BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans CLARKSTON — If you would have asked John Haezebrouck before the 2019 season if Clarkston Everest Collegiate would be making back-to-back Final Four runs in the near future, he might not have believed it. “I wouldn’t have believed it because we had never been that far before,” […]
The boys soccer team has boiled down to the final week with the MHSAA state semifinals up next. And there are some ultimate matchups on the docket for this Wednesday night, where all eight of the Final Four clashes will take place. Many of the Mr. Soccer and Dream Team candidates are still playing, having […]
WATERFORD — Auburn Hills Avondale opened up Division 1 state tournament play with a 3-0 sweep of Waterford Mott. The Yellowjackets posted a 25-18, 25-15, 25-16 triumph to advance to the district semifinals. Avondale will face Troy at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Mott. Emily Beckas lad Avondale with six aces. Mackenzie Down had 27 assists […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans HOLLY — Coming off back to back trips to the Class A/Division 1 Final Four, including the 2018 state championship, Lake Orion took the first step in that same direction Monday night as the state tournament kicked off across the state. The Dragons, honorable mention in the […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans SHELBY TWP. — When in doubt, Utica Eisenhower has a simple philosophy. Go to Sydney Palazzolo. The 6-foot-2 middle hitter slammed 40 kills Monday night, and was at her best in Game 1, Game 2 and the deciding Game 5 in leading the fifth-ranked Eagles to a […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans DAVISON — Midland Calvary Baptist to another took it to another level Saturday. Second-seeded Midland Calvary Baptist, led by nine senior starters playing in their final high school boys high school soccer game, took control with two second-half goals and some lockdown defense in defeating top-seeded Rochester […]
AUBURN — Bay City Western dominated form start to finish in this Division2 pre-district contest at Western’s Cornfield Stadium. Joe Wiedyk led the ground assault with 230 yards on 19 carries and scored three rushing touchdowns to lead Bay City Western. RJ Horning picked up a pair of interceptions and recovered a fumble and returned […]
CLARKSTON — It didn’t come easy, but Clarkston’s first playoff game since losing in the 2018 Division 1 state finals finally arrived Friday night and the Wolves prevailed with a 21-7 victory over visiting Oxford. Clarkston defeated Oxford 35-14 during Week 2 of the regular season. The unbeaten Wolves (7-0) tied the game on Davis […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Simply put, Rochester Hills Christian does not have a star player who plays for a high-level club and would be considered a college recruit out on the soccer pitch this season. That has not been in the cards in recent years. What the Eagles do […]
Highlanders defeat Falcons for 23rd straight time BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Ball control offense proved to be a lethal injection for Rochester Adams against rival Rochester Friday night. The result was the Highlanders defeating Rochester for the 23rd straight time in a surprising 39-7 rout of the previously-unbeaten […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans MADISON HEIGHTS — Sometimes soccer can come down to finishing opportunities. That couldn’t be any more true than for Clarkston Everest Collegiate on the soccer pitch Thursday at Madison Heights Bishop Foley Catholic. The Mountaineers only had three shots on frame against perennial state powerhouse Grosse Pointe […]
PONTIAC — Behind a dominating performance, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep capped the regular season Thursday with a quad sweep at home over Plymouth, Walled Lake Northern and Bloomfield Hills. The Irish are now 32-9-0 and enter the Division 2 postseason on a six-game streak. Notre Dame Prep opened up with a swift 25-10, 25-11 sweep […]
HOLLY — Holly continued one of its best regular seasons in school history, topping Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard 3-0. The Broncos prevailed in the three sets, 25-15, 25-22, 25-22. Nicole Jewell, Sarah Jewell and Delaney Jenkinson each had three aces to lead Holly. Jewell hammed eight kills, Paige Weeder added six kills and one aces, […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com @LocalSportsFans TROY — Quinn LeBay may have looked like a man of steal out on soccer pitch in the freezing cold. Inside, he was all butterflies. He also was the difference maker in the end for host Troy Athens. The senior midfielder calmly tucked his penalty shot into the […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans MADISON HEIGHTS — It’s not how you start, but how you finish. Clarkston Everest Collegiate is living proof to that theory. After graduating two key defensemen and starting goalkeeper from a team that finished 15-4-1 last year, the Mountaineers had to do some quick retooling of their […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans TROY — Troy Athens may not be scoring in the same ways as it did during last year’s Division 1 state championship run. The Red Hawks, nevertheless, are still scoring regardless of method and are very much alive in the 2020 postseason. Host Athens built a 2-0 […]
Competed over a 10-day period, the district rounds of the MHSAA boys soccer tournament are finally complete. There were only a couple of major upsets — Orchard Lake St. Mary’s topping Linden in the pre-districts in Division 2 was probably the biggest — and many of the teams that advanced through would be considered top […]
Cougars draw first-round bye in expanded playoff format BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Camron Burford knows he speaks for his entire football team at Rochester Stoney Creek when he says the Cougars want to cruise into some unchartered waters. So far, so good. The Cougars are doing just […]
