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2012 ALL-STATE BOYS HOCKEY

2012 ALL-STATE BOYS HOCKEY

March 16, 2012 | Comments (2)

Boys Hockey   2012 MICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY COACHES ASSOCIATION ALL-STATE TEAM   DIVISION 1   FIRST TEAM Forwards Michael Babcock, Novi Detroit Catholic Central Collin Finkhouse, Lowell Charlie Green, Novi Detroit Catholic Central Peter Halash, Novi Detroit Catholic Central Curtis Herzog, Novi Tommy Kivisto, Brighton J.P. Lucchese, Grosse Pointe North Mark McGee, Plymouth Salem […]

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Associated Press Girls Basketball Class B All-State Team

Associated Press Girls Basketball Class B All-State Team

March 16, 2012 | Comments (4)

ASSOCIATED PRESS GIRLS BASKETBALL CLASS B ALL-STATE TEAM CLASS B ALL-STATE FIRST TEAM Player of the Year:  Aerial Powers, Birmingham Detroit Country Day, 5-11, Sr. Amber Deane, Birmingham Detroit Country Day, 5-9, Sr. Brittany Streetman, Warren Lincoln, 5-7, Sr. Kiara Kudron, New Boston Huron, 6-2, Sr. Rosanna Reynolds, Dearborn Divine Child, 5-9, Sr. Tori Jankoska, […]

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Michigan Association of Christian Schools All-State Girls Basketball

Michigan Association of Christian Schools All-State Girls Basketball

March 16, 2012 | Comments (4)

MACS ALL-STATE BASKETBALL   Below are the 2011-12 Michigan Association of Christian Schools All-State boys basketball and girls basketball teams, as selected by coaches of member schools. Corrections and additions of player’s height, grade and position can be submitted to dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com   GIRLS BASKETBALL DIVISION I DIVISION I FIRST TEAM Emily Hinsenkamp   Clinton Twp. Faith […]

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Associated Press Girls Basketball Class A All-State Team

Associated Press Girls Basketball Class A All-State Team

March 16, 2012 | Comments (6)

ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL-STATE GIRLS BASKETBALL CLASS A ALL-STATE FIRST TEAM   Player of the Year: Caprice Dennis, Detroit Pershing, 5-9, Sr., Branndais Agee, Detroit Cass Tech, 5-11, Sr. Kelsey Mitchell, Inkster, 6-1, Sr. Raven Bankston, Detroit Mumford, 6-7, Jr. Marie Gaedke, Dearborn Edsel Ford, 5-10, Sr. Elena Popkey, Warren Cousino, 5-7, Sr. Gabby Yurik, Stoney […]

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Associated Press Girls Basketball Class D All-State Team

Associated Press Girls Basketball Class D All-State Team

March 15, 2012 | Comments (3)

Associated Press Girls Basketball Class D All-State Team CLASS D ALL-STATE FIRST TEAM Sarah Theut, Marine City Cardinal Mooney, 5-10, Sr., Player of the Year Carlee Cottrell, Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes, 5-9, Sr. Lexie Robak, Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes, 5-9, Jr. Sara Hansen, Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart, 5-6, So. Lexi Gussert, […]

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Back again: Our Lady of the Lakes downs St. Patrick to gain third straight finals berth

Back again: Our Lady of the Lakes downs St. Patrick to gain third straight finals berth

March 15, 2012 | Comments (5)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans   EAST LANSING — Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes received a scare Thursday evening. Yet it was the Lakers’ defensive schemes that proved to be the fright of the night. Locked in a three-point game with7:17 to go, the seventh-ranked Lakes went on a 13-0 run, […]

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87 years in the making: Lake Orion wins first regional title since 1925

87 years in the making: Lake Orion wins first regional title since 1925

March 15, 2012 | Comments (8)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter:@LocalSportsFans   LAKE ORION — Just a few short weeks ago, Tom Risi wrote a brief challenge up on the board in the team meeting room for his players to see. Perhaps his players took the message to heart. Risi, Lake Orion’s first-year boys basketball coach, told his team […]

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TEAM TRYOUTS — March, 2012

TEAM TRYOUTS — March, 2012

March 14, 2012 | Comments (1)

TEAM TRYOUTS GREG GRANT BASKETBALL CLUB There will be an open tryout for ninth grade girls interested in laying with the Greg Grant Basketball Club two AAU teams. There will be an open gym workout on March 1 0 from 2-4 p.m. at Oakland Christian High School in Auburn Hills, 3075 Shimmons. Cost is $5 […]

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Back in the Final Four: Lakes cruises past Michigan Lutheran Seminary to reach state semis once again

Back in the Final Four: Lakes cruises past Michigan Lutheran Seminary to reach state semis once again

March 13, 2012 | Comments (7)

BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter:@LocalSportsFans   WATERFORD — As the two-time defending state champions in Class D, Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes’ girls basketball has played with a chip on its shoulder all season. Despite a tough schedule, the Lakers have were only able to finish seventh in the final Associated Press […]

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Southfield Christian suffocates Everest Collegiate

Southfield Christian suffocates Everest Collegiate

March 13, 2012 | Comments (6)

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 […]

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Dragons mount big comeback to advance to Sweet 16

Dragons mount big comeback to advance to Sweet 16

March 13, 2012 | Comments (7)

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 […]

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The journey: Everest Collegiate responds to baptism under fire with fine third season

The journey: Everest Collegiate responds to baptism under fire with fine third season

March 12, 2012 | Comments (6)

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 […]

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Oakwood stuns Rochester College for USCAA national title

Oakwood stuns Rochester College for USCAA national title

March 12, 2012 | Comments (4)

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 […]

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Oakland to host Bowling Green in CIT postseason tourney

Oakland to host Bowling Green in CIT postseason tourney

March 12, 2012 | Comments (1)

ROCHESTER HILLS – The Oakland men’s basketball team will host Bowling Green State University on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. inside the Athletics Center O’rena for the opening round game of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, announced by CollegeInsider.com on Sunday night.   The Golden Grizzlies are appearing in the postseason for the fourth consecutive year. […]

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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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