Lakers do have one of the shortest time periods for its girls soccer team. […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Too ‘Powers’ful: Top-ranked Chargers blank NDP in state semis
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — There are some puzzles that just can’t be solved. For Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, the Fighting Irish simply could not solve top-ranked and defending state champion Flint Powers Catholic on the soccer pitch on two separate occasions this season. After falling to Powers […]
MHSAA NEWS: Athens’ Robert Dowd named one of 2012 Bush Award recipients
EAST LANSING — Four athletics administrators who additionally have made significant contributions at the league, state and MHSAA tournament levels — Robin Dilday of Utica, Robert Dowd of Troy, Curt Ellis of Saline and Greg Lattig of Mason — have been named the recipients of the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Allen W. Bush Award […]
Rochester Adams mourns loss of popular teacher, coach Shaltz
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — There are many people that are loyal to the institution they belong, the company they work for or even to their family. Steve Shaltz was one of those people. “Steve was all about commitment and passion and he was very loyal,” said Rochester […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Troy stymies Canton to get back to state finals
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net FARMINGTON — There was one key difference between Troy and Plymouth Canton heading into their girls soccer state semifinal matchup Wednesday. “(Coach Brian Zawislak) said before the game — we’ve been here before and they haven’t,” Troy forward Madison Hirsch said. “So let’s show them how to play […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Okemos cashes in overtime goal to oust Adams in state semifinals
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans HOLT — Sometimes soccer can come down to one big play. Okemos had a grand opportunity in overtime Wednesday and seized the moment. The second-ranked Chiefs picked up a goal in the first overtime period and the defense made it stand in a 1-0 victory over […]
PREP STATE RANKINGS — June 10
PREP STATE RANKINGS Boys Golf (By the coaches association) Division 1 — 1. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central; 2. Plymouth; 3. Muskegon Mona Shores; 4. Birmingham Brother Rice; 5. Traverse City Central; 6. Pinckney; 7. Battle Creek Lakeview; 8. Grand Blanc; 9. Novi Detroit Catholic Central; 10. Grosse Pointe South; 11. Plymouth Canton; 12. Saline. […]
BOYS GOLF: Regional Scoreboard
Boys Golf DIVISION 4 REGIONAL (June 8 at Westwynd G.C.) TEAM SCORES — 1. Auburn Hills Oakland Christian, 327; 2. (tie) Ann Arbor Greenhills, 359; Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest, 359; 4. Grosse Pointe Woods University-Liggett, 360; 5. Clarkston Everest Collegiate-Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes Unified, 361; 6. Southfield Christian, 362; 7. Plymouth Christian, […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Troy shuts down Grosse Pointe South to win regional
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net FRASER — It’s hard to beat a good team two or three times in one season. But, as the Troy girls soccer team is proving, it’s even harder to beat the Colts in the playoffs. Troy senior Irene Young poked in the game-winner in a Division 1 regional […]
PREP SOFTBALL: Lakeland the one left standing at all-star regional
Romeo stuns No. 2 Clarkston; Athens eliminated BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans HARTLAND — There is one thing that Joe Alsup really enjoys about winning regional championships. “It never gets old,” smiled Alsup, White Lake Lakeland’s veteran softball coach. Sixth-ranked Lakeland downed Romeo, 3-0, Saturday in a Division 1 regional […]
