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Massillon wins first basketball state title DAYTON — The Massillon boys basketball team reached the state tournament for the first time in 81 years and came home with its first state championship Sunday. The Tigers rallied from a 15-point deficit late in the third quarter to beat defending Division II state champion Westerville North in a 68-63 overtime thriller in front of 4,642 fans at University of Dayton Arena. Massillon’s previous best finish was as state runner-up in 1937 under coach Paul Brown, better known as a football coach. Trailing 45-30 with less than 2 1/2 minutes ...

Penn State rules Cleveland

CLEVELAND (AP) — Mitchell Mesenbrink and Levi Haines each won their second individual championship Saturday to help Penn State win its fifth consecutive team title at the NCAA men’s wrestling championships. Penn State, which clinched the team title during the consolation matches earlier Saturday, finished with four national champions and a record 181.5 points, breaking its own mark of 177 set last year. The Nittany Lions have won 13 of the last 15 national championships. Attendance totaled 103,050 for the three-day tournament at Rocket Arena, including 17,845 for the championship ...

MORNING JOURNAL 2025-26 ALL-AREA BOYS BASKETBALL

MORNING JOURNAL 2025-26 ALL-AREA BOYS BASKETBALL FIRST TEAM Player Ht. Class School Owen Hill 6-7 Sr. Beaver Local Collin Kalaher 5-11 Jr. Heartland AJ Ramgeet 6-1 Sr. Lisbon Cooper Brown 6-4 Sr. Columbiana Jeremiah Thomas 5-10 Sr. West Branch Gavin Gregory 6-7 Sr. West Branch HONORABLE MENTION Luke Rettos Matthew Anderson (Beaver Local); Senator Johnson, Hunter Davanzo (Columbiana); Tyler Savage (Crestview); Tyler Kirby, Jayce Douglas (East Liverpool); Drew Bycroft (East Palestine); Brody Conaway, Isaiah Matthews (Heartland Christian); Ethan Mathia ...

Rebels apply to leagues

COLUMBIANA — Crestview’s athletic department has known the days of the Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference Gray Division were numbered and this week it was confirmed with the departure of the remaining Trumbull County teams from the league by the end of the next school year. The Rebels are now the only school left standing in the MVAC Gray Division and it is trying to develop a plan to secure some kind of league membership by the time the 2026-2027 school year ends. Crestview athletic director Casey Bogerd knows the district is in a tight spot but he’s hoping some ...

Next stop for Warriors, Quakers

The aftermath of the demise of the Eastern Buckeye Conference is in motion but it might take some time for the teams left behind to figure out their next stops. The first move after Minerva, Carrollton and Marlington decided to bolt for the new Northeast Senate League for both Salem and West Branch was to apply for the Northeast 8. That did not work. The league officially said it would stay at seven teams last Friday. Salem athletic director Matt Freeman and West Branch athletic director Ryan Wolf said the school districts received no reason why the Northeast 8 turned them down ...

Steubenville ends up in the red

DAYTON — The dream came one shot short. After trailing by 10 points in the second half, Steubenville Big Red came all the way back to lead Friday’s Division III state championship game in the final minute. Trotwood-Madison, though, took the lead on a late bucket from Darius Dennis on a ...