East Liverpool playoff tickets

EAST LIVERPOOL — Playoff football is coming to Patterson Field on Friday night.

East Liverpool (7-4) will host Millersburg West Holmes (6-5) in a Division IV second-round playoff game at 7 p.m. Friday.

Tickets are $11 for adults and $5 for students at www.ohsaa.org/tickets. Student tickets can be purchased during lunch periods on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in the cafeteria.

West Branch playoff tickets

BELOIT — West Branch will host another Division IV playoff football game on Friday night.

The Warriors (11-0) will play defending state champion Cleveland Glenville (8-3) at Heacock Stadium at 7 p.m. Friday.

Tickets are $11 for adults and $5 for students at www.ohsaa.org/tickets.

Lights out at Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — Due to a power outage affecting multiple buildings on the Youngstown State University campus Monday, the Penguins’ season-opening women’s basketball game was canceled along with a men’s game that was part of a doubleheader.

The lights in Beeghly Center went out around 5 p.m., approximately 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of the women’s game, and the power was not supposed to be back on Monday night.

The women’s game will not be rescheduled since the Fighting Hawks had travel arrangements to return home to Grand Forks, North Dakota, after Monday’s game.

More information about a possible rescheduling of the men’s basketball game against Westminster will be announced.

Christopher tops Horizon League

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Youngstown State’s Hunter Christopher won his second consecutive individual title at the Horizon League Cross Country Championships on Saturday.

Christopher, a fifth-year student from Salem, had a winning time of 24:11.2 in the men’s 8K race at the Shorewood Cross Country Course.

YSU sophomore Connor Shingleton from Minerva was 19th (25:20.7).

He led the Penguins to the men’s team title for the third straight year. YSU was with 26 points, followed by IU Indianapolis with 74.

Robert Morris won the women’s team title with 67 points. YSU was fourth with 98.

Milwaukee junior Anelise Egge won the women’s 6K race (21:07.9).

Youngstown State freshman Caleigh Richards from Maplewood was eighth (21:46.3) and was named the Women’s Freshman of the Year.

A pair of Salem High School graduates followed with YSU junior Molly Hopple in 48th (23:44.4) and YSU freshman Megan Stafford in 53rd (23:52.6).

Cleveland State junior Madeline Crissman from Minerva was 115th (26:44.8).

Hvizdos, Standley run for OAC champ John Carroll

FINDLAY– Former South Range High School standouts Michael Hvizdos and Brian Standley are adding more championships.

They helped John Carroll University to its fourth straight title at the Ohio Athletic Conference Cross Country Championships Saturday.

The Blue Streaks had four of the top five finishers to win with 26 points. Mount Union was second with 61.

John Carroll senior Michael Hvizdos was 48th (26:25.5) and sophomore Brian Standley was 65th (26:26.9) in the 8K race at Hillcrest Golf Club.

Wilmington senior Noah Tobin topped the 176-runner field (24:20.9)

The John Carroll women captured their fifth straight league title with 42 points, followed by Ohio Northern with 65. Mount Union was fourth with 81.

Wilmington sophomore Faith Duncan was first in the 125-runner field on the 6K course (19:49.2). John Carroll freshman Anne Rea from Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary was ninth (22:22.5), Mount Union senior Halle Cochran from Salem was 54th (24:26.2) and Heidelberg senior Kenzie Fountain from Minerva was 55th (24:27.7).

Greenlief gets another PAC honor

WAYNESBURG, Pa. – Waynesburg University sophomore goalkeeper Alexus Greenlief has been named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Defensive Player of the Week for the third time this season.

Greenlief, who starred at Oak Glen High School,

Greenlief faced 52 shots and made a career-high 17 saves in Waynesburg’s 1-1 draw at Grove City in the Yellow Jackets’ regular-season finale on Wednesday. Greenlief made eight saves after Waynesburg tied the match in the 59th minute.

Waynesburg was the only squad beside top-seeded Westminster to notch a point against the Wolverines in the 2024 regular season.

Greenlief made nine stops in the PAC Tournament quarterfinals at Allegheny. The Yellow Jackets’ season came to a close with a 3-1 defeat to the Gators.

Waynesburg finished 8-5-4 for a second straight season with a winning record.

Lowry playing at Western Michigan

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Quarterback Broc Lowry, who led Canfield to the 2022 Division III state championship, is seeing some playing time with the Western Michigan Broncos.

Lowry scored a touchdown on a 14-yard run during a 52-21 win against Kent State on Oct. 26.

A 6-foot-1, 220-pound reshirt freshman, Lowry has played in six games this season. He has rushed for 105 yards and two touchdowns on 17 carries (6.2) and completed two of five passes for 13 yards.

He played four games in his only season at Indiana while redshirting last year.

Western Michigan is 5-3 overall and 4-0 in the Mid-American Conference. The Broncos will host Northern Illinois at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The game will be televised on ESPN2.

YSU’s Householder tops Horizon League

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State junior outside hitter Abbie Householder has been named the Horizon League Volleyball Player of the Week.

Householder, a former Canfield High School standout, led the Penguins to two wins in three matches last week.

She led the conference last week with 5.32 points per set. She also tied for the league lead with 4.45 kills per set, and she ranked among the top eight in aces and digs per set.

For the season, Householder ranks second in the conference in both kills (4.04) and points (4.65) per set, seventh in aces (0.37) and 14th in digs (3.20).

Youngstown State (9-17 will play at Cleveland State at 6 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday.

Cameron seventh at West Virginia state meet

ONA, W.Va. — Oak Glen sophomore Lacey Cameron raced to a seventh-place showing on Saturday at the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission Class AA state cross country meet at Cabell Midland High School.

Cameron finished in 20:14.62. Herbert Hoover freshman Maysen Fletcher won in 18:77.77.

Williamstown won the girls team title.

In the boys competition, Oak Glen junior Bode Konchar took 48th in Class AA in 18:22.82. Elkins sophomore Trevor George won in 16:09.86.

Elkins also won the team title.

Chiefs beat Buccaneers in OT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw for 291 yards and three touchdowns, and Kareem Hunt pounded into the end zone from 2 yards out in overtime to give the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs a 30-24 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night.

Kelce swift to apologize

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Retired Eagles center Jason Kelce apologized during ESPN’s pregame show Monday night after grabbing the phone of an unruly fan and spiking it to the ground before the Ohio State-Penn State game last weekend.

“In a heated moment, I decided to greet hate with hate,” Kelce said before ESPN’s broadcast of the Buccaneers-Chiefs game featuring his brother, Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce. “I fell short this week.”

Jason Kelce was attending the Big Ten matchup between the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions in State College, Pennsylvania, when the incident occurred. Video on social media showed him walking through a crowd near Beaver Stadium and fans asking for photos and fist bumps when one fan began to heckle him.

At that point, Kelce grabbed the fan’s phone and threw it to the ground, then turned to confront the man dressed in Penn State attire. Another fan appeared to step between them before the altercation could escalate.

“I think everybody has seen on social media what happened this week,” Kelce said on the ESPN broadcast. “Listen, I’m not happy with anything that took place. I’m not proud of it. In a heated moment I chose to greet hate with hate and I just don’t think that’s a productive thing, I really don’t. I don’t think it leads to discourse and it’s the right way to go about things. In that moment I fell down to a level that I shouldn’t have.

“The bottom line is, I try to live my life by the golden rule, that’s what I’ve always been taught,” he said. “I try to treat people with common decency and respect, and I’m going to keep doing that moving forward.”