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Three indoor state champions

GENEVA, Ohio — Three Columbiana County boys captured state championships at the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Association 2026 indoor high school state track and field meet at the SPIRE Institute on Friday and Saturday. Salem senior Lucas Adams won the Division II long jump, while East Liverpool senior miler Maddox Roach and Beaver Local junior high jumper Landon Wheatley captured Division III titles. Adams — who finished ninth at the outdoor state meet in June — topped the Division II long jumpers with a personal-best leap of 22-feet-11 1/4. Columbiana ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

Heartland plays tonight BARBERTON — The third time was the charm for the Heartland Chrisitian boys basketball team. The Lions captured their first district title after a third straight trip to the district finals. Fourth-seeded Heartland (21-4) opens regional play against second-seeded Fairport Harding (22-2) at 6 p.m. today at Barberton High School. Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for students. Heartland beat Fairport Harding, 69-66, in a district semifinal last season before losing to Jeromesville Hillsdale, 73-54. In today’s nightcap, fifth-seeded Jeromesville ...

Lions have heart of a champion

SMITHVILLE — The goal was to make school history. And that is exactly what the Heartland Christian Lions boys basketball team accomplished. The third-seeded Lions continued their hot shooting and ferocious defense to throttle the seventh-seeded Kidron Central Christian Comets 82-52, ...

Gators take a bite out of Branch

CANTON — The West Branch girls basketball team hung on for as long as it could. But that wasn’t enough on Saturday afternoon at Canton Memorial Fieldhouse. The Warriors couldn’t keep up with state power Shaker Heights Laurel, falling to the Gators 53-41 in a Division IV regional ...

Ten area boys qualify for state wrestling tournament

GALLIPOLIS — Beaver Local produced two champions on Saturday at the Div. II district wrestling tournament at Gallia Academy High School. Freshman Jordan Bates topped New Lexington’s Brody McNabb 9-4 in the 106-pound bout and improved to 44-2 on his way to his first state tournament berth. Sophomore Jake Hughes, ranked 16th in the country by FloWrestling, scored a 3-1 victory over West Holmes’ Louden Dixon in the 157-pound final. Dixon (40-6) had beaten Hughes (41-4) at sectionals. Beaver Local senior Bobby Buchheit reached the final at 150 pounds byt was defeated 4-3 by ...

Rhodes ranks with county’s best

LISBON — Crestview senior Addison Rhodes has another trophy to add to her collection on the wall at home. “There are four rows of them,” she said. Rhodes scored 37 points with nine three-pointers in leading her away team to an 84-47 win at the Columbiana County Classic on Sunday ...