Tag: "OAA Boys Basketball"
BOYS BASKETBALL: Stoney Creek staves off Rochester Adams
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Playing in three games already this season where the final score was three points or less proved to pay dividends Friday night for Rochester Stoney Creek. The Cougars staved off rival Rochester Adams, 46-43, in an OAA crossover contest to snap a two-game skid. […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Adams remains perfect in downing pesky Rochester
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — As part of its 8-0 start, Rochester Adams has found different ways to win ball games this winter. On Friday against arch-rival Rochester, the Highlanders went to its inside-outside game to tame the Falcons, 57-45, in the 10th annual Crosstown Showdown at Oakland University’s […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Stoney Creek steals one away from Troy
BY DAN STICKRADT CORRESPONDENT dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Perhaps Rochester Stoney Creek really did become the Grinch of this Christmas season on Tuesday night. The Cougars clawed back from a 14-point, third-quarter deficit to sink Troy in overtime, 62-59, in an OAA crossover contest. “I think we did steal one,” smiled Stoney Creek […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Clarkston shuts off Lake Orion
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 FOR MORE BASKETBALL COVERAGE: http://northoaklandsports.com/?s=Basketball&x=13&y=12 BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans CLARKSTON — Having to play three games in a matter of five […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Williams nets 46 as Adams stymies Stoney Creek
ROCHESTER HILLS — Last week Rochester Adams suffered its first regular season loss since February of 2012, nearly two full years. On Tuesday night, Akhemji Williams made sure that losing would not become a habit. The highly-touted senior point guard from Rochester Adams scored a game-high 46 points, which shattered the existing school record, to […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Lake Orion rallies past rival Oxford
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 FOR MORE BASKETBALL COVERAGE: http://northoaklandsports.com/?s=Basketball&x=13&y=12 BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Baby steps. They are a vital […]
TUESDAY’S BOYS BASKETBALL: Rochester Hills’ Hatcher scores 50 in rout; Brandon clips Lapeer East; Everest collegiate clinches league title
ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Hills Christian put the finishing touches on an unbeaten FBAC season Tuesday, routing Davison Faith Baptist.It was aided by a record-setting performance by junior guard Marquez Hatcher. The 5-foot-10 Hatcher scored a career-high 50 points to lead the Eagles to a convincing 87-53 victory over the visitors. Hatcher shot 75 percent […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Unbeaten Rochester Hills Christian soars to third straight FBAC title; Adams down Pontiac to remain perfect; Everest rolls
ROCHESTER HILLS — Each of the past two years, Rochester Hills Christian shared the Fundamental Baptist Athletic conference Red Division boys basketball title with Troy Bethany Christian. Both teams finished 7-1 in conference play during those campaigns. Not this time. Rochester Hills proved that there would be no sharing this season by thumping visiting Troy […]
ON THE RISE … Mr. Basketball candidate James Young takes attention in stride
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — James Young heard that there would be some major changes, a fresh start, in his life this past summer. Already a focal point in the college basketball recruiting scene as a top-10 recruit, Young was told by his mother, Tiplance Vernon, that she […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Troy Athens soars past Ferndale; Swartz Creek rolls Ortonville Brandon; Stoney Creek edges Oxford in OT
Twitter @LocalSportsFans FERNDALE — Behind four players in double figures Tuesday, Troy Athens earned a 86-65 OAA crossover boys basketball victory Tuesday over Ferndale Mike Williams twined 25 points to lead Athens. Tim Shayoka added 20 points and 11 rebounds, Devin Terry added 15 points and 10 assists and John Van Hoef contributed 14 points […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Adams shuts down Clarkston in battle of unbeatens
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans CLARKSTON — When shots are not falling with regularity, good teams will look to defense end to offset its offensive woes. Rochester Adams truly went to the defensive end Tuesday night. The visiting Highlanders forced 17 turnovers and held Clarkston to 26.5 percent shooting (14-for-53) in […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Athens beats Troy for second straight year, 56-55
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net TROY — The buzzer sounded. Troy Athens’ student section emptied out onto the court. Troy’s? Well, all it could do was chant, “Let’s Play Football.” Troy fell behind in the third quarter and never took the lead back, falling to rival Athens in its season opener Friday night, 56-55. […]
Troy knocked out via Waterford Mott’s upset punch
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net TROY — Troy’s boys basketball team was about to reach the point that good teams often hit where they know they can’t lose. But upstart Waterford Mott, the most unlikely dealer of the knockout punches, threw the Colts’ season into a tough combination of sorrow and frustration. The […]
Fenton snaps Clarkston’s district streak at 19 straight titles, 47 consecutive district wins
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans SWARTZ CREEK — In 1993, Clarkston lost in a boys basketball Class A district semifinal to Romeo, 67-52. At the time, the result didn’t seem to add up to much. The Wolves went on to post one of the longest streaks in the state of Michigan […]
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 […]
Lake Orion holds off Oxford for district win
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — One long drought will end Friday night. Lake Orion, which has not won a district championship in boys basketball since 1984, will play for a district championship thanks to a 64-57 victory Wednesday over rival Oxford in a Class A district semifinal at Rochester Adams. […]
BOYS BASKETBALL: Clarkston thumps Holly, 73-19; Fenton knocks out Brandon
SWARTZ CREEK — Clarkston has heard the verbal abuse this season that its size, or lack thereof, will eventually cost the Wolves. Clarkston has time and time again silenced its critics. With one of its smallest teams height-wise since the mid-1990s, the Wolves used their superior guard play to thump Holly, a team with much […]
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 […]
