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Dailey plays for Bethany
BETHANY, W.Va. -- Six-foot-6 freshman Cole Dailey from East Liverpool is the leading scorer for the Bethany College basketball team.
Dailey is shooting 53% from the field and averaging 14.6 points a game through nine games.
Bethany suffered a 78-77 loss to Westminster (Pa.) on Monday after leading 72-59 with less than eight minutes to play.
Westminster junior guard Andrew Clark, a Springfield Local graduate, made layup and free throw with 20 seconds left to complete the rally for the Titans.
Clark totaled 10 points and a game-high 10 rebounds in 26 minutes.
Junior guard Reese Leone from West Branch added two points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals in 34 minutes and 6-foot-7 freshman forward Alex Rothwell from Springfield Local had four points and two rebounds in 14 minutes off the bench.
For Bethany, Dailey started and collected seven points, five offensive rebounds and one block in 21 minutes.
Westminster improves to 7-2 overall and 5-1 in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, while Bethany drops to 0-9 and 0-7 PAC.
Bohren retires from coaching
VIENNA -- Mathews football coach Bill Bohren announced his retirement from coaching on Tuesday.
Bohren, 88, cited health reasons for his retirement.
Bohren, who has 309 career wins, had coached the Mustangs for two seasons, both which ended in playoff appearances.
He began his coaching career in 1964 and spent time at Ottawa-Glandorf, Steubenville, Portsmouth, Lakeview, Boardman, Butler (Pa.), Salem, Niles, LaBrae, Southington and Mathews during that span.
SEBRING -- The Sebring McKinley High School Athletic Hall of Fame will induct two into its 2022 class at an induction ceremony planned for Jan. 13 between the junior varsity and varsity boys basketball games against Western Reserve.
Matt Johnston (Class of 1979) will be inducted for his performance in basketball, track, football and golf. Jillian Faudree Schleuder (Class of 2009) will be inducted for her play in softball, volleyball and cheerleading.
Cake and punch will be served in Brook Gym following the game.
Sebring Hall of Fame
SEBRING -- The Sebring McKinley High School Athletic Hall of Fame will induct two into its 2022 class at an induction ceremony planned for Jan. 13 between the junior varsity and varsity boys basketball games against Western Reserve.
Matt Johnston (Class of 1979) will be inducted for his performance in basketball, track, football and golf. Jillian Faudree Schleuder (Class of 2009) will be inducted for her play in softball, volleyball and cheerleading.
Cake and punch will be served in Brook Gym following the game.
1,446 deer in county
COLUMBUS - Hunters harvested 71,932 white-tailed deer during the 2022 gun week that concluded on Sunday, Dec. 4, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. In the same weeklong period over the past three years, hunters checked an average of 68,534 deer. In 2021, the weeklong number was 70,381. Deer gun season opens again for the weekend of Dec. 17-18.
During the deer gun week, hunters checked 26,355 bucks (37% of the harvest), 36,546 does (51%), and 7,983 button bucks (11%). Bucks that had already shed their antlers or bucks with antlers less than 3 inches in length accounted for 1% of deer taken (1,048).
Hunters in Columbiana County took 1,446 deer compared to a three-year average of 1,293. In Mahoning County, hunters harvested 548 deer compared with the three-year average of 571.
Bryan leads United
KENSINGTON -- United's bowling teams were winners over Alliance at Forest Lanes on Tuesday.
United's boys were 2,465-2,259 winners as Patrick Bryan had a 226 game. Preston Furlong added a 190 game.
The United girls were 2,032-1,682 winners. MaKayla Frederick had 175 game,while Hallee Burton had a 172 game.
Wellsville bounces Chaney
EAST LIVERPOOL -- Wellsville's bowling team bested Youngstown Chaney 1,921-1,347 at Walnut Lanes on Tuesday.
Maddox Bosco had a 210 game and a 352 series. Tyler Landess added a 200 game and a 381 series.
Wellsville (4-0) will visit Maplewood today at Echo Lanes.
Bulldogs lose coach
(AP) -- Mike Leach, the gruff, pioneering and unfiltered college football coach who helped revolutionize the passing game with the Air Raid offense, has died following complications from a heart condition, Mississippi State said Tuesday. He was 61.
Leach, who was in his third season as head coach at Mississippi State, fell ill Sunday at his home in Starkville, Mississippi. He was treated at a local hospital before being airlifted to University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, about 120 miles away.
"Mike was a giving and attentive husband, father and grandfather. He was able to participate in organ donation at UMMC as a final act of charity," the family said in a statement issued by Mississippi State. "We are supported and uplifted by the outpouring of love and prayers from family, friends, Mississippi State University, the hospital staff, and football fans around the world. Thank you for sharing in the joy of our beloved husband and father's life."
Leach fought through a bout with pneumonia late in this season, coughing uncontrollably at times during news conferences, but seemed to be improving, according to those who worked with him.
News of him falling gravely ill swept through college football the past few days and left many who knew him stunned, hoping and praying for Leach's recovery under grim circumstances.
His impact on college football over the last two decades runs deep and will continue for years to come.
Leach was known for his pass-happy offenses, wide-ranging interests -- he wrote a book about Native American leader Geronimo, had a passion for pirates, a taught a class about insurgent warfare -- and rambling, off-the-cuff news conferences.
Leach's teams were consistent winners at programs where success did not come easy. In 21 seasons as a head coach at Texas Tech, Washington State and Mississippi State, Leach went 158-107. And his quarterbacks put up massive passing statistics, running a relatively simple offense called the Air Raid that he did not invent but certainly mastered.
An interview with Leach was as likely to veer off into politics, wedding planning or hypothetical mascot fights as it was to stick to football. He considered Donald Trump a friend before the billionaire businessman ran for president and then campaigned for him in 2016.
He traveled all over the world and his curiosity knew no bounds. He most appreciated those who stepped outside of their expertise.
"One of the biggest things I admire about Michael Jordan, he got condemned a lot for playing baseball. I completely admired that," Leach told The Associated Press last spring. "I mean, you're gonna be dead in 100 years anyway. You've mastered basketball and you're gonna go try to master something else, and stick your neck out and you're not afraid to do it, and know that a lot of people are gonna be watching you while you do it. I thought it was awesome."
As much as Leach enjoyed digging into topics other than football, he was excellent at the Xs and Os.
Six of the 20 best passing seasons in major college football history were by quarterbacks who played for Leach, including four of the top six.
Calling plays from a folded piece of paper smaller than an index card, Leach turned passers such as B.J. Symons (448.7 yards per game), Graham Harrell (438.8), Connor Halliday (430.3) and Anthony Gordon (429.2) into record-setters and Heisman Trophy contenders.
"You have to make choices and limit what you're going to teach and what you're going to do. That's the hard part," Leach told the AP about the Air Raid's economical playbook.