Tag: "OAA Red Division Boys Soccer"
TUESDAY’S BOYS SOCCER: Stoney Creek blanks Troy; Berkley edges Adams
ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Stoney Creek scored a pair of second half goals to upend Troy 2-0 in an OAA Red Division boys soccer match Tuesday. The win helped the Cougars clinch third place in the OAA-Red with 12 points. Adam Anderson scored off an assist from Scott Alampi, while Alampi notched an insurance tally [...]
BOYS SOCCER: Rochester gains revenge on Adams
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — It’s hard to even fathom that a Rochester-Rochester Adams boys soccer match not having much meaning on the big scale. With the OAA Red Division title already decided last week — Troy Athens clinched the title — there was no league glory on [...]
BOYS SOCCER: Stoney Creek records first-ever win over rival Rochester Adams
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Billy Kobus scored a goal and drew an assist on Thursday night. The junior from Rochester Stoney Creek also helped the Cougars record some long overdue school history. Kobus’ game-winner midway through the second half helped Stoney Creek defeat Rochester Adams, 2-1, in [...]
BOYS SOCCER: Athens blanks shorthanded Troy
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net TROY — Right after Troy goalie Ben Holland’s red card took him out of the game, the Colts needed someone to step up. Immediately, it was sophomore center back Adam Zaretti who told coach Brian Zawislak he could take the net. But in the end, that effort was [...]
BOYS SOCCER: Adams gains much-needed win over Rochester
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Fielding a young team, wins have been hard to come by this season for Rochester Adams on the soccer pitch. The Highlanders gained an important win over one of its rivals Thursday to ease the pain of a uncharacteristic slow start. The Highlanders [...]
BOYS SOCCER: Short-handed Rochester scores late to hand Troy first loss
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net ROCHESTER HILLS — Troy’s boys soccer team got stung in the offseason when four players decided to play for their club team this fall instead of the Colts. Fortunately for Rochester, its star hung around. Rochester went a man down in the 60th minute of a scoreless game, [...]
BOYS SOCCER ROUNDUP: Klitzke pushes Athens past Clarkston; Lancers outslug Southfield Christian
TROY — Max Klitke continued his offensive tear during the boys soccer season’s first month. The senior forward from Troy Athens collected two goals and an assists in the Red Hawks’ 3-0 OAA Red Division shutout of visiting Clarkston Tuesday night. Klitzke now has nine goals on the season. Tyler Gasko also scored and Marcello [...]
BOYS SOCCER: Emotion-filled Adams, Stoney Creek battle to 1-1 draw
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Whenever rivals meet, there is a pause in time where emotions can sometimes get the best of athletes. Emotions were at a high point Thursday night when Rochester Adams hosted rival Rochester Stoney Creek in an OAA Red Division boys soccer match. The [...]
BOYS SOCCER: Doepke’s PKs lift Troy over Clarkston
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net TROY — Zac Doepke let Ian Fox take Troy’s penalty kick last week at Walled Lake Northern. “I wasn’t as confident as I could have been,” Doepke said. Tuesday night, he was more confident and took the first kick. And the second? Well, then he just wanted to [...]
BOYS SOCCER: Athens, Oxford, Troy all post wins
TROY — Behind a goal in each half, Troy Athens moved to 2-0 in the OAA Red Division with a 2-0 boys soccer win Wednesday over Farmington. Marcello Mancini scored in the first half and Tyler Gasko added an insurance tally in the second half for the Red Hawks. (5-1-0, 2-0-0). Brett Schmitz recorded five [...]
BOYS SOCCER: DeFinis’ late goal lifts Clarkston past previously unbeaten Rochester
DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com Twitter: @LocalSportsFans ROCHESTER HILLS — Joey Difinis had a chance to do something his father did several times back in the 1980s: Score a goal on Rochester’s field. The only difference for the younger generation Definis is that he is a sophomore sniper on Clarkston boys soccer team. His [...]
Troy explodes early, clinches league title share with win over Lahser
BY JAKE LOURIM STUDENT CORRESPONDENT j.lourim@comcast.net BLOOMFIELD HILLS — Troy free kick specialist Zach Doepke hadn’t nailed a set piece goal in a while. Bloomfield Hills Lahser’s goalie gave him the perfect shot. Doepke was one of five different Colts to score Tuesday in a 5-2 victory over Lahser that clinched at least a share [...]
Stoney Creek finds blue collar attitude in drawing even with Adams
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Adam Bican has been working hard to infiltrate a much-needed blue collar work mentality into his Rochester Stoney Creek boys soccer team. Finally, such a work ethic is starting to appear on the pitch with the Cougars. Stoney Creek, which started the season with a losing [...]
BOYS SOCCER NOTEBOOK: Unranked Athens picking up steam
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com TROY — Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, it was hard not to picture Troy Athens as one of the state’s top teams when it comes to boys soccer. Over the past three decades, few teams have logged more weeks in the top 10 than the Red Hawks. In the [...]
BOYS SOCCER ROUNDUP: Athens cruises over Clarkston; Avondale avenges Berkley
TROY — Troy Athens built a 3-1 lead by the half and tacked on another score in the second half Thursday to claim a 4-1 OAA Red Division boys soccer victory over Clarkston. Max Klitzke scored the second and third goals for Athens (5-3-1, 3-1-0). Matt Dombrowski and Sunny Shettigar also scored for the Red [...]
Athens posts clean sheet in Heugh’s return to Rochester
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Coaching against Rochester has some special meaning for Todd Heugh — and in more ways than one. The first-year Troy Athens boys soccer coach spent six seasons on the Falcons’ sidelines coaching Rochester’s boys (2000-05), while he also coached the Falcons’ girls program for 11 seasons [...]
Adams stuns top-ranked Troy
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Rochester Adams was able to accomplish something on the soccer pitch Tuesday against Troy that no other team has been able to do against the Colts this season: Score a goal within the regular flow of a game. Previously, Troy had only given up a first-half [...]
Little settled: Rochester, Stoney Creek battle to draw
BY DAN STICKRADT SENIOR EDITOR dan.stickradt@northoaklandsports.com ROCHESTER HILLS — Recording a tie in sports against a rival is not often a welcomed commodity. In fact, it has often been considered much like kissing your sister or even as worse as a defeat, as there are no bragging rights earned at the conclusion of the contest. [...]
