Tag: "High School Soccer"
BOYS SOCCER: Rochester rallies past Clarkston to claim second straight district title
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans Instagram: stickradtdan Snapchat: Dan.Stickradt ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester’s boys soccer team is very thankful these days that it has a three-sport athlete playing in goal. Luke Kastran made a difference Friday night for the Division 1 10th-ranked Falcons. Host Rochester tested its mettle and rallied past Clarkston, […]
BOYS SOCCER: Adams advances to Elite Eight with win over Bloomfield Hills
BY DAN STICKRADT CORRESPONDENT dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans FRASER — Experience is an ingredient that one cannot teach in practice. It’s also one of the true strengths for Rochester Adams on the soccer pitch this season. The Highlanders, a senior-laden team, kept their postseason hopes alive Wednesday, topping short-handed and unranked Bloomfield Hills, 1-0, in […]
SATURDAY’S BOYS SOCCER: Athens, Lutheran Northwest record wins
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. […]
GIRLS SOCCER: Lakes-Everest upends Bishop Foley to reach second state finals in three years
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans PONTIAC — While Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes-Clarkston Everest Collegiate Unified might have one of the state’s longest names for a high school athletics program in the state of Michigan, the Lakers do have one of the shortest time periods for its girls soccer team. […]
GIRLS SOCCER DISTRICTS: Stoney Creek perseveres to oust Utica
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans UTICA — This match had trap game written all over it. Coming off a 3-2, double-overtime victory over third-ranked Utica Eisenhower on Tuesday, Rochester Stoney Creek found the terrain a little rough Thursday night in a Division 1 girls soccer district semifinal at Utica’s Swinehart Field. […]
WEDNESDAY’S GIRLS SOCCER: Troy edges Lapeer West
TROY — For the first time this season, Troy gave up a goal. The Colts still had enough offensive firepower to post an 2-1 non-league girls soccer victory over visiting Lapeer West. Samantha Chouinard converted a cross from Savannah King to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead. Top-ranked Troy tied the contest later in the […]
Avondale blanks Fenton to advance to district finals
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com BLOOMFIELD HILLS — For years Auburn Hills Avondale has fielded some very competitive soccer teams. Competing in some tough districts, the Yellowjackets have not had many chances to showcase that talent beyond the district level. Avondale took another step in that direction Thursday night. The Yellowjackets scored an early […]
Troy dominates Lake Orion for fifth straight win
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net TROY — Troy coach Brian Zawislak decided to dial up the pressure in the Troy-Lake Orion soccer game Tuesday. The Dragons, like every other opponent who has been suffocated by the Colts’ tenacious attack, folded. Juniors Aaron Faison and Luke Ridenour each put in their first goals of the […]
Troy Bethany gives Lutheran Northwest the boot
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY — Troy Bethany Christian is in the midst of upgrading its non-conference schedule in boys soccer. That has not deterred the Bruins from finding ways to win this season. Bethany Christian paid host to defending MIAC Red Division champion Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest Tuesday and walked off the […]
Adams rallies past Rochester
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester and Rochester Stoney Creek appeared to be near images of one another on the soccer pitch Thursday evening. The one difference was Dylan Knott. The senior midfielder from Rochester Adams scored a goal and assisted on two others in leading the Highlanders to a come-from-behind, […]
FLASHBACK: Exit Stage Left: Storch ready to sail into the sunset
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com (Editor’s Note: This is a republish from a story that originally ran on June 5 but was inadvertently removed from the archives.) TROY — Tim Storch remembers when he was first pushed towards being a goalkeeper. A student at Birmingham Groves High School in the mid-1970s, the hockey and […]
Veteran Soccer icon Storch to call it a career at Troy Athens
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY — Ending weeks of speculation, Tim Storch, the only head soccer coach that Troy Athens has never known, has announced that the 2011 girls season will be his last. Storch, who came to Athens in 1981 and began the varsity boys soccer program there that August, and the […]
