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ORTONVILLE — Behind 579 total yards of offense, Ortonville Brandon displayed some firepower Friday in opening up the 2021 season with a 65-30 non-league victory over Bay City Central. The Blackhawks collected 308 yards on the ground and 271 in the air, all while racking up 42 points in the first half alone. Gino Tribuzio, […]
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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ORTONVILLE — Nothing was going to keep Ortonville Brandon from clinching the Flint Metro League Stars Division title Friday night. Absolutely nothing. The unbeaten Blackhawks captured their second league title in three years with a resounding 56-6 victory over visiting Clio, dominating all phases of the game. […]
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BY DAN STICKRADT CORRESPONDENT dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans Instagram: stickradtdan Snapchat: DanStickradt ORTONVILLE — A week after a humbling defeat by Linden, Ortonville Brandon tested it mettle and found the resolve needed to bounce back. The Blackhawks grinded out a 28-21 Flint Metro League victory Friday over rival Holly, keeping their postseason hopes alive. Brandon moved […]
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BY DAN STICKRADT CORRESPONDENT dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans Instagram: stickradtdan Snapchat: DanStickradt HOLLY — As the Flint Metro League celebrates its 50th school year of existence, arch-rivals Fenton and Holly, the only two schools to compete in the league the whole half century, celebrated another meeting on the grid-iron Friday night. And like in most recent […]
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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans FENTON — Not a drizzle, not a steady rain and certainly not Holly’s defense could stop Fenton’s high-powered offensive machine Friday night. Perhaps not even a Canadian National freight train on the nearby railroad tracks could have stopped the Tigers, either. The result was Fenton’s 54-35 Flint […]
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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.Stickradt@northoaklandsports.comt. Twitter: @LocalSportsFans HOLLY — Fenton listed a long list of realistic goals in the preseason. The Tigers attained a pair of them Friday night. Fenton shut down Holly inside its 30 yard line on three occasions, including once at the end of the first half when up by […]
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FLINT — Holly won for the third time in five starts and dominated winless Flint Kearsley in all phases Friday night in a 43-13 Flint Metro League triumph. Jake Horn finished 24-for- 34 passing for a career-high 380 yards and three touchdown passes for Holly (3-2, 3-2). Adam Tooley had five catches for 88 yards […]
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NOTE: Have photos or video of this event you would like to share with digital daily www.northoaklandsports.com?Email pertinent information to results@northoaklandsports.com or to Senior Editor Dan Stickradt at Dan.Stickradt@northoaklandsports.com BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans HOLLY — Friday marked the first time all season that all of Fenton’s front seven […]
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Who is going to win the Flint Metro League?: Clio, Fenton, Flint Kearsley, Holly, Lapeer East, Lapeer West, Linden, Ortonville Brandon, Swartz Creek [polldaddy poll=7366355]
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HOLLY— It may take a miracle, but Holly still has an outside chance of making the postseason. The Bronchos pulled even at 4-4 with a 35-27 victory over visiting Ortonville Brandon Friday night in Flint Metro League football play. Holly must defeat Lapeer East in Week 9 to go 5-4 and hope for an at-large […]
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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAPEER — Christopher Melton didn’t need several touches on the football Friday night. In fact, the Lapeer West senior only had four carries against Holly. None was bigger than the last play of the game. Melton scored on a two-year run up the middle to give […]
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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans HOLLY — The past two years, Holly had its back against the wall in terms of either making the playoffs or winning the Flint Metro League title. The Bronchos more than stepped up to the plate on both occasions. Holly captured its second straight win Friday, […]
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PREP FOOTBALL 2012 — CONFERENCE BREAKDOWNS The staff at www.northoaklandsports.com and The Real Deal sports and coupons magazine break down the local prep football conferences. OAA RED DIVISION — 1. Clarkston; 2. Lake Orion; 3. Troy; 4. Rochester; 5. Troy Athens; 6. Rochester Stoney Creek; 7. West Bloomfield; 8. Pontiac. OAA BLUE DIVISION — 1. […]
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Last season Holly ended a 59-year drought of not winning a league title by sharing the Flint Metro League title with Lapeer East. Who will emerge from the heap in 2012? [polldaddy poll=6480530]
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BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com HOLLY — The last time that Holly won a conference championship in football, Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the United State and rock era hadn’t even begun on the airways. Davey Crockett hats were more common than cell phones today and television — if you were lucky enough […]
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HOLLY— Back-to-back losses to Lapeer East and Swartz Creek may haunt Holly in the final Flint Metro League standings. But since that 0-2 start, the Bronchos have been downright scary. Holly captured its fifth straight win Friday, all league games, to move into a first place tie in the nine-school FML with Ortonville Brandon. Holly […]
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HOLLY— After dropping its first two games of the season, Holly continued to move towards the top half of the Flint Metro League and a potential playoff berth with its third straight win Friday. This time the Bronchos rolled to a 42-6 triumph over winless Clio. Austin Hopkin had 156 receiving yards on five catches […]
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ORTONVILLE — Lapeer West scored in all four quarters Friday and handed host Ortonville Brandon its first loss of the season, 27-0, in flint Metro League play. The Panthers scored seven in the first quarter and 10 in the second frame for a 17-0 halftime advantage. Lapeer West tacked on seven more in the third […]
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