Sports
The Week Ahead: Pivotal Football Games and Regionals For Boys Tennis, Girls Golf
All Bloomfield Hills area schools will have busy Thursday with regionals scheduled for both sports.
Varsity Tennis
The regionals are this Thursday for all the area varsity boys tennis teams.
Andover and Lahser are in the same Division 2 regional and will play at Harrison High School starting at 8:30 a.m. Also competing in the regional are Avondale, Dexter, Farmington, Harrison, North Farmington, Pinckney and Ypsilanti.
The other Bloomfield Hills teams are in different divisions.
Find out what's happening in Bloomfield-Bloomfield Hillswith free, real-time updates from Patch.
Brother Rice is in Division 1 and a favorite to advance to the state finals in the Grosse Pointe South regional on Thursday, also at 8:30 a.m. Fraser, Grosse Pointe South, Lathrup, Royal Oak, Troy, Troy Athens, Warren Mott, Warren-Cousino and De La Salle are the teams competing against the Warriors.
In Division 3, Country Day hosts its regional on Thursday morning. The Yellowjackets (second) along with Cranbrook Kingswood (first) were the top two teams in the division last year and both schools will compete in the same regional with Divine Child, Pershing, Ferndale, Goodrich and Lamphere.
Find out what's happening in Bloomfield-Bloomfield Hillswith free, real-time updates from Patch.
Varsity Golf
The varsity girls golf regionals are also this Thursday.
Marian and Andover will play in the Division 2 regional at the Heather Highlands Golf Course in Holly. Avondale, Berkley, Groves, Seaholm, Fenton, Grosse Pointe North, Holly, Brandon, Oxford and Lakeview are the other schools in the division.
Both Marian and Andover qualified for the state finals last year and finished in the top 10.
Lahser is in Division 3 with Detroit Country Day and Cranbrook Kingswood. The three schools will play on Thursday at the Orchard Lake Country Club.
Carleton-Airport, Divine Child, Crockett Technical, Detroit-Northwestern, Grosse Ile, Ladywood, Marysville, Monroe-Jefferson, New Boston-Huron, South Lyon East, Tecumseh and Trenton will try and stop Country Day and Cranbrook Kingswood making it back to the state finals.
Varsity Football
Lahser hosts Hazel Park on Thursday at 7 p.m. in an Oakland Activities Association Blue division game.
The Knights need to win two of their final three games to automatically qualify for the state playoffs. It has a really tough game on the road against Avondale next week and then Andover at home in the final game of the regular season.
A loss this week to the Vikings would put Lahser’s on the brink of elimination.
Andover is still searching for its first win of the season and could have its best chance this Thursday hosting Flint Northwestern at 7 p.m.The Barons beat the Wildcats last year 31-20 in their lone win of the season. Flint Northwestern isn’t much better this season with a 1-5 record.
Country Day will try to extend its winning streak to five games when visiting Linden at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Brother Rice has a key game against Catholic Central on the road Saturday at 7 p.m.
On the schedule:
- THURSDAY: Andover v. Flint Northwestern (home; 7 p.m.)
- THURSDAY: Lahser v. Hazel Park (home; 7 p.m.)
- THURSDAY: Country Day v. Linden (away; 7 p.m.)
- SATURDAY: Brother Rice v. Catholic Central (away; 7 p.m.)
