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GIRLS SOCCER: Troy shuts down Grosse Pointe South to win regional
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net FRASER — It’s hard to beat a good team two or three times in one season. But, as the Troy girls soccer team is proving, it’s even harder to beat the Colts in the playoffs. Troy senior Irene Young poked in the game-winner in a Division 1 regional […]
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 […]
PDL SOCCER: Bucks maintain Great Lakes League with 1-0 victory over Fire Premier
BY DAN DUGGAN CORRESPONDENT NOVI — Different venue, same result. Last Tuesday the Michigan Bucks welcomed the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer to over 2,000 fans at Ultimate Soccer Arenas and sent them home with a one goal defeat. Saturday night the Bucks played the Fire Premier (PDL) in front of nearly 800 fans at Novi […]
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 […]
Notre Dame Prep caps ‘bannerful’ weekend
MIKE KELLY CORRESPONDENT PONTIAC — Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be a weekend to remember for the athletics program at Pontiac Notre Dame Prep. The Fighting Irish captured three district championships, one regional championship and two individual track and field individual state championships, what Notre Dame Prep Athletics Director Betty Wroubel called a “phenomenal couple […]
PREP BASEBALL: Lake Orion ends five-year drought, claims district crown
LAKE ORION — Despite being one of the state’s top prep baseball programs over the past dozen years, Lake Orion has run into a postseason roadblock on the baseball diamond in recent times. Since winning its only state baseball championship in 2007, the state-ranked Dragons have not been able to escape the district round of […]
BASEBALL: Stoney Creek topples Eisenhower for first district title
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans SHELBY TWP. — A decade can be a long time to suffer through the disease of frustration. That’s been the postseason fever for Rochester Stoney Creek’s baseball team. Beginning in its inaugural 2003 season, the Cougars did not win a postseason game through 2010 and in […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Notre Dame Prep edges Gabriel Richard, advances to regional finals
BEVERLY HILLS — Taylor Timko notched the game winner in the second half, and that proved to be the game-winner in Pontiac Notre Dame Prep’s 2-1 victory over Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard in a Division 3 girls soccer regional semifinal at Birmingham Detroit Country Day. Timko scored in the 52nd minute off a free […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Lakes-Everest keeps unbeaten season alive, drains Harbor Beach in regional semifinals
BURTON — Still unbeaten. Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes-Clarkston Everest Collegiate showed no signs of slowing down Tuesday, recovering little resistance in an 8-0 shutout of Harbor Beach in a Division 4 regional semifinal at Burton Atherton. Lindsey Straw scored bookend goals and both Rachelle Topolewski and Ava Doetsch also scored two goals to […]
SOFTBALL: Clarkston trips up Lake Orion, Kettering for district crown
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — After suffering the pain of being an upset victim the past two seasons, Clarkston’s softball team more than made up for it at Monday’s Division 1 district. The second-ranked Wolves blanked Lake Orion 8-0 in the semifinals and avenged Waterford Kettering, the same […]
PDL SOCCER: Michigan Bucks’ ends historic Open Cup run in Sweet 16
BY DAN DUGGAN CORRESPONDENT ROCHESTER HILLS — The run is over. The Michigan Bucks run towards Open Cup history ended Tuesday night when the home team was defeated by the Dayton Dutch Lions 2-1 in a game that reached double overtime and a shootout in a contest played in front of 1,100 fans at Oakland […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Troy cruises past Anchor Bay into regional finals
FRASER — There could be something magical about 2-0 scores and Troy’s girls soccer team this postseason. The Colts captured their fourth straight win of the postseason Tuesday, the third straight by a 2-0 count, by topping New Baltimore Anchor Bay in a Division 1 regional semifinal at Fraser High School. Troy, which has now […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Adams blanks Grand Blanc to reach regional finals
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — There’s a lot to be said about experience in the state tournament. Rochester Adams has plenty of such experience on the soccer pitch — and that experience has been a much-needed commodity for the injury-plagued Highlanders, who may have to change their nickname […]
