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FLASHBACK: 2009 All-Area Boys Tennis: Powerful hitters ace positions on tennis squad
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com The pipeline of talented tennis players continued again in the area this season. While a cast of stars departed in the spring, several returnees and newcomers from a variety of schools moved into or up the lineup this season and enjoyed tremendous success. Among the eight local teams in […]
2010 ALL-AREA BOYS TENNIS TEAM: This unit could surely swat away the opposition
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Talented tennis players and Oakland County simply go hand-in-hand. Pick your point in the county, and the compass will point towards several quality teams and players. Even in the coverage area for www.northoaklandsports.com, there was no shortage of talent. Two local teams finished well inside the top-10 at the […]
FLASHBACK: 2009 All-Area Girls Cross-Country Team: All-American Goethals leads talented All-Area pack of runners
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Over the past decade, female cross-country runners from Oakland County have dominated the scene, with dozens of all-state runners and even a handful of state champions. That continued to be the trend in 2009. This season marked yet another fine season for runners in the area, especially for the […]
Flashback: 2009 All-Area Girls Golf Team
Super Team players highlight All-Area Girls Golf squad BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com To say that Oakland County is a hotbed for girls golf talent might be an understatement. The number of all-state players and state-qualifying teams is high each and every year during the past decade and that could very well continue in […]
2010 All-AREA GIRLS GOLF TEAM: These linkers are driven by success
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Is the Rochester area really the epicenter for girls golf in Michigan. Well, there’s a growing trend in recent years about the city producing some fine golf talent. For the fifth straight season a Rochester team finished first or second at the Division 1 state tournament, while the past […]
Rochester wrestlers looking for for first long tournament trip
BY AARON KUHN STUDENT CORRESPONDENT aaronkuhn14@yahoo.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Senior Jameson Joyce sizes up his opponent, trying to figure out how to get a pin, and a victory for the wrestling team. Then, after contemplating his next move, he goes in for a shot, an attack on the legs just as his opponent sprawls, pulling […]
Call her Miss … Golf: Stoney Creek’s Compton school’s first state Player of the Year
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Devon Compton has had a lot of firsts in her golf career. There’s one that will live in infamy at Rochester Stoney Creek. Compton was honored Sunday as the 2010 recipient of Miss Golf by the Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association, becoming the first Stoney Creek […]
Cunningham, Stanko earn Dream Team status
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Sean Cunningham and Caleb Stanko entered the 2010 boys soccer season as two of the state’s best. The Oakland county duo were acknowledged for just that recently by the Michigan High School Soccer Coaches Association. Both were named to the 11-member All-State Dream Team by the MHSSCA earlier this […]
Losee earns Top Drawer Soccer All-Rookie honors
EVANSTON, Ill. – Reed Losee was an All-State Dream Team soccer player coming out of Lake Orion High School. Now, he has continued to live up to that level. Losee and Northwestern teammate Lepe Seetane (Lesotho, Africa/Trinity (Louisville, Ky.) have been named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com All-Rookie Second Team following their outstanding freshman seasons. Losee plays […]
Back on a mission: U-M senior, Rochester grad Tennant comes back to aid Wolverines in NCAA tourney
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ANN ARBOR — There was a time where Chase Tennant had little contact with the outside world. No cell phone. No Facebook. No TV or E-mail. No Soccer, or at least not much time to work on the game he loves. Tennant, who part of the Church of Jesus […]
OU baseball signs seven highlighted by Under Armour All-American Janisse
ROCHESTER HILLS – Seven players have signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Oakland University baseball team in the 2012 season, head coach John Musachio announced on Tuesday. The group of incoming players is highlighted by Under Armour High School All-American Skylar Janisse and includes five freshmen and two junior college transfers. “I […]
AOTW: Terror in the trenches: Lake Orion’s McGhee is a mauler on the offensive line
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com LAKE ORION — When a football team scores a touchdown, or the offense makes a big play, how often does the public address announcer make a mention to the offensive line? While the credit often goes to the running back, quarterback or receiver, and sometimes the holder or placekicker […]
Givens a proven winner at all levels of soccer
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com EAST LANSING — When Colin Givens was a freshman at Troy High School in the fall of 2003, he only scored a small handful of goals for the Colts’ soccer team. And they were memorable. “I think I only scored three goals that year,” recalled Givens. “I do remember […]
Key ingredient: Heins has helped stir up recipe for success at Lutheran Northwest
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — When Joe Heins first entered Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest, he was just hoping to make the Crusaders’ soccer team. Now, he has been a key cog in the revival of the Northwest program. Heins, a versatile senior who has played multiple positions in his career, is […]
Troy’s Cunningham signs with Michigan
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net TROY — Troy senior Sean Cunningham has bobbed and weaved through opposing defenders on the high school and club field for years. Soon, he’ll be off to Ann Arbor to play Big Ten soccer at the University of Michigan. He signed this past week during the NCAA early signing […]
Tall and Proud: Yellowjackets enjoying first district title despite season of mishaps
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com AUBURN HILLS — Looking over the balcony at her volleyball team, Valerie Blanchette shouts the phrase “T.P.” The encouraging words stand for Tall and Proud, and are reminder to shrug off the play, stand back up and try again. That’s what the volleyball team at Auburn Hills Avondale has […]
Sizzling finishes: Handler leads state-meet performances
BY JAY KUNDE CORRESPONDANT BROOKLYN — Something about close finishes and Brook Handler seem to go hand in hand. The last time Handler, now a senior at Rochester High, was involved in a close finish, it came in the final 100 meters of the 3,200-meter relay at Rockford High School, site of the Division 1 […]
Top cat: Stoney Creek golfers seeking state title
Being tabbed as a favorite is one thing, while living up to those expectations is another.. Rochester Stoney Creek took over the No. 1 slot in the girls golf Division 1 rankings in late August. Since then, the Cougars have lived up to their billing despite playing with a target on their back for a […]
