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East-West All-Star Game
CADIZ -- East Liverpool's LaNease Andrews and Beaver Local's Luke Rettos will play in the District 5 Basketball Coaches Association East-West All-Star Games on Sunday at Harrison Central. Girls game will start at 2 p.m. with boys to follow at 4 p.m. Admission is $10.
McKinnon to lead Madonna
WEIRTON, W.Va. -- Lisbon High School graduate Shawn McKinnon was named the Weirton Madonna head football coach on Tuesday.
McKinnon is a former assistant coach with Wellsville and East Liverpool.
Madonna is trying to rebuild its football program after not fielding a team last year.
Hamilton tops new league
The new Northeast Senate League will be led by a 1988 West Branch High School graduate.
The league named Curt Hamilton its league commissioner on Wednesday.
The league consisting of Carrollton, Claymont, Fairless, Marlington, Minerva, Sandy Valley, Tuscarawas Valley and Tuslaw will begin play in 2028-29.
Hamilton is a veteran educator, coach and administrator with over three decades of experience in Ohio high school athletics. Since 2020, he has served as the assistant commissioner of the Eastern Buckeye Conference where he gained experience in league operations and official assigning.
His deep ties to the region are rooted in a 30-year career at Marlington High School where he has served as an history teacher and social studies department chair. On the athletic front, Hamilton spent over 20 years as a head wrestling coach and currently serves as a site coordinator for athletic events.
He also is a registered official with OHSAA in volleyball, wrestling and track. Hamilton was inducted into the Stark County Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2018 and the Top Gun Wrestling Tournament Hall of Fame in 2024.
Crosby out again for Pens
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) -- Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby left Thursday night's game at Ottawa early in the second period with a lower-body injury, barely a week after he returned from a lower-body injury sustained at the Olympics with Team Canada.
Crosby took a 38-second opening shift in the second period, before heading through the tunnel toward the locker room. The Penguins later announced he would not return to the game, and coach Dan Muse said afterward he had no update on Crosby's condition.
Crosby had also headed through the tunnel following his last shift of the first period after appearing to get his left leg tangled up in a collision. He finished with one shot on goal in nine shifts in Pittsburgh's 4-3 shootout win over the Senators.
The 38-year-old center missed 11 games for the Penguins after he was injured in an Olympic quarterfinal game on Feb. 18. Crosby returned to action at Carolina on March 18 with a goal and an assist, and he had an assist in each of Pittsburgh's last three games. He leads the team with 28 goals and 64 points in 61 games.
Ben Kindel scored the shootout winner to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-3 win over the Senators.