BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. — Even with a tradition rich pool of prep football programs in the region, last season was an anomaly in terms of postseason success. Although 10 local schools — Auburn Hills Avondale, Clarkston, Holly, Lake Orion, Ortonville Brandon, Oxford, Pontiac, Pontiac Notre Dame […]
CLEVELAND — It was a year ago when Cleveland Villa Angela St. Joesph clobbered Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes 41-14 in a prep football season opener. Fast forward to Saturday and the Lakers gained their sweet revenge. WOLL recorded a lopsided 42-6 win over the host Eagles at Euclid (Ohio) High School. The Lakers […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Stoney Creek and Royal both finished 1-8 on the gridiron last fall. Both entered the 2012 season with new coaching staffs. That is about the only thing the two programs have in common. Stoney Creek showed that it was much further along […]
TROY— Max Klitzke scored a goal and an assists, as Troy Athens toppled Livonia Stevenson for the third time in two seasons Saturday in a non-league boys soccer match, 3-0. Luis Ayala added a goal and an assists and Bryan Lawson also scored for the Red Hawks (2-10). Brett Schmitz recorded the shutout in goal. […]
HAMTRAMCK — Auburn hills Oakland Christian learned Friday that it would win its season-opening game via forfeit. The Lancers were slated to play at Hamtramck Friday night but were given notice that Hamtramck would not have enough players available for the contest due to disciplinary reasons of a large group of players. Officially, the MHSAA […]
THROUGH THE CAMARA EYE — SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY INDEX / www.northoaklandsports.com Below is a list of local independent photographers and videographers from the area that will be taking digital action photos or video of sports events and that have donated courtesy photos and video clips to digital daily www.northoaklandsports.com. Please visit their websites or […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Oxford accomplished something against Lake Orion that few teams have been able to accomplish in recent years: Keep the Dragons off the scoreboard during the first half. That effort simply awoke a sleeping giant. Lake Orion scored 17 unanswered, second-half points in topping […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans OXFORD — Bud Rowley gets asked a lot of questions these days. Who is going to replace Mr. Football Prescott Line and towering lineman Collin Goetz, who plowed room for Line using his 6-foot-7, 260-pound frame last season? Those are just two routine questions he hears all […]
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net TROY — Romeo had scored on two straight drives and was moving at will toward a game-winning touchdown. Someone had to make a play for Troy. Out of nowhere, it was junior safety Danny Wunderlich, who jumped into the dark August sky and plucked the ball out […]
BLOOMFIELD HILLS — In a rematch of last November’s Division 2 state semifinal, Auburn Hills Avondale was able to get the best of Bloomfield hills Andover once again, blanking the Barons, 2-0. Skyler Russ and Erik Koberstein both scored goals in the first half and Ben Richter made it stand with two saves for Avondale […]
ALMONT — Taylor Timko is a Division I commit. The Pontiac Notre Dame Prep junior sent an oral to the University of Michigan to play soccer last winter, halfway through her sophomore year. Now a rare female kicker on the Fighting Irish football team, Timko, an All-State First Team Division 3 selection in soccer, drilled […]
PREP SCOREBOARD Boys Tennis ROCHESTER ADAMS 7, TROY ATHENS 2 SINGLES — 1. Justin Hyman (RA) d. Richard Zhang 7-6 (5), 1-0 (Ret); 2. Charles Xu (RA) d. Eric Flewelling 6-4, 7-6 (5); 3. Rahul Jain (RA) d. Jason Potter 7-6 (5) 6-1; 4. Eric Chang (RA) d. Sheevan Naik 7-5 6-0 DOUBLES — […]
BY VIC FOURNIER CORRESPONDENT ROCHESTER HILLS — For decades Rochester and Utica were arch-rivals. The two neighboring schools competed in the same conferences from the 1920s and up into the 1970s. With leagues changing in the disco era, the two rivals went their separate ways and despite being only seven miles apart, did not face […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans AUBURN HILLS — Perfectly coined, Auburn Hills Avondale’s new student section is nicknamed “Rumble Bees: We Bring The Sting.” It’s a theme the Yellowjackets hope to ride the coattails to the OAA Blue Division championship and a third straight postseason berth this season. Avondale took the […]
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A look historically at the prep football programs from the www.northoaklandsports.com coverage area in the MHSAA state tournament. STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS: Lake Orion – 2010 (Division 1) Oxford – 1992 (Class BB) Rochester Adams – 2003 (Division 2) Troy – 1994 (Class AA) Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes – 2002 (Division 8) STATE RUNNER-UP […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans CLARKSTON — One look at the size of his lineman and it does not take Kurt Richardson very long to give his opinion. “We are big, very big,” said the veteran Richardson, who is now in his 26th season at the helm of Clarkston’s football program. “This […]
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans PONTIAC — Two years ago Pontiac Notre Dame was in a rut. The Fighting Irish opened the 2010 season with five straight losses. Notre Dame Prep found a way to reverse that trend and did not lose again until the district finals in 2011. The […]
