Tag: "OAA Red Division baseball"
BASEBALL: Lake Orion’s Josh Slayton caps fine prep career with Dream Team honors
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR Dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans Facebook: www.facebook.com/North-Oakland-Sports-439028726180861/ LAKE ORION – It seems like only yesterday to Josh Slayton when got the call up to the varsity ranks. He now departs high school with one of the highest honors for a prep baseball player in Michigan. Slayton, a recent graduate of Lake […]
BASEBALL: Oxford manages split with No. 2 Lake Orion
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans LAKE ORION — Oxford’s hitters faced one of the state’s top pitching duos Wednesday afternoon. The Wildcats amassed only three hits and struck out 26 times against the Dragons’ Josh Deeg and Brad Schaenzer over 14 innings of play. Yet, Oxford still found a way to […]
PREP BASEBALL: Stoney Creek outmuscles Clarkston in 11-1 victory
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — As the defending OAA Red Division baseball champions, Rochester Stoney Creek is trying to accomplish something this season that no other baseball team in the school’s 10-year history has done just yet: Win back-to-back league championships. So far, so good. The Cougars captured […]
Adams knocks out Lake Orion
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com LAKE ORION — After winning the OAA Red Division title last season, Rochester Adams felt the blow of graduating two-thirds of its team and playing in perhaps the state’s deepest league. Facing countless rivals throughout the season, the pain of rebuilding became even worse as the Highlanders were dealt […]
Stoney Creek last team standing in OAA-Red baseball race
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY — In the preseason, none of the coaches in the rugged OAA Red Division felt that Rochester Stoney Creek would have the lasting power to win a league championship. Now, the Cougars are the ones laughing. Stoney Creek put the finishing touches on the outright league title Wednesday, […]
Diamond patrol: Lake Orion wins 3-of-4 in 30-hour period
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY— Lake Orion was backed against the wall. Now, the Dragons have done their part. Lake Orion clinched no worse than second place in the OAA Red Division baseball race by going 3-1 in a period of around 30-hurs Friday and Saturday. The Dragons can earn a clinch of […]
Stoney Creek sweeps crucial pair from Clarkston
CLARKSTON — At the beginning of the season, few coaches mentioned that Rochester Stoney Creek would have the lasting power to contend in the OAA Red Division. The Cougars are the ones having the last laugh. Entering the week in a four-team race with Clarkston, Lake Orion and Troy Athens, the Cougars recorded two more […]
Schaenzer, Dragons drop Avondale to remain in title chase
LAKE ORION — Still in the hunt. Lake Orion kept pace atop of the OAA Red Division baseball standings with an 8-1 victory over Auburn Hills Avondale Tuesday. The Dragons (22-5, 9-3) scored three in the second, four in the third and pone more in the sixth to pull away. Avondale plated just one run […]
Avondale holds off Oxford’s late rally
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — It’s either that Auburn Hills Avondale finds close ballgames or close ballgames find Auburn Hills Avondale. Either way, the Yellowjackets were involved in a one-run affair Wednesday for the third day in a row. This time Avondale built an 8-2 lead through six innings of work […]
Up in da club: Clarkston finds the rhythm to dance past Adams
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com CLARKSTON — There’s a few traditions that have been founded in the baseball dugouts at Clarkston: Dancing and pulling pranks. The Wolves are often found dancing to the beat, multiple players in sync, between innings to songs from a multitude of decades. Players are also getting into the act […]
Rochester hands Stoney Creek first league loss
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — In the preseason, Rochester was supposed to be one of the better baseball teams in Oakland County this spring. Yet Falcons coach Eric Magiera has not always seen evidence of that on the ball diamond this season. Rochester is starting to show signs of coming to […]
Ando’s eighth-inning RBI lifts Athens past Troy
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY — Winning the OAA Red Division baseball title was the furthest thing from Hayato Ando’s mind a year ago. The Troy Athens sophomore didn’t even know it existed. Ando is from Japan, and is taking part in a one-year foreign exchange program in Troy. The Red Hawks are […]
