Category: Sport
BOYS SOCCER: Casualty of War: Clarkston stuns No. 5 Rochester Adams
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — At 5-foot-8, Noah Bridgeman might have been one of the smallest players on the soccer pitch Monday night. With the way the Clarkston sophomore goalkeeper performed, he might as well have been an age-old Redwood tree hovering up near the clouds. Bridgeman stood tall […]
BOYS SOCCER: What can ‘Brown’ do for you? Adams senior goalkeeper delivers in clutch to become best in school history
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — One player’s departure was a blessing in disguise for Dylan Brown. When Brown was a freshman at Rochester Adams, the Highlanders’ returning goalkeeper, Spencer Ward, opted to play with the Vardar Academy and not for Adams for the remainder of his high school days. […]
BOYS SOCCER: Rochester Adams blanks Troy Athens to clinch OAA-Red title
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans TROY — Last year, Rochester Adams had a chance to capture the OAA Red Division title outright before a couple of late-season mishaps ended up with the Highlanders tying for the title along with Clarkston. This year there will be no more sharing. Fifth-ranked Adams made quite […]
GIRLS SWIMMING: Lake Orion aiming again for top-10 waters
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — The sign of a quality program is not always a one-year wonder highlight, but consistency over many seasons. That is exactly where Lake Orion’s girls swimming and diving program stands today after veteran coach Darin Abbasse first helped launch the program back in 1998. […]
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL: Lake Orion climbing back to top 10 territory, eyes OAA Red Division title
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Over the past decade, Lake Orion has consistently fielded a girls volleyball team ranked inside the Class A top 20. That trend has more than continued this season. The Dragons, who finished as the runner-up to state powerhouse North Branch at the Mt. Morris […]
BOYS SOCCER: Avondale clinches OAA-White title; Rochester schools, Athens engage in battle for OAA-Red crown
BY DAN STICKRADT CORRESPONDENT dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans AUBURN HILLS — Five years ago, Auburn Hills Avondale made an improbable run to its first boys soccer Division 2 state title. With a senior-heavy team ranked in the top 10 in D-2 this season, coach Doug Steinard hopes that the Yellowjackets can find the same magic as […]
CROSS-COUNTRY: Seaholm girls win sixth straight Oakland County championship; Novi boys defend title
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans MILFORD TWP. — Sitting on the sidelines all of the spring track season was a difficult task for Audrey Ladd to endure. The Birmingham Seaholm senior is making up for last time this fall. She captured her fourth win of the season Saturday at Kensington Metropark near […]
CROSS COUNTRY: 2016 Oakland County Championships Results
Boys Cross-Country 57TH ANNUAL OAKLAND COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS (10-8 at Kensington Metropark) TEAM SCORES — 1. Novi, 73; 2. Milford, 153; 3. Birmingham Brother Rice, 159; 4. White Lake Lakeland, 175; 5. Clarkston, 176; 6. Lake Orion, 205; 7. Novi Detroit Catholic Central, 233; 8. Walled Lake Central, 281 9. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, 291; 10. […]
FOOTBALL: Lakes holds off Shrine to clinch CHSL-Intersectional title on special night
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans WATERFORD TOWNSHIP — On a night where Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes honored its all-time greatest coach, the Lakers posted a pair of firsts in school history. Our Lady held off visiting Royal Oak Shrine Catholic, 28-20, to clinch the CHSL-Intersectional Division 2 title on a […]
GIRLS GOLF: Rochester shoots state record 289 in winning D-1 regional title
Troy Athens, Rochester Stoney Creek also advance BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — For a program that has finished in the top 10 at the Division 1 state finals 15 times in 20 years, Rochester’s girls golf team outdid even itself Wednesday on the links of Twin Lakes Golf Course. […]
BOYS TENNIS: Regional Scoreboard
DIVISION 1 REGION 7 TOURNAMENT (10-6 at Clarkston H.S.) TEAM SCORES — 1. Bloomfield Hills, 31; 2. Clarkston, 22; 3. Rochester Adams, 17; 4. Rochester, 10; 5. Lake Orion, 9; 6. Rochester Stoney Creek, 5; 7. Oxford, 2; 8. (tie) Waterford Kettering, 0; Waterford Mott, 0. CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHTS SINGES — 1. Josh Mukherjee (Bloomfield Hills) […]
GIRLS GOLF: Regional Scoreboard
DIVISION 1 REGIONAL NO. 5 (10-6 at Westwynd Country Club, par 72) TEAM SCORES — 1. Lake Orion, 344; 2. Bloomfield Hills, 353; 3. Clarkston, 367; 4. Rochester Adams, 404; 5. North Farmington, 410; 6. Oxford, 425; 7. White Lake Lakeland, 443; 8. Walled Lake Central, 468; 9. Walled Lake Northern, 491; 10. Waterford Kettering, […]
FOOTBALL: Fenton runs by rival Holly to motor into FML driver’s seat
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans FENTON — Not a drizzle, not a steady rain and certainly not Holly’s defense could stop Fenton’s high-powered offensive machine Friday night. Perhaps not even a Canadian National freight train on the nearby railroad tracks could have stopped the Tigers, either. The result was Fenton’s 54-35 Flint […]
FOOTBALL: Fast start throttles Lutheran Northwest by rival Oakland Christian
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest has had a difficult time this season getting out of the gate in a hurry. That problem was definitely remedied against rival Auburn Hills Oakland Christian. The Crusaders opened with a 12-0 lead and cruised to a 32-7 triumph […]
GIRLS GOLF: Shorthanded Rochester wins Oakland County D-I crown
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans WATERFORD — A little depth never hurts. Just ask Rochester’s girls golf team. The Falcons, the top-ranked team in Division 1, captured their eighth straight tournament win on the season Wednesday at Pontiac Country Club despite missing one of their top golfers to injury. Rochester, averaging 304.5 […]
FOOTBALL: Double ‘O’ my, Horneffer, Lake Orion outlast Oxford 52-35 for rival trophy
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Max Horneffer certainly came of age Friday night. The Lake Orion senior scored on runs of 8,8, 14 and 17 yards and also grabbed a 38-yard reception for another score, as the host Dragons outlasted neighboring rival Oxford, 52-35, in an OAA Red Division […]
FOOTBALL: Adams continues mastery of Rochester
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Adams had difficulty pulling out tight games last season. Consider Friday’s effort a step in the right direction for the Highlanders. Locked in a 14-14 battle in the third quarter, Adams used a pair of touchdown drives in the period, coupled with some […]
Who will win the 2016 OAA Blue Division football title?
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