Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Birmingham lacrosse falls to Cranbrook in the final seconds; Bloomfield Hills Lahser bests Berkley in soccer.
* home team in all CAPS FERNDALE over Farmington, 2-1 Lexie Brisson-Fast scored twice to give the Ferndale High School girls soccer team a key victory over Oakland Activities Association Blue rival Farmington on Tuesday night. The Eagles won 2-1 to give it sole possession of the division title in the Blue and an undefeated record in league play at 10-0-2. Overall, Ferndale is 13-2-2. LAHSER over Berkley, 3-2 On senior night, Bloomfield Hills Lahser overcame an early goal against to go up 3-1 on Berkley, and the Knights held on for a 3-2 win after a late goal by the Bears. Lahser was proud to honor its seven seniors with a victory. Goals were scored by Maddie Rohr, Suzanne Miller, and Maddie Ferry. Brea Dean had key saves late in the game …
Monday, May 14, 2012
Vote for your favorite prep sports athlete in Oakland County or write in an athlete you think deserves recognition. You have until Friday at 9 a.m. to register your vote!
Vote here to help choose the Patch Athlete of the Week of Oakland County for the week ending May 12. Last week, Birmingham Seaholm baseball player Spencer Eick won the Athlete of the Week poll. Vote for one of the following athletes, or write in your own candidate in the comments: Kathy Quigley – Seaholm High School (Lacrosse): Kathy Quigley helped the Birmingham United varsity girls lacrosse team go 3-0 last week. She had three goals and three assists in a 22-6 win over Lake Orion to start the week on Monday. On Thursday, she had three goals in a 14-8 win over Sacred Heart and on Friday she had five more goals and two assists in a big 14-2 win over Troy. Emerson Misch – Andover High School (Baseball): Emerson Misch was a difference-maker …
Friday, May 11, 2012
The Barons erase three-run deficit at Lakeshore on Friday; highlights and scores from around Oakland County for the week.
* home team in all CAPS Andover over ST. CLAIR LAKESHORE, 10-4 Andover rallied to beat St. Clair Lakeshore on the road Friday night 10-4. Lakeshore score all four of its runs in the bottom of the third. The Barons stormed back with three runs in the fourth, five in the sixth and two insurance runs in the seventh. Zach Wolfe struck out four batters over the first three innings. Truman Lorick pitched three scoreless innings in relieve and Gabe Berman struck out the side in the seventh. Myron Butler had two hits and two RBIs. Emerson Misch went 3-for-5 with a walk and an RBI. Gabe Berman hit a homerun. Andover's record is now 19-4-1 and it takes on Lamphere in a doubleheader on Saturday at home. BIRMINGHAM UNITED over Sacred Heart, 14-8 …
Monday, May 7, 2012
Vote for your favorite prep sports athlete or write in one you think deserves recognition. You have until Friday at 9 a.m. to register your vote!
Vote here to help choose the Patch Athlete of the Week of Oakland County for the week ending April 28. Last week, Andover baseball player Tim Zobl won the Athlete of the Week poll. Vote for one of the following or write in your own candidate in the comments: Stephanie Miller – Berkley High School (soccer): Stephanie Miller continues to score goals in bunches. Miller scored two goals in a 5-1 win over West Bloomfield on Thursday. Earlier in the week she gave the Bears an early 1-0 lead over North Farmington. Berkley went on to win 3-1. Miller is the team’s leading scorer and a big reason why the Bears are undefeated at 9-0-2 this season. Catherine Gray – Royal Oak High School (tennis): Catherine Gray had a perfect week for the Royal Oak …
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Barons’ Tim Zobl tops West Bloomfield’s Allyson Kus in a wild week of voting.
Andover’s Tim Zobl won the Patch Athlete of the Week title for April 23-28 with over 4,000 votes after a week of unscientific polling among Patch readers in Oakland County, or 55 percent of the total votes cast (8,247). He edged out Allyson Kus from West Bloomfield, who also received strong support. The Lakers starting pitcher had 42 percent of the votes (3,541). Zobl won after he showed a tremendous amount of power last week for the Barons’ High School baseball team. In a 10-2 win over Harrison, Zobl went 3-for-3 with a home run. In Game 1 of a doubleheader against Royal Oak on Friday, he went deep again and had two RBI in a 12-5 win. He picked up where he left off with another homerun this week. Other athletes in the poll included: …
The Maples beat the Bears in five innings; full week of highlights from around Oakland County.
* home team in all CAPS Seaholm over BERKLEY, 14-3 (Five Innings) Spencer Eick and Josh Leitman were on fire for Birmingham Seaholm on Friday, combining for seven RBI in the Maples' 14-3 five-inning mercy-rule win over Berkley. Eick finished the game 3-for-4 with two doubles, four RBI and three runs. Leitman was also 3-for-4 with two extra base hits and three RBI. Tommy Scheidt hit a homerun. The Bears actually had an early 3-1 after the first inning, but Seaholm came roaring back with four runs in the third and fourth. Michael Levitsky was the winning pitcher giving up three runs, two earned, over five innings. He gave up six hits and two walks while striking out three. BERKLEY over West Bloomfield, 5-1 Berkley won its Oakland Activities …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
During a battle with cystic fibrosis and after losing her mom last year, 11-year-old Shayna Hersh and her class wrote letters to her hero and ended up on a surprise journey she couldn't imagine.
Eleven-year-old Shayna Hersh might give Justin Verlander a run for his money. The Burton Elementary School fifth-grader from Berkley is the self-proclaimed biggest Detroit Tigers fan ever, goes by “Verlander” at school and is the only girl who plays baseball in the Berkley Dad’s Club baseball league. In fact, Shayna got a black eye and bloody nose during her first practice this year and it didn’t slow her down at all, she said. But this little baseball fan isn’t competing with the Detroit Tigers pitcher (though she dreams of being the first female pitcher in Major League Baseball) — she looks up to him. That’s why when he gave her the surprise of a lifetime last weekend, she was stunned. This week, Shayna and her Burton classmates – her …
Monday, April 30, 2012
Athletes from West Bloomfield, Bloomfield, Troy and Lake Orion are in this week's poll. Vote or write in an athlete you think deserves recognition. You have until 9 a.m. Friday!
Vote here to help choose the Patch Athlete of the Week of Oakland County for the week ending April 28. Last week, Troy Athens softball player Haley Zemmer won the first Athlete of the Week poll for the spring season. Vote for one of the following or write in your own candidate in the comments: Email nominations to Patch sportswriter Mike Niziolek. Nominations must be received by noon Friday for consideration for the next week's poll. Please include a photo or photos of your nominee and detailed information on why he or she is a deserving candidate for the weekly award. Weekly winners are eligible for Patch Athlete of the Season recognition.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Berkley soccer wins, Troy lacrosse beats Walled Lake Northern 13-6.
* home team in all CAPS Bloomfield Hills Lahser over TROY, 2-1 Charlie Dauch was Charlie clutch Friday night for the Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School varsity baseball team. In the fifth inning, Zach Tornow led off the inning with a hit. Dauch came to the plate and belted an RBI double to break a 1-1 tie. Reliever Neal Krentz pitched a scoreless sixth and seventh to secure the win. Krentz closed down a Colts rally in the fifth by forcing a groundout and getting a strikeout. He also had an RBI double in the top of the first. Krentz combined with starter Patrick Monahan and Jack Corbell to limit Troy to only three hits in the game. Dauch and Krentz spoiled a solid pitching performance from Colts starter John Wassel. Wassel allowed twos on …
Red Hawks starting pitcher tops Berkley’s Ian Kobernick in a competitive week of voting.
Troy Athens softball player Haley Zemmer won the Patch Athlete of the Week title for April 16-21, earning 48 percent of the 1,697 votes cast this week. Zemmer, who netted 818 votes, edged out Berkley baseball player Ian Kobernick, who had 32 percent of the votes (559 votes) in a week of unscientific polling among Patch readers. Zemmer won three games last week for the Athens varsity softball team. She pitched complete games in both games of a doubleheader against Birmingham Groves on Wednesday. She won both, striking out 19 batters over two games. At the plate, she had an RBI double in the first game. Friday, in a rain-shortened 9-0 win over Stoney Creek, Zemmer struck out nine batters in five scoreless innings. Other poll results: Dominic…
Beth Reeber Valone
8:32 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Thanks for the Berkley update Laura! more ›