ELYRIA — Having just won its first district title since 2007, Crestview wasn’t about to rest on its laurels on Tuesday in a Division V regional semifinal against Doylestown Chippewa at the Elyria Catholic Coliseum. Having come back from a five-point halftime deficit to tie the game ...
STEUBENVILLE — It was a much-anticipated rematch with the reward of a district final berth to the winner. Beaver Local’s and Carrollton’s boys basketball teams hooked up in an intense, defensive-dominated four-quarter battle in their D4 district semifinal played before a large crowd in the Crimson Center Tuesday night. Fifth-seeded Carrollton took as much as a 16-point fourth-quarter lead and watched fourth-seeded Beaver Local roar back to pull within two possessions (54-50) before the Warriors hit four free throws in the final 1:20 to post a hard-earned 58-56 win over the ...
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 the ECO Center. East Liverpool kept it close in the first quarter, trailing 23-20 as freshman Jayce Douglas scored 12 points. But the Potters scored only 12 points in the final three quarters. Gator Nichols, the Ohio Division IV Player of the Year last season, leads Maysville (23-1) into the ...
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 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 Steele Sr. Salem Jason Pratt Sr. United BOYS SECOND TEAM Luke Rettos Sr. Beaver Local Senator Johnson Jr. Columbiana Brody Conaway Jr. Heartland Aidan Ramgeet Soph. Lisbon Austin Adkins Sr. Wellsville Ty Manion Jr. Salem Drew Bycroft Sr. East Palestine Tyler ...
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 ...
