The Oxford Lady Wildcat swimmers are improving with each practice, dive and stroke and Coach Jackie Rank is confident the team will continue its pace. Last week, the swim team lost a non-league match to Brandon, 99-86 and a league meet to Berkley, 112-76. ‘We have had some great swims and we know where to […]
Sometimes karma can be a wonderful thing. For 10 years Oxford’s John Forte has donated his time and his services as a caterer to help with the American Cancer Society’s annual Cattle Baron’s Ball held in Detroit. So, 16 months ago when Forte was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he knew where to go for the […]
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to the Lake Orion community. My name is Dan Shriner and I will be the editor of The Lake Orion Review for awhile. Some of you may know me. I was the editor of The Oxford Leader several years ago before I moved on to […]
Sometimes getting into the heads of your opponents is the best way to defeat them. The Oxford football team learned this simple lesson on Friday to overcome a 10-7 halftime deficit and roll to a 28-16 victory with 21 fourth-quarter points to top Rochester Adams. The turning point in the game came after Adams had […]
The Oxford Wildcats soccer team had a great week, picking up three shutout victories to improve to 6-1-1 in the Oakland Activities Blue Division. On Monday, The Cats beat North Farmington, 1-0, in a battle of two second-place teams in the OAA Blue. Oxford’s only goal came from Paul Tomaka when he lofted a ball […]
SOUTHFIELD ? Sometimes you just forget about a game and move on. The Oxford Wildcats learned that lesson last week when nothing went right and Southfield turned six turnovers into points en route to a 49-7 rout. The Blue Jays played their school’s best game of the season, and got their first home victory of […]
PONTIAC ? The Oxford girls? varsity golf team did what no other Wildcat girls? golf team has ever done ? win an Oakland County golf championship. The Lady Cats won the Division II Oakland County golf title by one stroke over Lahser High School last week. Coach Terry Kelley said the lady linksters from Oxford […]
The Oxford volleyball team has had a rollercoaster ride this season, sometimes looking like a great team and then other times not having the killer instinct to put teams away. On the weekend, the team looked great in a tournament at Goodrich, dominating pool play with a 5-0 record against several quality teams only to […]
There was no chance that Lake Orion Coach Chris Bell was going to let his squad overlook Pontiac last week. The Dragons came out spittin? fire at the Phoenix and rolled to an easy 49-13 victory to remain undefeated and set up the showdown in LO Town on Friday against Clarkston. The victory improved the […]
The Oxford Wildcat’s best offensive showing of the year on Friday will hopefully give Coach Bud Rowley’s team a boost heading into the team’s biggest game of the season. The Wildcats rolled to a 48-6 trouncing of Southfield Lathrup at Oxford’s homecoming last week and on Friday must go against undefeated Oak Park in a […]