United Local's football team has dominated the Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference with four straight championships and over the last six seasons the Golden Eagles (8-1) have made the playoffs every time. But during that strong run, United has only won two playoff games and has never got out of ...
West Branch is the area's highest ranked football team because the Warriors proved it on the field. West Branch, coming off a 50-0 win against rival Salem, tied for 10th in Division IV of the final Associated Press high school football state poll released Wednesday. The Warriors (9-1) are winning with defense. Their first-team defense has allowed four touchdowns all season — three in a loss to Canfield and one to New Philadelphia. Senior quarterback and YSU recruit Grady Hirst directs a West Branch offense that is averaging 35.6 points and 391 total yards a game. Hirst has thrown ...
CADIZ — Down 4-0 late in the match, top-seeded Beaver Local fought back but dropped a tough 4-2 decision to second-seeded Tri-Valley in a Division III district championship girls’ soccer match at Harrison Central’s Wagner Field on Wednesday night. “I asked them to leave everything on ...
STEUBENVILLE — The Ohio High School Athletic Association is looking into an incident that occurred late in the Steubenville-New Philadelphia boys soccer match on Tuesday night. With less than six minutes to go in the game, a Steubenville player contacted an official who was displaying a penalty card at another player following a collision near the goal. Video of the incident circulated on social media on Wednesday. The Steubenville player appeared to run at and slam into the official. The referee was sent to the ground. The referee continued to officiate the final minutes of the ...
SPLIT SQUAD SALEM — The Salem girls cross country team is expected to be at full strength Saturday as the Quakers seek their sixth straight state berth. Salem athletic director Matt Freeman said the school's request to change the time of the girls soccer district final on Saturday was denied by the OHSAA Northeast District. He said the girls will be running in the Division III regional cross country meet at Boardman High School at 1:40 p.m. Saturday. Four of the Quakers' top seven runners also play on the soccer team, which also plays on Saturday afternoon. The 10th-seeded Quakers ...
SALEM — Salem's girls soccer team put in the work on Tuesday in its Div. IV district semifinal against Northwest to make sure there was a whole lot more work on Saturday. Sophomore defender Nora Shean went into an attacking position late in the game to score the Quakers' game winner with ...
