OAA Recap. Week 11.

Written Saturday November 3rd, at 4:30 PM

The District finals in the OAA are now complete. Lake Orion, Clarkston, and Oak Park are going to the regional finals. Lake Orion survived Utica Eisenhower, Clarkston blew out Grand Blanc, and Oak Park beat Southfield in overtime.

Southfield, Avondale, and Oxford all lost their games. Southfield lost to Oak Park in overtime, Avondale got blown out by Orchard Lake St. Marys, and Oxford lost to Birmingham Brother Rice in the postseason.

BIGGEST WIN OF THE NIGHT: Lake Orion 10, Utica Eisenhower 7: The Dragons overcame a 7-0 deficit early after a kickoff return for a touchdown and ended up scoring a touchdown with 1:58 left in the game then they got a huge defensive stop against the Eagles sending them to their fifth district title in seven years.

TOUGH LOSS: Oak Park 19, Southfield 12 O/T: The Knights and Blue Jays went down to the wire yet again but it was the Knights who won it again. Oak Park beat Southfield in the regular season meeting 24-18 and now they have beaten them once again. It is not easy beating a team twice, you got to feel bad for the Blue Jays.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME: Birmingham Brother Rice 38, Oxford 6: The Wildcats play in the White. They played this season against Lake Orion, Southfield, Adams, Oak Park, Harrison, and Farmington but to lay an egg like this against the Warriors (who is a very good team in its standards) is kind of rough. I thought Oxford would be competitive in this game but not get blown out like this. Brother Rice out rushed Oxford by an alarming 313-49, unbelievable.

Week 11 Big Games:

Macomb Dakota at Lake Orion: The Cougars are 3-0 all time against the Dragons in the playoffs but all of the games were in Macomb. This game is in Lake Orion and Macomb Dakota has to travel. In what is going to be a toss up game both Lake Orion and Macomb Dakota have played only two common opponents, Utica Eisenhower and Sterling Heights Stevenson. Macomb Dakota however has not played a tough opponent on the road since Chippewa Valley. So far the Cougars have played Utica Eisenhower, Dearborn Fordson, and Romeo all at home this season. This game will be on Friday.

Rockford at Clarkston: This is the first time that both the Rams and Wolves will meet. Clarkston has a big offensive line and a power running back. Rockford runs so many different formations that it could give the Wolves fits but have a suspect defense. If I’m Clarkston’s defensive coordinator, I’d be getting a telephone book to study Coach Ralph Munger’s playbook, his playbook is insane. The only good thing here for Clarkston is that they don’t get to travel to Kent County. Kent County travels to them in the form of Rockford. They could likely meet Saturday with the four hour ride across the state (75 mile rule unless both Athletic Directors agree to the Friday match up) but knowing Clarkston Athletic Director, Dan Fife, he would like for the game to be on a Friday.

Oak Park at Wyandotte Roosevelt: The Knights went overtime to eliminate Southfield from the playoffs 19-12 in Knight Valley. This was the first ever district championship in Knights football history. Oak Park will now have to travel to Wyandotte to take on the Bears. Wyandotte Roosevelt beat Taylor Truman 9-0 in Taylor. Both these teams have not played any common opponents this season. This game will likely be on Friday.

It wasn't a surprise that three unbeaten teams fell this week. In division one, the Plymouth Wildcats got their revenge against the Livonia Churchill Chargers 20-14. In division three Milan fell to Tecumseh 26-6 and in division six, Schoolcraft fell to Constantine 40-27. So it hasn't been a good week for unbeaten teams unless your name is Clarkston.

We'll see what happens next week folks.