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Everest Collegiate trips Lakes for district crown

Everest Collegiate trips Lakes for district crown

| March 10, 2012 | Comments (4)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter:@LocalSportsFans   CLARKSTON — Sometimes a metropolitan area can takes years, even decades, to build up. Championship teams often take many years as well. At Clarkston Everest Collegiate, the boys basketball program has flourished in just three short seasons. The Mountaineers built captured their first-ever CHSL Intersectional Division title […]

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Imlay City clamps down on Notre Dame Prep for district title

Imlay City clamps down on Notre Dame Prep for district title

| March 10, 2012 | Comments (4)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans IMLAY CITY — There was a mandated overtime session Friday in Imlay City and the host Spartans were rewarded with a district trophy for their extra work. Imlay City outscored Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, 18-2, in the overtime period to lift it to a 57-41 victory the […]

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BOYS SWIMMING: OAA White Division Results

BOYS SWIMMING: OAA White Division Results

| March 10, 2012 | Comments (2)

Boys Swimming   OAA WHITE DIVISION LEAGUE MEET (Feb. 22-24 at West Bloomfield) TEAM SCORES — 1. Farmington-Harrison Unified, 465; 2. Rochester Adams, 453; 3. West Bloomfield, 449.5; 4. Bloomfield Hills Andover, 426; 5. Rochester Stoney Creek, 351; 6. Rochester, 349.5; 7. Berkley, 209. DUAL MEET STANDINGS — 1. Farmington-Harrison Unified (6-0); 2. Rochester Adams […]

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BOYS SWIMMING: OAA Red Division Results

BOYS SWIMMING: OAA Red Division Results

| March 10, 2012 | Comments (2)

Boys Swimming   OAA RED DIVISION LEAGUE MEET (Feb. 23-25 at Lake Orion) TEAM SCORES — 1. Birmingham Seaholm, 477.5; 2. Birmingham Groves, 365; 3. Lake Orion, 285; 4. Troy, 271; 5. North Farmington, 233.5; 6. Clarkston, 216; 7. Bloomfield Hills Lahser, 189. DUAL STANDINGS — 1. Birmingham Seaholm (6-0); 2. Birmingham Groves (5-1); 3. […]

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Troy knocked out via Waterford Mott’s upset punch

Troy knocked out via Waterford Mott’s upset punch

| March 10, 2012 | Comments (2)

BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net   TROY — Troy’s boys basketball team was about to reach the point that good teams often hit where they know they can’t lose. But upstart Waterford Mott, the most unlikely dealer of the knockout punches, threw the Colts’ season into a tough combination of sorrow and frustration. The […]

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Fenton snaps Clarkston’s district streak at 19 straight titles, 47 consecutive district wins

Fenton snaps Clarkston’s district streak at 19 straight titles, 47 consecutive district wins

| March 10, 2012 | Comments (8)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans   SWARTZ CREEK — In 1993, Clarkston lost in a boys basketball Class A district semifinal to Romeo, 67-52. At the time, the result didn’t seem to add up to much. The Wolves went on to post one of the longest streaks in the state of Michigan […]

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Breaking the hex: Lake Orion stuns Rochester for first district title in 28 years

Breaking the hex: Lake Orion stuns Rochester for first district title in 28 years

| March 10, 2012 | Comments (7)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans   ROCHESTER HILLS — A long drought had to come to an end Friday night at Rochester Adams. Both Rochester and Lake Orion had not won a district since the mid-1980s, with Rochester’s last district coming in 1988 and Lake Orion’s 1984. Despite losing in the district […]

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SPORTS SHORTS: March, 2012

SPORTS SHORTS: March, 2012

| March 9, 2012 | Comments (1)

MICHIGAN SHOCK TO HOST OPEN GYM DATE The Michigan shock AAU girls basketball program will host an open gym on Sunday, March 11, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Stars Basketball Club in Pontiac. The facility is located at 124 W. Columbia, 48340. Cost is $3 per player. The 11th grade team will host tryouts from […]

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Cruise control: Lakes downs Westland for fourth straight regional crown

Cruise control: Lakes downs Westland for fourth straight regional crown

| March 9, 2012 | Comments (3)

WATERFORD — The members of Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes’ girls basketball program probably don’t mind a little déjà vu this time of year, as long as the Lakers keep winning in the postseason. It’s a case of been there, done that. WOLL, the two-time defending state champs in Class D, took another step […]

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AOTW: Taylor-made: Rochester senior Taylor Perry helping Falcons back to prominence

AOTW: Taylor-made: Rochester senior Taylor Perry helping Falcons back to prominence

| March 9, 2012 | Comments (1)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com   ROCHESTER HILLS — Every time Taylor Perry walks into the gymnasium at Rochester High, he’s given a brief history lesson. The standout basketball player can plainly see the school’s championships over nearly 100 years of high school basketball. But there is something unsettling about those banners on the […]

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GIRLS BASKETBALL: Kettering shuts of Stoney Creek for regional crown

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Kettering shuts of Stoney Creek for regional crown

| March 9, 2012 | Comments (1)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com   LAKE ORION — Scott Woodhull has plenty of memories of Waterford Kettering making a long postseason run. The veteran Waterford Kettering girls basketball coach was on the sidelines when the Captains last made the Class A Final Four in 2000. Now in his second stint with the Captains, […]

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Lake Orion holds off Oxford for district win

Lake Orion holds off Oxford for district win

| March 8, 2012 | Comments (1)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com   ROCHESTER HILLS — One long drought will end Friday night. Lake Orion, which has not won a district championship in boys basketball since 1984, will play for a district championship thanks to a 64-57 victory Wednesday over rival Oxford in a Class A district semifinal at Rochester Adams. […]

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BOYS BASKETBALL: Clarkston thumps Holly, 73-19; Fenton knocks out Brandon

BOYS BASKETBALL: Clarkston thumps Holly, 73-19; Fenton knocks out Brandon

| March 8, 2012 | Comments (1)

SWARTZ CREEK — Clarkston has heard the verbal abuse this season that its size, or lack thereof, will eventually cost the Wolves. Clarkston has time and time again silenced its critics. With one of its smallest teams height-wise since the mid-1990s, the Wolves used their superior guard play to thump Holly, a team with much […]

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Troy avenges Pontiac in district semis; Mott upends Athens

Troy avenges Pontiac in district semis; Mott upends Athens

| March 8, 2012 | Comments (2)

TROY — Behind a 22-17 lead to start the game, Troy was able to grab the early lead and cruised to a 66-57 triumph over Pontiac in a Class A district semifinal at Troy Athens. Pontiac (formerly Pontiac Northern) had knocked the Colts out four times in less than a decade, including in a district […]

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WEDNESDAY’S BOYS BASKETBALL DISTRICT ROUNDUP: Bradford knocks off Northwest at buzzer; Everest Collegiate downs Auburn Hills Christian

WEDNESDAY’S BOYS BASKETBALL DISTRICT ROUNDUP: Bradford knocks off Northwest at buzzer; Everest Collegiate downs Auburn Hills Christian

| March 8, 2012 | Comments (1)

MADISON HEIGHTS — Fernand Franklin drained a game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer in leading Southfield Bradford Academy to a thrilling 67-64 victory over Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest in a Class C district semifinal at Madison Heights Bishop Foley.  Mike Wilson scored 16 and Ellis Martin added 13 points for Bradford Academy (17-4).  Nathan Drews scored […]

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Rochester survives Adams in double overtime

Rochester survives Adams in double overtime

| March 7, 2012 | Comments (1)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com   ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Adams erected a huge game plan for Wednesday evening: Stop Rochester’s dynamite duo of Taylor Perry and Paris Periera and make some other players beat the Highlanders. Adams did halt the Falcons’ standout pair, but finally succumbed in the end to Rochester. The Falcons […]

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Arthur Hill uses quickness to dispatch Clarkston

Arthur Hill uses quickness to dispatch Clarkston

| March 7, 2012 | Comments (2)

DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com   BAY CITY — Speed is a weapon that a coach cannot teach or simulate in practice. Clarkston has a lot of speed and quickness in girls basketball this season. The Wolves met their match Tuesday night in the Class A regional semifinals. Saginaw Arthur Hill used its overall quickness […]

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Lakers sail into regional finals with rout of Roeper

Lakers sail into regional finals with rout of Roeper

| March 7, 2012 | Comments (3)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com   WATERFORD — Several of the top Class D girls basketball programs fell to the way side during district week. Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes has made sure that it has not become one of those victims.   The Lakers, the two-time defending state champions, rolled over visiting […]

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