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Three times as nice: Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes wins third straight state title
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans EAST LANSING — Most student athletes never get a chance to play for a state championship. Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes has plaed for three straight in girls basketball — and the Lakers have won all three times. Lakes put the finishing touches on the rare […]
Back again: Our Lady of the Lakes downs St. Patrick to gain third straight finals berth
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, […]
87 years in the making: Lake Orion wins first regional title since 1925
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 […]
TEAM TRYOUTS — March, 2012
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 […]
Back in the Final Four: Lakes cruises past Michigan Lutheran Seminary to reach state semis once again
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 […]
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 […]
Oakland to host Bowling Green in CIT postseason tourney
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rochester College holds off Ave Marie to advance to USCAA national title game
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter:@LocalSportsFans UNIONTOWN, Pa. — New coach, same result. Rochester College is still a national powerhouse. Klint Pleasant-led Rochester College, the top seed in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Men’s Basketball tournament, advanced Friday morning to the championship game with a 62-57 victory over Ave Marie […]
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 […]
