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Beavers down Eagles

Beaver Local 12, United 2 CALCUTTA — Paxton Grimes tossed a two-hitter and shut down United, 12-2, in six innings Tuesday. Beaver Local improves to 13-9 and will host St. Clairsville today. United drops to 12-6 and will play at Columbiana today with the Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference title on the line. The Beavers scored eight runs in the bottom of the sixth inning for the victory. Aiden Dray went 3-for-3 with a double and two RBIs and Tysen Hammonds was 3-for-4 with two runs scored for the Beavers. Peyton Martin had two hits, three RBIs and two runs. Jett Johnson doubled, ...

United has to beat the best to be the best

United 9, Columbiana 2 COLUMBIANA — The United softball team ended a long streak and is hoping to start one of its own. Freshman Madison Aegerter tossed a three-hitter as United beat Columbiana, 9-2, Monday to end the Clippers’ 56-game Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference winning streak ...

Clippers drop Eagles

Columbiana 6, United 5 HANOVERTON — Columbiana has made things interesting in the Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference baseball race. Facing elimination from league contention if they lost on Monday, the Clippers got an RBI double from Hunter Davanzo in the eighth inning to hand United its first league loss with a 6-5 win. Columbiana is 9-9 overall and 7-2 in the EOAC. United slipped to 12-5 overall and 9-1 in the league. Lisbon also has one league loss. The Eagles will play the Clippers at Firestone Park on Thursday. In the seventh inning, Liam McElwain walked with bases loaded ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

Salem hosts county meet SALEM — The 122nd Columbiana County Track and Field Meet will be held Thursday at Sebo Stadium. Action starts at 4:30 p.m. with the boys discus and high jump, the girls shot put and long jump and the finals in the girls and boys 3200-meter relay. The rest of the running events will follow at 5:15 p.m. The Salem boys and girls are the defending team champions. Mahoning meet today AUSTINTOWN — The 111th Mahoning County Track and Field Meet will be held today at Falcon Stadium. The field events will start at 4:30 p.m. and the running events at 5:15 ...

Salem splits Saturday double dip

SALEM — Aniya Jones had a home run and four RBIs as Salem soared past Jackson-Milton 9-4 on Saturday. Morgane Blaine added three hits, while Morgan Colian had a double and an RBI. Shae Burkhart had a hit and two RBIs. Blaine got the win in the circle with five strikeouts and no walks ...

Quakers own the field

AUSTINTOWN — Salem’s girls track team had a field day on Saturday at the 45th Optimist meet at Austintown Fitch Falcon Stadium. The Quakers won three of the four field events with Madolyn Gorby taking top honors in the high jump (5 feet 2 inches), Chaya Murray in the long jump (15-11) and Maddy Andres in the shot put (36-8 1/4). Peyton Colbert was second in the high jump (5-0), while Andres had a fourth place showing in the discus (108-6). Salem’s boys also did well in field events with Lucas Adams taking first in the long jump (21-3.5) and second in the high jump (6-0). ...