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|  | | | |  | | | (click for larger version) | | By David Reed Special to the Review The OAA Red Division League Playoffs Champions for 2011 are the Lake Orion Dragons. They defeated Stoney Creek at the OAA Finals on Saturday, Feb....more >> |
By Larry Matola Special to the Review The OAA Red Division Swim finals took place Wednesday, Feb. 23 through Friday, Feb. 25 at Birmingham Groves High School. The event consisted of a preliminary and finals round, with the swimmers and divers needing to finish in the top 16 to participate in the final round....more >> |
|  | | | |  | | | (click for larger version) | | On Friday, Feb. 25, Lake Orion Varsity Girls Basketball Coach and High School Physical Education teacher Steve Roberts hosted Lake Orion's first Coaches vs. Cancer charity basketball game....more >> |
|  | | | |  | | | (click for larger version) | | The Lake Orion Dragon Boys' Basketball team battled against the Highlanders of Rochester-Adams on Friday, Feb. 25, and while they fought hard to keep the game on the offensive, the uphill battle only got steeper....more >> |
Update for Saturday, March 5Six came to the Palace of Auburn Hills with the goal to place in the top eight. Five are still in the running after two days of competition. Matt Vandermeer and Jeff Sloney compete tonight for a first place finish....more >> |
|  | | | |  | | | (click for larger version) | | In its first year, Everest Collegiate High School girls basketball team won its Sectional Championship for 2011. The team of two juniors, three sophomores, and six freshman earned the trophy at Catholic League Tournament Championship finals at University of Detroit Mercy, Feb....more >> |
|  | | | |  | | | (click for larger version) | | Congratulations to the Oxford High School Varsity Wrestling Team for winning the Division I State Championship in Battle Creek over the weekend....more >> |
The girls basketball season came to a disappointing end at the hands of the Romeo Bulldogs during the opening round of district play on Monday, Feb. 28. Oxford lost 57-24, putting an end to a season which saw a young team go through many struggles this season, finishing with just three wins in 21 games....more >> |
Three solid rounds were not enough to get the varsity cheer team through to the state cheer finals, as they finished last at regionals on Saturday, Feb. 26. The Wildcats finished with a score of 707....more >> |
Advancing to team states wasn't in the cards for the varsity bowling teams when they took on the regional competition in Sterling Heights on Saturday, Feb. 26. Much like previous results this season, the girls team fared better than the boys....more >> |
In a season full of close games and losses for the varsity basketball team in the Oakland Activities Association, they suffered yet another heartbreaker, this time at the hands of Royal Oak on Thursday, Feb....more >> |
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| 1844: Mary Cassatt, impressionist painter. |
| 1859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, creator of the Sherlock Holmes series. |
| 1907: Laurence Olivier, actor. |
| 1920: Thomas Gold, astronomer. |
| 1927: Peter Mathiessen, writer. |
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| 1246: Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France. |
| 1455: King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses. |
| 1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri. |
| 1856: Senator Preston Brooks of South Carolina strikes Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery. |
| 1863: Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins. |
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