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GIRLS SOCCER STATE FINALS: Okemos blanks Troy, leaves no doubt on state’s best team

GIRLS SOCCER STATE FINALS: Okemos blanks Troy, leaves no doubt on state’s best team

| June 16, 2012 | Comments (0)

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 […]

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Lancers enjoying best times with depleted lineup

Lancers enjoying best times with depleted lineup

| June 15, 2012 | Comments (2)

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 […]

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GIRLS SOCCER: Lakes-Everest upends Bishop Foley to reach second state finals in three years

GIRLS SOCCER: Lakes-Everest upends Bishop Foley to reach second state finals in three years

| June 14, 2012 | Comments (0)

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. […]

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GIRLS SOCCER: Too ‘Powers’ful: Top-ranked Chargers blank NDP in state semis

GIRLS SOCCER: Too ‘Powers’ful: Top-ranked Chargers blank NDP in state semis

| June 14, 2012 | Comments (0)

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 […]

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MHSAA NEWS: Athens’ Robert Dowd named one of 2012 Bush Award recipients

MHSAA NEWS: Athens’ Robert Dowd named one of 2012 Bush Award recipients

| June 14, 2012 | Comments (0)

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 […]

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Rochester Adams mourns loss of popular teacher, coach Shaltz

Rochester Adams mourns loss of popular teacher, coach Shaltz

| June 14, 2012 | Comments (0)

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 […]

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GIRLS SOCCER: Troy stymies Canton to get back to state finals

GIRLS SOCCER: Troy stymies Canton to get back to state finals

| June 13, 2012 | Comments (1)

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 […]

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GIRLS SOCCER: Okemos cashes in overtime goal to oust Adams in state semifinals

GIRLS SOCCER: Okemos cashes in overtime goal to oust Adams in state semifinals

| June 13, 2012 | Comments (1)

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 […]

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PREP STATE RANKINGS — June 10

PREP STATE RANKINGS — June 10

| June 12, 2012 | Comments (1)

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. […]

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BOYS GOLF: Regional Scoreboard

BOYS GOLF: Regional Scoreboard

| June 12, 2012 | Comments (1)

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, […]

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DAILY POLL: Which team from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage area has the best chance of winning a girls soccer state championship?

DAILY POLL: Which team from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage area has the best chance of winning a girls soccer state championship?

| June 11, 2012 | Comments (1)

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PREP SOFTBALL: Lakeland the one left standing at all-star regional

PREP SOFTBALL: Lakeland the one left standing at all-star regional

| June 11, 2012 | Comments (0)

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 […]

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PREP BASEBALL: Hartland shuts off Lake Orion to claim regional title

PREP BASEBALL: Hartland shuts off Lake Orion to claim regional title

| June 10, 2012 | Comments (1)

Rochester Adams, Rochester Stoney Creek also ousted   BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans   HARTLAND — And then there was silence. Lake Orion, champions of the OAA Red Division with the second highest win total (30) in school history, were blanked for only the second time all season Saturday — at the […]

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GIRLS SOCCER: Lakes-Everest avenges Nouvel, reaches D-4 Final Four

GIRLS SOCCER: Lakes-Everest avenges Nouvel, reaches D-4 Final Four

| June 9, 2012 | Comments (1)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans  BURTON — Five seasons, three district championships, two regional titles and one state crown. And the fifth season isn’t even done just yet. That’s the success story for the Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes-Clarkston Everest Collegiate Unified girls soccer team. In just its fifth season of […]

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GIRLS SOCCER: Notre Dame Prep wins first regional since 2000

GIRLS SOCCER: Notre Dame Prep wins first regional since 2000

| June 9, 2012 | Comments (0)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans   BEVERLY HILLS — It wasn’t a matter of when Pontiac Notre Dame Prep would score on Grosse Ile Friday night. It was more of a matter of how often. The Fighting Irish pelted Grosse Ile for most of 80 minutes and ousted the Red Devils, 4-1, […]

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BOYS GOLF: Oakland Christian wins fourth straight regional crown

BOYS GOLF: Oakland Christian wins fourth straight regional crown

| June 9, 2012 | Comments (0)

Lutheran Northwest, Everest’s Smith also make the cut   BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans   OAKLAND TWP. — By his estimates, Randy Johnson feels that Auburn Hills Oakland Christian took its mulligan Thursday on the golf course. The Lancers “didn’t have their best round of golf,” according to the veteran boys golf […]

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GIRLS SOCCER: Troy downs Grosse Pointe South to claim ninth regional title

GIRLS SOCCER: Troy downs Grosse Pointe South to claim ninth regional title

| June 9, 2012 | Comments (0)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans FRASER — Troy ventured through a slight postseason drought from 2006-2008, not winning a district title in girls soccer. As a state powerhouse program hailing from a conference annually regarded as the state’s best, that three-year dry run was a low spot of a proud program not […]

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GIRLS SOCCER: Unlikely hero lifts Adams to ninth regional title

GIRLS SOCCER: Unlikely hero lifts Adams to ninth regional title

| June 9, 2012 | Comments (0)

LAKE ORION — Hannah Grieb picked the right time to score her first varsity goal. The sophomore scored in the 96th minute of the second overtime session to spark Rochester Adams to a 2-1 victory over Midland Dow in a Division 1 regional final at Lake Orion High School. Fourth-ranked Adams (18-4-2) advances to the […]

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