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Southfield Christian suffocates Everest Collegiate
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Death by suffocation can sometimes been slow and painful. In other times, it can be long and quite horrendous. Southfield Christian caused such death by suffocation Monday night, and it was the long, punishing, agonizing death type. The Eagles, ranked second in the […]
Dragons mount big comeback to advance to Sweet 16
LAKE ORION — Behind an improbable comeback, Lake Orion kept its dream season Monday night and at Bloomfield Hills Lahser’s expense. The host Dragons bounded back from an 18-0 deficit after the first quarter to stun Bloomfield Hills Lahser, 52-50, in a Class A boys basketball regional semifinal at Lake Orion. Lake Orion will place […]
The journey: Everest Collegiate responds to baptism under fire with fine third season
CLARKSTON — Sometimes the odds are stacked against you, especially when the numbers are not there to support it. Ann Lowney has had to face that at Clarkston Everest Collegiate, which added a high school four years ago. It’s been a climb, but a somewhat surprising rapid climb towards the top despite being such a […]
Oakwood stuns Rochester College for USCAA national title
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter:@LocalSportsFans UNIONTOWN, Pa. — Austin Doggette found the opportune time to become red hot from beyond the arc. The senior guard for Oakwood University was 6-of-11 from three-point range, including two late threes inside the final two minutes, as the seventh-seeded Ambassadors stunned top-seeded Rochester College, 54-51, late […]
Everest Collegiate trips Lakes for district crown
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 […]
Imlay City clamps down on Notre Dame Prep for district title
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 […]
BOYS SWIMMING: OAA White Division Results
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 […]
BOYS SWIMMING: OAA Red Division Results
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. […]
Troy knocked out via Waterford Mott’s upset punch
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 […]
Fenton snaps Clarkston’s district streak at 19 straight titles, 47 consecutive district wins
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 […]
Breaking the hex: Lake Orion stuns Rochester for first district title in 28 years
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 […]
AOTW: Floor general Henning returns to lead Rochester College
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Stephan Henning was faced with a dilemma two years ago at Rochester College. Return the following season and then finish classes long after his college basketball career was complete, or take a redshirt year in 2010-11 and then play with an extremely talented […]
SPORTS SHORTS: March, 2012
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 […]
Cruise control: Lakes downs Westland for fourth straight regional crown
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 […]
GIRLS BASKETBALL: Kettering shuts of Stoney Creek for regional crown
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, […]
Lake Orion holds off Oxford for district win
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. […]
SPORTS SHORTS: Avondale pair wins state indoor track titles; Elite lacrosse camp heading to Country Day w/ Video
YPSILANTI — Auburn Hills Avondale’s Kyle Redwine earned the Boys Track Performer of 2012 award on the winter indoor circuit, as the senior became one of the nation’s top sprinters. Redwine won the 60-meter dash at the Michigan Indoor High School Championships Saturday at Eastern Michigan University, clocking in at 6.83 seconds. Redwine’s effort was […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Clarkston thumps Holly, 73-19; Fenton knocks out Brandon
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 […]
