As horns sounded in Rochester Friday evening, it wasn’t from rush hour traffic. Rather, many Rochester Adams fans had retreated to their cars in the parking lot overlooking the baseball diamond to root for their home team Highlanders on a chilly afternoon. The car-dwellers had much to honk about when Matt Petrusha hit an inside […]
The Clarkston High School Powerlifting team got over it’s third-place hump at the state championships at Muskegon High School March 17. The sixth-year program won it’s first state championship by squeezing out a 73-point performance to defeat their hosts by three points. The Wolves had 11 top-10 finishers, including three individual state champions: Aaron Sharp […]
Clarkston’s baseball team lost some of its top players after a district championship 21-13 season in 2006, but coach Phil Price is confident in the Wolves? returning starters and its younger players. ‘We’re going to be scrappy and I like what I see so far. The kids are working hard and I think we’re going […]
March 29 is a day that will go down in Clarkston High School history. The night saw the first varsity girls lacrosse game take place at the football stadium and the Wolves tried their hardest to make the inaugural match a victorious won, but came up short, in a 13-11 loss to Flint Carman Ainsworth. […]
A loss in the first round of the district playoffs in 2006 left a sour aftertaste for a 24-13 Clarkston softball team. Third-place in the OAA I a year ago, the Wolves return leaders Caitlin Morris (SS), Katie Smith (RF), Kara Wandrie (2B) and fellow third-year starter Lindsey Upchurch (CF). Coach Don Peters expects leadership […]
Against Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, Clarkston’s lacrosse team put up all the fight in a 9-4 win on a warm spring night before a sparse home crowd Monday. Trailing 3-1 late in the first, Michael Proctor scored with 1:37 remaining in the quarter and Nicholas Perry scored early in the second to tie the game […]
Making their fifth consecutive state quarterfinals appearance last week, the Clarkston basketball team finished another stellar season, which included a share of the Oakland Activities Association championship. The Wolves (21-4), along with fellow champs Pontiac Northern, represented OAA Division I in the elite eight, and another, Southfield Lathrup, advanced to the regional finals. ‘OAA I […]
Finding themselves in familiar territory March 20 against Saginaw, Clarkston’s basketball team played its fifth consecutive state quarterfinal game. Again, Clarkston played a close game, but came up short. The Wolves fell to eventual state champion Saginaw 44-30 at Saginaw Valley State University after taking a one-point lead into halftime. The Trojans employed a renowned […]
Mike Maguire, Clarkston’s state champion wrestler at 119 pounds, didn’t always have that path set in stone. The Clarkston senior was a bit of a late bloomer in the sport, which he began in eighth grade at Clarkston Middle School. After moving to Clarkston from Pontiac, Maguire dropped the basketball and put on headgear after […]
An impressive start it wasn’t, but Clarkston’s boys lacrosse team found a beginning ground in their season-opening 12-2 loss to Warren De La Salle Friday. Dexter Jacques scored twice in the opening minute and Dan Shortt scored his first of three goals at 9:39 of the first period to give the Pilots a 3-0 lead. […]