Try outs for the Lake Orion High School varsity ice hockey team will be Aug. 3, 4 and 10. Aug. 3 try out will be 8-9:30 p.m. at the Troy Sports Center. The Aug. 4 try out will be from 7-9 p.m. at the Detroit Skate Club, Rink A. The final day of try outs, […]
The junior golf program at Paint Creek Country Club expanded this year to over 65 players, up from the 50 that participated last year. The program is available to Paint Creek members, and is supported by golf professional Steve Vickery, and assistant golf professional Marc Vickery. Program volunteer Greg Kwasek said the program started about […]
The waters of Lake Orion have been crowded this year with boaters, jet skiers, people riding on tubes (big and little) and weeds. Hot weekends and nights find pleasure seekers seeking some fun in our area’s most popular attraction. Lakefront homeowners have been especially plagued with weeds growing out of the water and cut weeks […]
Practices for all varsity football programs in the state of Michigan, including Brandon and Goodrich, were scheduled to start Monday, Aug. 8. However, both the Blackhawks and Martians have put in plenty of work during the offseason to get in shape. With the season scheduled to get underway later this month, both programs will fine-tune […]
Recently graduated Brandon High School varsity baseball player Derek Foyt has made his college choice. Foyt has accepted an offer to attend Saginaw Valley State University, a member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, as a preferred walk-on player for the 2005-06 school year. SVSU head baseball coach Walt Head, in his 23rd year […]
The Brandon Athletic Department has announced its 2005 fall sports tryout schedule. To participate in the 2005-06 sports programs, all athletes must have a current physical on or after Apr. 15 on file with the Brandon Athletic Department or given to their coach the first day of tryouts. The tryout schedule is as follows: ‘Girls […]
The National Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships proved to be very beneficial for Goodrich residents Jeff Decator and Michelle Elliott. In Decator’s case, it helped him land an opportunity to compete in the decathlon for the University of Minnesota. Decator finished eighth in the decathlon out of 26 competitors, and Elliott placed 13th out […]
Scott Sawyer figures what works in DeWitt can work in Brandon. Sawyer, a teacher and football coach at Brandon High School, is the coach liasion for the newly formed Brandon Touchdown Club, a group of Brandon football parents whose purpose is to support the Brandon football program. He got the idea while attending a football […]
Groveland Township’s Keith Blakely is officially hooked on the Buick Open Pro-Am experience. Blakely and his team, which was comprised of Professional Golfers Association (PGA) golfer Hank Kuehne and amateurs Richard Sly, Dave Isbell, and George Dass, shot 15 under par to finish fifth out of 53 teams at the Pro-Am, held July 27 at […]
Despite finishing just short in the Baseball Players Association World Series July 24 in Michigan City, IN, the MidState Dirt Dawgs did themselves proud. The Dirt Dawgs, a U14 travel baseball team which features six players from Goodrich, advanced to the championship game of the tournament before falling 4-3 to the BP Bombers of Mokena, […]