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Maysville drops East Liverpool

Maysville 78, East Liverpool 36 ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Zanesville Maysville boys basketball team is playing like a state champion again. The defending state champion and top-seeded Panthers pulled away from ninth-seeded East Liverpool, 78-36, in a Division IV district semifinal Tuesday at ...

Hill, Rhodes repeat as county’s best

LISBON — Beaver Local’s Owen Hill and Crestview’s Addison Rhodes made their senior seasons their best ones yet. They repeated as Columbiana County players of the year in balloting by coaches Sunday. Hill is joined by Lisbon senior AJ Ramgeet and Heartland Christian junior Collin ...

COLUMBIANA COUNTY 2025-26 ALL-STAR BASKETBALL TEAM

COLUMBIANA COUNTY 2025-26 ALL-STAR BASKETBALL TEAM BOYS FIRST TEAM Player Class School Owen Hill Sr. Beaver Local AJ Ramgeet Sr. Lisbon Collin Kalaher Jr. Heartland Dre’Keim Abercrombie Jr. East Liverpool Cooper Brown Sr. Columbiana Darnell Roe Jr. Wellsville Deontay ...

Heartland returns to district final

COLUMBIANA — The Heartland Christian Lions purposely scheduled a challenging slate this year to prepare themselves for tournament play. Entering the Lions district semifinal with Cornerstone Christian, the hope was that the Lions were well-prepared for competition like the defending Division ...

Fairport Harding 79, Wellsville 48

Fairport Harding 79, Wellsville 48 FAIRPORT HARBOR — Wellsville’s boys basketball team couldn’t keep up with the zippy Skippers of Fairport Harding on Monday night in a Div. VII district semifinal. The No. 2 seed Skippers used quick ball rotations and a stellar passing display to down ...

Shepas brings experience to East Palestine

EAST PALESTINE — East Palestine’s football program added an experienced head coach who once excelled at the highest levels of the high school football in Ohio on Monday. Rick Shepas, 60, was approved during Monday’s East Palestine Board of Education meeting. Shepas takes over for ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

Feren led South Range CANFIELD — South Range athletic director Donee Feren died on Saturday at the age of 54. A 1990 graduate of South Range where he played quarterback, Feren began coaching in the district in 2008. In 2009 he was named head softball coach and later went on to be named ...

Rebels, Rhodes break through at district

PENINSULA — Led by All-Ohioan Addison Rhodes, the top-seeded Crestview girls basketball team stepped up in the decisive fourth quarter and nailed down the school’s first district title since 2007 with a 50-38 win over stubborn No. 7 seed Chagrin Falls Saturday night at Woodridge High ...

Southern Local gave all it had

GIRARD — Southern Local’s girls basketball team walked into halftime of Saturday’s Division VI district final against Waynedale down one after falling behind by 10 in the first quarter. The Indians felt like they had weathered the storm and could feel a momentum shift but the Golden ...

Shepas will join Bulldogs

EAST PALESTINE — The East Palestine board of education will vote tonight on hiring Rick Shepas as the new head football coach. Shepas, the Warren Harding athletic director, was head coach as Massillon for seven years before becoming Waynesburg University’s winningest coach. He is ...