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FOOTBALL: Stoney Creek cruises to shutout of Pontiac
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans PONTIAC — With each passing quarter, Rochester Stoney Creek is a football team that is gaining confidence and playing with a new-found swagger. After combining for a 3-15 record the past two years, including 1-8 last season where the Cougars finished on an eight-game skid, Stoney […]
FRIDAY FOOTBALL: Lake Orion shatters school record in 68-point outburst; Clarkston, Oxford win league openers
DETROIT — Lake Orion was somewhat unimpressive offensively in earning 17-10 victory in Week 1 over Oxford. The Dragons, often a pass-happy team, did not complete a single pass last week. Lake Orion was more compared to an erupting volcano Friday afternoon at Ford Field in Detroit and finally re-discovered its potent offense. Playing in […]
FOOTBALL: Critical matters: Rochester outslugs Troy in key OAA-Red showdown
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — For a football program that has only started a season 2-0 only twice during the previous 20 years, style points are not an issue for Rochester. Finding ways to win football games is the mission. The Falcons ventured down “Ugly Game Boulevard” Thursday at […]
BOYS TENNIS ROUNDUP: Adams edges Stoney Creek; Seaholm swats Rochester
ROCHESTER ADAMS 5, ROCHSTER STONEY CREEK 4 SINGLES — 1. Nick Fiaschetti (RSC) d. Justin Hyman 6-3,6-2; 2. Charles Xu (RA) d. Vlad Oltean 6-1, 6-0; 3. Rahul Jain (RA) d. Ben Li 6-1, 6-2; 4. Eric Chang (RA) d. Shyam Sudheera 6-3, 6-0. DOUBLES — 1. Jake Kruk-Chris Stanburg (RSC) d. Zhibin Deng-Matt Lillie […]
THURSDAY’S FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Avondale, Northwest, Notre Dame Prep all gain lopsided wins
AUBURN HILLS — Despite some early miscues and an 6-0 deficit, Auburn Hills Avondale got untracked in the second quarter Thursday and eventually scored 41 unanswered points in a 41-6 trouncing of visiting Birmingham Groves in an OAA Blue Division football game. Avondale scored 14 points in each the second and third quarters and tacked […]
BOYS SOCCER: Eagles upend defending soccer state champions
ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Hills Christian opened up the newly-named Wolverine Christian Conference boys soccer season with a win over a defending state champion. The Eagles, who lost to Davison Faith Baptist, 2-1, in last year’s Michigan Association of Christian Schools Division I state finals, toppled visiting Faith Baptist 2-0 Tuesday, gaining its revenge some […]
STICK’S PICKS: Week 2 offers some delicious early-season, all-important matchups
Early in the season it’s sometimes hard to gage just how a team will fare over the length of the football campaign. There are winning streaks, losing streaks, the unexpected, the expected, injuries and teams that come from out of the blue. There are also games in the early stages that turn out to be […]
BOYS SOCCER: Unpredictable Athens rallies to trip up Adams
DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Todd Heugh openly admits that he doesn’t know what to expect from his Troy Athens boys soccer team this sdason. Perhaps the second-year coach learned a thing or two about his side Tuesday. The Red Hawks found a way to fight back from a […]
Mr. Basketball candidate Young transfers from Troy to Rochester
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — James Young, one the nation’s top high school boys basketball players, has left Troy High School and has enrolled in nearby Rochester High School. Vic Fournier, athletics director at Rochester High, confirmed that Young and his family officially enrolled him at Rochester High […]
FOOTBALL: Swartz Creek has Holly’s number once again
HOLLY — For the fourth straight year, Swartz Creek has got the best of Holly on the football field. The Dragons went to the air to thwart Holly, 37-19, in a Flint Metro League opener Friday. After building just a 7-6 lead at the half, Swartz Creek erupted for a 30-13 second half. Jaylen Schoenfield […]
FRIDAY NIGHTS 2012: Area teams slated for big years
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. — Even with a tradition rich pool of prep football programs in the region, last season was an anomaly in terms of postseason success. Although 10 local schools — Auburn Hills Avondale, Clarkston, Holly, Lake Orion, Ortonville Brandon, Oxford, Pontiac, Pontiac Notre Dame […]
FOOTBALL: Our Lady of the Lakes sacks revenge on Villa Angela
CLEVELAND — It was a year ago when Cleveland Villa Angela St. Joesph clobbered Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes 41-14 in a prep football season opener. Fast forward to Saturday and the Lakers gained their sweet revenge. WOLL recorded a lopsided 42-6 win over the host Eagles at Euclid (Ohio) High School. The Lakers […]
FOOTBALL: Stoney Creek thwarts Royal Oak, gains first win in Zube era
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Stoney Creek and Royal both finished 1-8 on the gridiron last fall. Both entered the 2012 season with new coaching staffs. That is about the only thing the two programs have in common. Stoney Creek showed that it was much further along […]
SATURDAY’S BOYS SOCCER: Athens, Lutheran Northwest record wins
TROY— Max Klitzke scored a goal and an assists, as Troy Athens toppled Livonia Stevenson for the third time in two seasons Saturday in a non-league boys soccer match, 3-0. Luis Ayala added a goal and an assists and Bryan Lawson also scored for the Red Hawks (2-10). Brett Schmitz recorded the shutout in goal. […]
MIAC FOOTBALL: Lancers pick up forfeit win; Michigan Collegiate rolls Northwest
HAMTRAMCK — Auburn hills Oakland Christian learned Friday that it would win its season-opening game via forfeit. The Lancers were slated to play at Hamtramck Friday night but were given notice that Hamtramck would not have enough players available for the contest due to disciplinary reasons of a large group of players. Officially, the MHSAA […]
THROUGH THE CAMARA EYE — SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY INDEX
THROUGH THE CAMARA EYE — SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY INDEX / www.northoaklandsports.com Below is a list of local independent photographers and videographers from the area that will be taking digital action photos or video of sports events and that have donated courtesy photos and video clips to digital daily www.northoaklandsports.com. Please visit their websites or […]
FOOTBALL: Lake Orion rallies past Oxford to reclaim Battle of M-24 trophy
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Oxford accomplished something against Lake Orion that few teams have been able to accomplish in recent years: Keep the Dragons off the scoreboard during the first half. That effort simply awoke a sleeping giant. Lake Orion scored 17 unanswered, second-half points in topping […]
OXFORD PREVIEW: Wildcats look to hold onto upper echelon status
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans OXFORD — Bud Rowley gets asked a lot of questions these days. Who is going to replace Mr. Football Prescott Line and towering lineman Collin Goetz, who plowed room for Line using his 6-foot-7, 260-pound frame last season? Those are just two routine questions he hears all […]
