Category: Prep Wraps
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, […]
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 […]
PREP BASEBALL: Hartland shuts off Lake Orion to claim regional title
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 […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Lakes-Everest avenges Nouvel, reaches D-4 Final Four
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 […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Notre Dame Prep wins first regional since 2000
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, […]
BOYS GOLF: Oakland Christian wins fourth straight regional crown
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 […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Troy downs Grosse Pointe South to claim ninth regional title
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 […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Unlikely hero lifts Adams to ninth regional title
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 […]
