Category: Editor’s Column
LAKE ORION PREVIEW: Can Dragons reload for another lengthy postseason run?
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com LAKE ORION — Chris Bell does not like all of the extra attention he received last fall. The veteran football coach is a father and an assistant principal at Lake Orion High School to go along with his head coaching duties. That draws in plenty of demands already. So [...]
College Committments-Signings
ONTO THE NEXT LEVEL … Know of a student-athlete that has signed a letter of intent, made an oral commitment, agreed to terms for a walk-on position or is currently playing collegiate sports from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage region? Please feel free to submit information about any local athletes. Include photos and contact information and we [...]
North Oakland Sports expands to three more schools
OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. — NorthOaklandSports.com has expanded. Founded in December, 2009, to replace former print publications or current print publications that have severely downsized in recent times, has added the communities of Holly and Ortonville and incorporated Holly, Ortonville Brandon and Pontiac Notre Dame Prep high schools into its coverage region. Previously, NOS included public [...]
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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 [...]
FLASHBACK: Third annual TRC golf outing reaches goal of ‘chippin in’ for special causes
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — Nikki Baize Moran is quite honest about her golfing etiquette. The 1990 Rochester High School grad hasn’t swung a club in over seven years until Friday, when she hit the links. “I haven’t played in a long, long time,” she laughed, just moments after participating in [...]
FLASHBACK: All for charity … Friends ‘link up’ for a good cause
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Joe Perk remembers the day like it was just moments ago. It was a day supposed to be set aside for Christmas gift-wrapping and last-minute shopping. After all, Christmas was only three short days away and with many events planned for the holidays, there was [...]
Fore their memory: Golfers, friends, family unite for fallen colleagues
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — Greg Beckett remembers the time that he surpassed his father as a golfer. “I started golfing around the time I was a freshman in high school. At that time I was way worse than my dad,” said Beckett. “Half a year later and I pretty much [...]
Veteran Soccer icon Storch to call it a career at Troy Athens
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY — Ending weeks of speculation, Tim Storch, the only head soccer coach that Troy Athens has never known, has announced that the 2011 girls season will be his last. Storch, who came to Athens in 1981 and began the varsity boys soccer program there that August, and the [...]
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Sports website www.northoaklandsports.com, operated by the Stickradt Media Group and serving several northern suburbs of the Detroit Metropolitan area, including Auburn Hills, Clarkston, Lake Orion, Oxford, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Troy and surrounding townships, was founded in December, 2009, to help fill a void vacated by former print media that have ceased publication. The site covers [...]
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Do you have video you wish to submit? Do you have video of a local high school varsity, college, youth/club or recreational league? Feel free to send us the youtube link and embed code for publication consideration. For details, e-mail Senior Editor Dan Stickradt at dan.stickradt@northoaklandspor ts.com. Comeback daily to www.northoaklandsports.com, home of over 4 [...]
From rags to riches: Oxford slowly builds program to reach ultimate goal
BATTLE CREEK — When a program is at an all-time low, it’s hard to imagine being up on top. That’s the way Paul McDevitt viewed it in the mid-1990s when he took over Oxford’s wrestling program. The program couldn’t even compete with a full lineup. “They didn’t win a match the year before I took [...]
REPORTING VARSITY RESULTS
REPORTING SCORES Varsity coaches are urged to report varsity results by calling the nightline recording at (248) 812-1053, or e-mail senior editor Dan Stickradt at dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com or results@northoaklandsports.com)
Adams-Rochester to clash at Crosstown Showdown
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — The rivalry between Rochester and Rochester Adams in some sports goes back some 40 years to the 1969-70 school year, when Adams opened its doors. The rivalry still stands today. Although somewhat different due to the district moving to three high schools in 2002, the Adams-Rochester [...]
