Despite a loss to begin 2013, the Lake Orion boys? basketball team is poised to challenge for the OAA Blue title this season. The Dragons lost to a new and improved Clarkston squad, 55-45 in an OAA crossover matchup following the holiday layoff. The loss was only the Dragons second of the season as they […]
Lake Orion’s girls? basketball team began 2013 with a big win over Farmington. The Lady Dragons clipped the Falcons, 42-33, for their second win in three games after starting the season 0-4. Lake Orion Coach Steve Roberts said he was pleased how his squad played down the stretch when they needed to hold off Farmington. […]
Senior classmen are usually the key to a successful high school varsity football campaign and Oxford Coach Bud Rowley said this season’s group is key to whether the team can defend its Flint Metro League championship. There will be 18 seniors occupying the 22 offensive and defensive positions and Rowley said he is confident the […]
The Oxford Wildcats grappled to a second-place finish in the Oakland County wrestling championships last week. Oxford finished with 278 points, losing to four-time consecutive champion Detroit Catholic Central, which scored 341. Catholic Central is the defending Division 1 state champions, while Oxford finished second. Rochester was third with 264.5 points, followed by Clarkston 239.5, […]
Dave Rayner understands the life of a placekicker in the National Football League can be like a rollercoaster. Rayner, an Oxford High and Michigan State University graduate, has been in the NFL for five years and was recently picked up by the Detroit Lions as a temporary replacement for the injured Jason Hanson, who is […]
The Oxford boys basketball team won a nail-biter last week in non-league action and then dropped a game to undefeated Rochester Adams. The Wildcats edged Almont, 38-37, but fell to Adams, 71-44. In the Almont game, Oxford ran to an 18-11 lead at halftime but had to hold on in the second half. The Cats […]
The Oxford girls varsity running Wildcats won their fifth consecutive league game to remain undefeated last week. The girls? up-tempo and pressing game has been difficult for teams in the OAA White Division to handle and Rochester Adams was the latest to fall, 45-35. The Cats held Adams to seven points in each of the […]
Anytime an athlete does their best and comes up a little short, they are winners. Oxford swim and dive coach Jackie Rank wants her team to understand that while winning is a team goal, so is working hard. When the boys swim team lost to Clarkston last week, 116-69, Rank saw tremendous improvement that included […]
Oxford bowling has been busy to start the season. The boys and girls had their first losses of the year in head-to-head competition to Clarkston. The boys lost 21-9 and the girls, 23-7. Senior captain Shawn Donaldson’s threw games of 235 and 214, Sophomore Drew Pappas rolled games of 206 and 204 and senior Kevon […]
On paper, it was a match between the second and third best teams in the state last week in Oxford with the No. 3 Wildcats hosting second-ranked Davison. But paper didn’t mean too much as the Cardinals rolled past Oxford, winning 12 of 14 matches en route to a 56-9 victory. What was not evident […]