CANTON — West Branch’s girls basketball team combined a smothering defensive performance with a consistent offensive attack to punch its ticket to the Elite 8 following a 45-32 Division IV regional semifinal triumph over Gilmour Academy at the Canton Memorial Fieldhouse Wednesday ...
County Hall of Famers LISBON — The fourth class of the Columbiana County Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame includes six standouts. Ken Cunningham (East Liverpool, Class of 1961); Don Davidson (Salem, 1961); Cheryl Nannah (United, 1979); Lori Montgomery (East Palestine, 1992); Jessica Deville (Leetonia, 2004); and Amy Scullion (Salem, 2010) will be recognized at approximately 6:45 p.m. Sunday during the 39th Columbiana County Classic at Lisbon High School. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students and are only available at the door. Hill returns to East District Beaver Local ...
CAMBRIDGE — The 2025-26 Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association All-East District basketball teams as selected by a media panel from the district: BOYS DIVISION III First Team Santino Haney, Steubenville, 5-11 junior, 22.8; Cole Bowers, Steubenville, 6-1, senior, 14.6; Rob Copple, Dover, 6-0, sr.,15.0; Ryan Lamonica, Tri-Valley, 6-4 sr., 21.0; Lucca Wood, Zanesville, 6-0 jr. 17.0; Reid Wells, New Philadelphia, 5-8, sr., 11.0. Player of the Year: Santino Haney, Steubenville. Coaches of the Year: Mike Haney, Steubenville; Todd McLoughlin, Tri-Valley. Second Team Tre’Von ...
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 ...
