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GIRLS SOCCER: Waterford Lakes edges Clarkston Everest for district title
BURTON — A year ago the unified girls soccer team of Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes and Clarkston Everest Collegiate made a run to the Division 4 state finals. This school year the two neighboring Catholic high schools ended their cooperative agreement in multiple sports, forcing the two into separate programs. It was […]
BASEBALL: Everest Collegiate downs rival Waterford Lakes for district title
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans DRYDEN — For the past six years, Clarkston Everest Collegiate’s baseball players competed on the same unified program with Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes. Now that the Mountaineers have split off from the Lakers, Everest climbed past its former teammates in a 3-2 victory Monday […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Midland Calvary upends defending MACS state champion Troy Bethany for title in first season
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR Dan.Stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Most programs take years to build. Midland Calvary Baptist did it just a few short months. The Kings’ first-year girls soccer program was the last team standing this season —its first as varsity program — with a 3-2 victory over defending Michigan Association of […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Athens slips past Berkley to reach district finals
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR Dan.Stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans TROY — Survive and advance. That’s the name of the game this time of year as the state tournament takes place on the soccer pitch. Troy Athens is still alive and well in the postseason, as the fifth-ranked Red Hawks continued to advance through the state […]
TRACK: Oak Park puts on clinic to sweep Oakland County titles
Clarkston girls, St. Mary’s boys earn runner-up slots BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.Stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans WATERFORD — Behind a mission to be one of the best track and field teams every assembled in Michigan history, Oak Park put on a clinic Friday night at the 56th Annual Oakland County Championships. The Knights easily defended […]
TRACK: Mott, Clarkston track down regional titles
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Finally, the stars aligned just right Friday for Waterford Mott. The Corsairs put on a display of speed and endurance to round up 88 points to win its first Division 1 boys track and field regional title in school history. Waterford Kettering had its […]
TRACK: Mott, Clarkston track down regional titles
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Finally, the stars aligned just right Friday for Waterford Mott. The Corsairs put on a display of speed and endurance to round up 88 points to win its first Division 1 boys track and field regional title in school history. Waterford Kettering […]
TRACK: OAA White Division Championships Results
Boys Track OAA WHITE DIVISON CHAMPIONSHIPS (May 7 at Bloomfield Hills H.S.) TEAM SCORES — 1. Birmingham Groves, 118; 2. Auburn Hills Avondale, 112; 3. Birmingham Seaholm, 90; 4. West Bloomfield, 74; 5. Farmington, 64; 6. Bloomfield Hills, 62; 7. Royal Oak, 56; 8. Pontiac, 39. NORTH POD DUAL MEETS — 1. Auburn Hills Avondale […]
TRACK: OAA Red Division Championships Results
Boys Track OAA RED DIVISON CHAMPIONSHIPS (May 8 at Oxford H.S.) TEAM SCORES — 1. Lake Orion, 122; 2. Oxford, 106; 3. Rochester Stoney Creek, 84; 4. Rochester Adams, 81; 5. Clarkston, 71; 6. Rochester, 54; 7. Troy Athens, 50; 8. Troy, 15. NORTH POD DUAL MEETS — 1. Lake Orion (3-0-0); 2. Clarkston (2-1-0); […]
TRACK: Winner take all approach at OAA championships
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans OXFORD — A change in format has placed a little more emphasis on this year’s Oakland Activities Association track and field league meets. The winner will truly take home all. Although teams still compete in dual meets, each of the three OAA divisions — down from four […]
SOFTBALL STATE RANKINGS — May 4
Softball (By the coaches association) Division 1 — 1. Portage Central; 2. Farmington Hills Mercy; 3. Caledonia; 4. Hudsonville; 5. Clarkston; 6. Romeo; 7. Lake Orion; 8. Lakeland; 9. Monroe; 10. Utica Ford Honorable mention — Bay City Western, Belleville, Flint Kearsley, Grosse Pointe South, Hartland, Holt, Howell, Macomb Dakota, Marquette, Mattawan, Midland, Plymouth, Southgate […]
GIRLS TENNIS RANKINGS — May 4
Girls Tennis (By the coaches association) Division 1 — 1. Northville; 2. Midland Dow; 3. Grosse Pointe South; 4. Traverse City Central; 5. Ann Arbor Pioneer; 6. Bloomfield Hills; 7. Troy; 8. Ann Arbor Skyline; 9. (tie) West Bloomfield, Hudsonville, Rockford, Ann Arbor Huron Division 2 — 1. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern; 2. (tie) […]
Baseball State Rankings — May 5
Baseball (By the coaches association) Division 1 — 1. Bay City Western; 2. Saline; 3. Battle Creek Lakeview; 4. Sterling Heights Stevenson; 5. Grosse Pointe North; 6. Woodhaven; 7. Northville; 8. Birmingham Brother Rice; 9. Taylor Kennedy; 10. Portage Northern; 11. Brighton; 12. Rockford Division 2 — 1. East Grand Rapids; 2. Pontiac Notre Dame […]
Girls Soccer Rankings — May 5
Girls Soccer (By the coaches association) Division 1 — Grandville; 2. Walled Lake Northern; 3. Rochester Stoney Creek; 4. Utica Eisenhower; 5. East Kentwood; 6. Grand Blanc; 7. Troy Athens; 8. Saline; 9. Northville; 10. Novi Honorable Mention — Hartland, Rochester Adams, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Forest Hills Central, Caledonia Division 2 — Birmingham Marian […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Morenci holds off Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes to reach ‘D’ state finals
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.Stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFams EAST LANSING — Nick Robak was placed in a difficult predicament Thursday night. Convert three free throws with 0.6 seconds left on the clock to earn overtime or see a brilliant boys basketball season come to an end. The 6-foot-3 senior made his first two foul shots, […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Final ‘Breslin’ation: Waterford Our Lady overcomes poor shooting to reach state semifinals for first time in 22 years
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans WEST BLOOMFIELD — Thing a beauty? Far from it. In fact, it was downright ugly. But every ugly duckling can produce a swan. Ditto for Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes. The unbeaten Lakers continued their vision quest for the perfect season by downing unranked Burton Genesee […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Walled Lake Central holds off Holly for first regional title since ’93
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans HOLLY — Trying to find the fine line between Walled Lake Central and Holly might be found by simply looking at the final score. A contest that saw as many twists and turns of a rocky mountain road, the Vikings edged host Holly, 73-71, in a thriller […]
GIRLS BASKETBALL: Waterford Our Lady stuns Kingston to reach Final Four
BY DAN STICKRADT SENOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoakalndsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans WATERFORD — If you would have asked Steve Robak six months ago if Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes would be in the Class D Final Four, the veteran coach would have thought you were crazy. Ask him that same question six weeks ago and he still […]
