Beaver Local outduels Fitch CALCUTTA — Beaver Local’s wrestling team turned in a 41-29 dual win over Austintown Fitch on Wednesday. Jordan Bates, John Burkett, Matthew Tomaino, Bobby Buchheit and Jake Hughes had pins for the winners. “I’m really proud of our guys tonight. We knew ...
WELLSVILLE — Shawn Carter, the quarterback on Wellsville’s 1994 Division V state runner-up team, is taking over as the Tigers’ new head football coach. Carter, who works as a chef at Franciscan University in Steubenville, is expected to be officially named at Monday’s board of education meeting. A 1995 graduate and a member of the Wellsville Athletic Hall of Fame, Carter has extensive coaching experience at Wellsville. He served as an assistant under Derrick Spann from 2016-18, then spenct four seasons as offensive coordinator under Moose Ramsey from 2019-22. He returned as ...
SALEM — The wins have been few and far between for the young Salem boys basketball team this season, but the pieces seem to be starting to fall in place. Led by junior Ty Manion’s 26-point, six-rebound, five-assist night the Quakers outlasted a Girard team with a former Columbiana ...
East Palestine 45, Valley Christian 41 EAST PALESTINE — It’s always close when East Palestine plays Valley Christian. The 23rd-seeded Bulldogs went on a 17-5 fourth-quarter run to rally past the 27th-seeded Eagles, 45-41, in a Division VI girls basketball sectional opener Tuesday. All three games the two teams played this season were decided by four points or less with East Palestine winning two of them. East Palestine (11-12) advances to play second-seeded Canton Central Catholic (17-5) in a sectional final at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Crusaders opened the season with 10 straight ...
South Range 65, Beaver Local 50 CALCUTTA — Beaver Local had a big hole in the lineup Tuesday. The Beavers, playing without injured 6-foot-7 All-Ohioan Owen Hill, dropped a 65-50 decision to South Range. The Raiders improve to 12-8 and will close out the regular season by hosting Campbell on Friday and West Branch on Saturday. The Beavers finish the regular season with a 16-6 record. Hill is still battling a foot injury that forced him to miss five games in January and his status for the sectional tournament opener next week is uncertain. Fourth-seeded Beaver Local will host ...
SALEM — Salem athletic director Matt Freeman said the school district was caught off guard when it found out that Carrollton, Minerva and Marlington were leaving the Eastern Buckeye Conference for a new league. Like West Branch, Salem heard rumors of the league’s probable demise a week before the official announcement came on Friday. “It seems like it’s no longer about geography or size of the school,” Freeman said. Salem’s athletic department and administration had a meeting with its coaches on Sunday and the path forward will be applying to the Northeast 8. ...
