Losing a few players off of any team is tough, but losing 10 off a team that only plays 12 is about as difficult a task as any. But that’s the task facing coach Eric Bracciano and his girls tennis squad at Lake Orion High School. The Dragons will have to replace their first-ever state […]
Losing a few players off of any team is tough, but losing 10 off a team that only plays 12 is about as difficult a task as any. But that’s the task facing coach Eric Bracciano and his girls tennis squad at Lake Orion High School. The Dragons will have to replace their first-ever state […]
Lake Orion can claim gridiron supremacy over the east side of Michigan this season, but not quite the entire state. Rockford topped the Dragons for the second time in 2008, 26-14 in the Division 1 championship at Ford Field, capitalizing on a few Lake Orion mistakes to win their third title in five years. Rockford […]
A few mistakes aside, you could argue that Lake Orion outplayed Rockford last Saturday at Ford Field. That would be foolish, of course, because mistakes are part of the game. You would expect a team with 46 seniors to make fewer mistakes than a team with several first-year varsity players in key positions. You also […]
For years, fans of the Lake Orion football squad have considered their program to be among the state’s best. Now the results on the field back them up. The Dragons steamrolled Dearborn Fordson, 38-0, Saturday night at Troy Athens to advance to Ford Field, where they will take on Rockford next Saturday at 1 p.m. […]
Lake Orion can claim gridiron supremacy over the east side of Michigan this season, but not quite the entire state. Rockford topped the Dragons for the second time in 2008, 26-14 in the Division 1 championship at Ford Field, capitalizing on a few Lake Orion mistakes to win their third title in five years. A […]
A bevy of reporters, from television stations to newspapers of all sizes, descended on Sterling Heights Stevenson last Friday. And few, if any of them, walked away without seeing the best high school football game of the year. Some fans left when Lake Orion went up 35-7 midway through the third quarter, when it appeared […]
What looked like certain defeat turned into stunning victory with one kick, as Jeff Heath’s leg sent Lake Orion to the state’s final four in football for the first time since 1998. Heath hit a 49-yarder, as time expired, to beat host Sterling Heights Stevenson Friday night in a thrilling Division 1 regional final, 38-36. […]
For years, fans of the Lake Orion football squad have considered their program to be among the state’s best. Now the results on the field back them up. The Dragons steamrolled Dearborn Fordson, 38-0, Saturday night at Troy Athens to advance to Ford Field, where they will take on Rockford next Saturday at 1 p.m. […]
During their nine game winning streak, the Lake Orion football squad earned victories in a variety of ways. But they had yet to do this. The streak reached a record-tying 10 last Friday, as Dragons came from 13 points behind at halftime to top visiting Romeo, 24-23, in a district championship game. With the win, […]