BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER — Taking over the Clarkston boys cross-country program is July, Larry Adams knew his group had the talent to contend in the OAA Red Division this season. The Wolves lived up to that billing. Clarkston won both league jamborees and also claimed Thursday’s league championships meet […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Over the past couple of years, Rochester had its fair share of struggles in the goalkeeping department. That has changed this season. Behind the much-improved play of Brad Carlson and Luke Kastran, the Falcons have posted their best record in a decade and are […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — At 5-foot-8, Noah Bridgeman might have been one of the smallest players on the soccer pitch Monday night. With the way the Clarkston sophomore goalkeeper performed, he might as well have been an age-old Redwood tree hovering up near the clouds. Bridgeman stood tall […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — One player’s departure was a blessing in disguise for Dylan Brown. When Brown was a freshman at Rochester Adams, the Highlanders’ returning goalkeeper, Spencer Ward, opted to play with the Vardar Academy and not for Adams for the remainder of his high school days. […]
Lake Orion lands sixth, Clarkston seventh, Troy Athens 13th, Stoney Creek 18th BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans EAST LANSING — For Jeff Haney, it’s hard to pick just one word to describe Rochester’s girls golf season in 2016. Dominating…Perfect…Unbelievable. “Those words fit,” smiled Haney. “It was perfect the way the girls ended […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans TROY — Last year, Rochester Adams had a chance to capture the OAA Red Division title outright before a couple of late-season mishaps ended up with the Highlanders tying for the title along with Clarkston. This year there will be no more sharing. Fifth-ranked Adams made quite […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — The sign of a quality program is not always a one-year wonder highlight, but consistency over many seasons. That is exactly where Lake Orion’s girls swimming and diving program stands today after veteran coach Darin Abbasse first helped launch the program back in 1998. […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Over the past decade, Lake Orion has consistently fielded a girls volleyball team ranked inside the Class A top 20. That trend has more than continued this season. The Dragons, who finished as the runner-up to state powerhouse North Branch at the Mt. Morris […]
BY DAN STICKRADT CORRESPONDENT dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans AUBURN HILLS — Five years ago, Auburn Hills Avondale made an improbable run to its first boys soccer Division 2 state title. With a senior-heavy team ranked in the top 10 in D-2 this season, coach Doug Steinard hopes that the Yellowjackets can find the same magic as […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans MILFORD TWP. — Sitting on the sidelines all of the spring track season was a difficult task for Audrey Ladd to endure. The Birmingham Seaholm senior is making up for last time this fall. She captured her fourth win of the season Saturday at Kensington Metropark near […]
Boys Cross-Country 57TH ANNUAL OAKLAND COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS (10-8 at Kensington Metropark) TEAM SCORES — 1. Novi, 73; 2. Milford, 153; 3. Birmingham Brother Rice, 159; 4. White Lake Lakeland, 175; 5. Clarkston, 176; 6. Lake Orion, 205; 7. Novi Detroit Catholic Central, 233; 8. Walled Lake Central, 281 9. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, 291; 10. […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans WATERFORD TOWNSHIP — On a night where Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes honored its all-time greatest coach, the Lakers posted a pair of firsts in school history. Our Lady held off visiting Royal Oak Shrine Catholic, 28-20, to clinch the CHSL-Intersectional Division 2 title on a […]
Troy Athens, Rochester Stoney Creek also advance BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — For a program that has finished in the top 10 at the Division 1 state finals 15 times in 20 years, Rochester’s girls golf team outdid even itself Wednesday on the links of Twin Lakes Golf Course. […]
DIVISION 1 REGION 7 TOURNAMENT (10-6 at Clarkston H.S.) TEAM SCORES — 1. Bloomfield Hills, 31; 2. Clarkston, 22; 3. Rochester Adams, 17; 4. Rochester, 10; 5. Lake Orion, 9; 6. Rochester Stoney Creek, 5; 7. Oxford, 2; 8. (tie) Waterford Kettering, 0; Waterford Mott, 0. CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHTS SINGES — 1. Josh Mukherjee (Bloomfield Hills) […]
DIVISION 1 REGIONAL NO. 5 (10-6 at Westwynd Country Club, par 72) TEAM SCORES — 1. Lake Orion, 344; 2. Bloomfield Hills, 353; 3. Clarkston, 367; 4. Rochester Adams, 404; 5. North Farmington, 410; 6. Oxford, 425; 7. White Lake Lakeland, 443; 8. Walled Lake Central, 468; 9. Walled Lake Northern, 491; 10. Waterford Kettering, […]
OAKLAND COUNTY GIRLS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (Oct. 1 at Lake Orion H.S.) TEAM SCORES — 1. Farmington Hills Mercy, 376; 2. Birmingham Marian, 289.5; 3. White Lake Lakeland, 207; 4. South Lyon Unified, 184; 5. Rochester Adams, 181; 6. Birmingham Seaholm, 162; 7. Lake Orion, 138; 8. Farmington/Harrison Unified, 119; 9. Birmingham Groves, 112.5; 10. North […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans FENTON — Not a drizzle, not a steady rain and certainly not Holly’s defense could stop Fenton’s high-powered offensive machine Friday night. Perhaps not even a Canadian National freight train on the nearby railroad tracks could have stopped the Tigers, either. The result was Fenton’s 54-35 Flint […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest has had a difficult time this season getting out of the gate in a hurry. That problem was definitely remedied against rival Auburn Hills Oakland Christian. The Crusaders opened with a 12-0 lead and cruised to a 32-7 triumph […]
