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Quick strikes lead Troy past Athens in OAA-Red opener
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans TROY — In its season opener last season, Troy defeated Troy Athens on the soccer pitch in a game that featured two legitimate state title contenders. In that game, the Colts scored three goals with in a 15-minute span. Athens, however, did not lose another league […]
L’Anse Creuse North knocks down Lake Orion to reach Final Four
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans DETROIT — With neither team being ranked in the top 20 entering the postseason, Macomb L’Anse Creuse North boys basketball coach was asked Tuesday night if his Crusaders or Lake Orion were Cinderella stories. Don’t tell that to L’Anse Creuse North. The Crusaders have now extended […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AOTW: Taylor-made: Rochester senior Taylor Perry helping Falcons back to prominence
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Every time Taylor Perry walks into the gymnasium at Rochester High, he’s given a brief history lesson. The standout basketball player can plainly see the school’s championships over nearly 100 years of high school basketball. But there is something unsettling about those banners on the […]
GIRLS BASKETBALL: Kettering shuts of Stoney Creek for regional crown
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com LAKE ORION — Scott Woodhull has plenty of memories of Waterford Kettering making a long postseason run. The veteran Waterford Kettering girls basketball coach was on the sidelines when the Captains last made the Class A Final Four in 2000. Now in his second stint with the Captains, […]
Rochester survives Adams in double overtime
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Adams erected a huge game plan for Wednesday evening: Stop Rochester’s dynamite duo of Taylor Perry and Paris Periera and make some other players beat the Highlanders. Adams did halt the Falcons’ standout pair, but finally succumbed in the end to Rochester. The Falcons […]
Port Huron Northern freezes Cougars in their tracks, advance to Final Four
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com MACOMB TOWNSHIP — In a year where there has been an unusually high number of state-ranked boys hockey teams falling in the earlier rounds, Port Huron Northern has done nothing but back up its top-10 status in the postseason. The Huskies (17-9-1), ranked third in the state heading […]
Welcome to the machine: Fine-tuned Athens dispatches Avondale
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY — The recent return of Marcarius Coakley has given Troy Athens a facelift. With their entire lineup back and the Red Hawks clicking on all cylinders, Athens was a fine-tuned machine Monday in the opening round of the Class A boys basketball state tournament. The Red Hawks […]
AOTW: Oakland’s Hamilton putting up big numbers to keep Oakland relevant
DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Four years ago, Reggie Hamilton was faced with a dilemma. His playing time had dwindled and he was benched for a few games without notification of the specifics. Hamilton, then a sophomore at UMKC, asked for his release from the school and it was granted short […]
Cut ‘em down: Stoney Creek celebrates first basketball district championship
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester accomplished a feat that no other team has been able to do in the past four years: Keep Rochester Stoney Creek’s Gabby Yurik from reaching the scoring column. Stoney Creed was still able to accomplish something Friday that no other boys basketball or […]
AOTW: Dubay is Rochester Hills Christian’s three-sport sparkplug
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Allise Dubay had a decision to make four years ago. Stay at a small school and play three sports or go to a large high school and probably play just one sport. She chose the small-school route and has never regretted it. Dubay is now a […]
