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EOAC CROSS COUNTRY
EAST PALESTINE -- The 10th annual Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference Cross Country Meet will be held today at East Palestine City Park.
Columbiana won the boys and girls team titles last year with the girls winning the last two years.
The boys and girls will run combined races and be scored separately. The race schedule includes fifth- and sixth-grade at 4:30 p.m, junior high at 5 p.m. and high school at 5:30 p.m.
OHSAA MOVES SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS
COLUMBUS -- The Ohio High School Athletic Association announced on Monday that the state soccer championships will return to the current home of the Columbus Crew -- ScottsMiracle-Gro Field.
The 20,139 seat stadium in the Arena District near downtown Columbus opened in 2021 and hosted the OHSAA soccer state championships in 2021 and 2022 before the finals moved back to Historic Crew Stadium in 2023, 2024 and 2025. The OHSAA soccer finals were at Historic Crew Stadium from 1999-2020.
The move is due to turf maintenance at Historic Crew Stadium.
The state championships will be held from Nov. 13-16.
The girls Div. IV will be held at noon on Nov. 13 followed by the Div. V title game at 3 p.m. On Nov. 14, the girls Div. I game will be at 1 p.m. followed by the Div. III game at 4 p.m. and the Div. II game at 7 p.m. On Nov. 15, the boys Div. IV game will be held at 1 p.m. followed by the Div. V game at 4 p.m. and Div. I game at 7 p.m. On Nov. 16, the boys Div. III game will be held at 4 p.m. with the Div. II game set for 7 p.m.
CHESTNUTS TOP LEAGUE
NEW GARDEN -- Gage Chestnut and Isaiah Chestnut won the Zep’s Pizza & More, at Pinky’s Wednesday Night League at Eagle Pass Golf Course.
They won the championship match by downing Mike Palmer and Dale Kampfer, 22 to 17.
WVU FOOTBALL RECRUIT KILLED
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia football commit Chris Wilson was reportedly shot and killed Sunday night in Delaware County, Indiana, according to multiple local outlets. The 17-year-old was reportedly shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene Monday morning after being found in a car by Muncie police.
Wilson was a four-star defensive end recruit for the class of 2027 from Yorktown High School and had been committed to the Mountaineers since June 11 of 2026. He was the third-best recruit in the class for WVU at 6-foot-5, 235 pounds.
His junior year, Wilson played in 12 games and registered seven tackles for loss and four sacks. He also defended four passes and had an interception. This season, he played in five games, had 12 total tackles and two tackles for loss.
MORAN WINS PITTSBURGHER
IMPERIAL, Pa. -- Devin Moran of Dresden, Ohio, led all 70 laps to win his first Pittsburgh 100 on Saturday night at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway.
He topped the 44-car field to win the $50,000 first-place prize plus a $5,000 Sunoco race Fuels bonus.
The victory was Moran’s 31st career Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win.
The event was shortened to one day due to a threat of rain Friday. There were 121 cars in three divisions that included 12 heat races, five B-Mains, a six-lap Sunoco Dash, and four A-Main feature events on Saturday night.
Other feature winners were Carson Ferguson of Lincolnton, N.C., in the 40-lap Rush Late Models and Chris Schneider of Lower Burrell, Pa., in the Penn Ohio Pro Stocks.
CHEERS FOR FEARS
ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Michigan State guard Jeremy Fears has been named the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year.
The fourth-year player was selected on Monday by the conference’s coaches and a media panel, coming off a season that earned him second-team All-America and All-Big Ten recognition. Fears was a unanimous selection for the preseason all-conference team along with Nebraska’s Pryce Sandfort.
The All-Big Ten preseason team also includes David Mirkovic and Andrej Stojakovic of Illinois, Maryland’s Pharrell Payne, Elliot Cadeau and Trey McKenney of defending champion Michigan, John Mobley of Ohio State, UCLA’s Trent Perry, Rodney Rice of USC and Wisconsin’s Nolan Winter.
Fears led college basketball with 9.4 assists a game and averaged a team-high 15.2 points for the Spartans as a redshirt sophomore last season. He set the school’s NCAA Tournament record with 16 assists in a second-round win against Louisville, surpassing the mark set by former Michigan State superstar Magic Johnson, and finished with a single-season school record with 328 assists.
He declared for the draft, but chose to return to chase a national championship with a team that might have a shot to end the season at the Final Four in Detroit.
Fears was limited to 12 games in his first season of college basketball after being shot in the leg when he went back home to Joliet, Illinois, for 2023 holiday break.
His brother, Jeremiah Fears, is entering his second NBA season with New Orleans Pelicans after they drafted the former Oklahoma star with the No. 7 overall pick last year.