ORTONVILLE ? Sometimes important basketball and life lessons can be learned from difficult experiences. Oxford boys basketball Coach Paul Marfia hopes his team learned a lesson last Friday in a 59-48 loss to Brandon. ‘Brandon came out with great emotion and we dug ourselves a hole early that we could not get out of,? Marfia […]
ORTONVILLE – A long-standing basketball rivalry between Ortonville Brandon and Oxford ended very well for the Lady Wildcats on Friday as they rolled to a 49-39 victory in the last meeting of the Flint Metro League rivals. Coach Al Poynter said he was a little concerned during warm-ups if his team was ready for the […]
The Oxford Wildcats ended their era in the Flint Metro League last week as the best football program in league history, finishing with a remarkable 28-year streak of winning seasons. Keeping that 28-year streak intact wasn’t exactly easy at the Wildcats had to top Holly, 24-23, in overtime to finish at 5-4 on the season. […]
Great rivalries should not end this way. Oxford and Linden have had a recent history of great games punctuated by overtime excitement and upsets. But the final game between the two Flint Metro league rivals ended in a disappointing way for Bud Rowley Wildcats. The Eagles rolled to a 49-0 victory over Oxford last week, […]
Few things have come easy for Coach Bud Rowley’s 2009 Wildcats. The team’s last season in the Flint Metro League has been hard-fought with the Cats clawing for each victory. A 17-9 loss last week to Swartz Creek dropped the Wildcats to 4-3 overall and means they must win their final two games of the […]
Nothing has come easy for Coach Bud Rowley’s Wildcats this season. Each one of the team’s four victories this year has been a nail-biter and the 13-10 homecoming win over Lapeer East on Friday was just another one in the string. Three of the four victories have been by three points and the fourth was […]
The Oxford Wildcat football team will likely not enjoy very many double-digit victories this year in the Flint Metro League. Bud Rowley’s squad has fought hard each week in some close contests, but on Friday the group could not overcome the emotion of a Brandon homecoming game and some late success of the Blackhawks, losing […]
After four games and a 3-1 record it has become obvious that Coach Bud Rowley’s Wildcats will have to claw and scratch their way through the Flint Metro League this season. On Friday, the Cats? tenacious defense held off a strong Fenton team for a 10-7 win. Fenton, led by its highly touted quarterback Tyler […]
It is rare that Bud Rowley’s Oxford Wildcats are held scoreless. But Lapeer West, in the final regular season meeting between the two rivals, shutout the Cats, 17-0, last week. The game was closer than a 17-0 score would indicate. Most of the game saw West holding a 3-0 advantage before scoring twice late in […]
It isn’t usually the size of the football player that makes a winner but the size of the player’s heart and his determination and fight. Oxford football Coach Bud Rowley understands that better than most. He regularly fields football teams that are smaller than their Flint Metro League opponents but outplay them week after week […]