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Malone heads Southern

SALINEVILLE — New Southern Local head football coach Jimmy Malone has felt the community support for years. “They stepped up four years ago when I was diagnosed with hodgkin’s lymphoma,” he said. “The community and the kids supported me. I felt like this was the time for me to step up and lead the team for the upcoming fall.” Malone was hired as the new head coach by the Southern Local board of education by a 5-0 vote during a special meeting Tuesday night. That came after the board voted to non-renew Zack Almy as head coach. “With the situation we had to deal with last ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

EOAC title game Feb. 11 SALINEVILLE — The Columbiana at Southern Local girls basketball game to decide the Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference champion has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 11. It will be a varsity-only contest beginning at 6 p.m. The game was originally scheduled for Monday and moved to Tuesday due to the snowstorm, but was postponed both days. The Southern girls are 12-0 and Columbiana is 11-1 in EOAC play. They are scheduled to resume EOAC play on Thursday with Southern hosting Wellsville and Columbiana visiting Lisbon. Meet YSU’s quarterback NILES — A ...

AROUND THE HORN

Potters get an assist EAST LIVERPOOL — The East Liverpool bowling team got a helping hand from the Beaver Local school district on Saturday at the OVAC bowling tournament in Morgantown, West Virginia. East Liverpool was experiencing bus trouble, so Beaver Local volunteered to take the Potter bowling team back home with the big winter storm looming. The East Liverpool School District thanked Beaver Local on Facebook for the assist. Southern game won’t be on TV SALINEVILLE — The Columbiana at Southern girls basketball game set for today will not be broadcast on WKBN. ...

Bobcats claw Beaver Local

Cambridge 71, Beaver Local 40 ST. CLAIRSVILLE — It was a banner day for Cambridge and senior guard Garrett Carpenter on Saturday. Carpenter scored 34 points, including the 1,000th of his career, as Cambridge topped Beaver Local, 71-40, in the Buckeye 8 championship game at the ECO Center. The Bobcats won their seventh in a row to improve to 16-2. The Beaver dropped to 13-3 after suffering their largest loss since falling 86-44 at East Liverpool on Dec. 8, 2023. Cambridge scored the first seven points of the game and opened up a 38-21 halftime lead. Carpenter — who came in ...

West Branch claims EBC title

West Branch 30, Carrollton 27 BELOIT — The West Branch girls can’t be beat in the Eastern Buckeye Conference. West Branch captured its third straight EBC title with a 30-27 victory over Carrollton on Saturday. West Branch has won 30 straight league games and have 18 league titles in the last 31 years. Carrollton led 5-2 in the first quarter, but West Branch held the scoring edge in each of the last three quarters for the victory. West Branch improves to 15-2 overall and 9-0 in the EBC and will close out league play at Salem on Wednesday. Carrollton drops to 12-6 overall ...

McGonigal has nothing to fear

CANAL FULTON — East Liverpool junior Alannah McGonigal recorded three pins in 4:06 to highlight the Fear the Spear girls wrestling tournament Saturday at Northwest High School. McGonigal captured the 170-pound title by pinning Fairless senior Kaitlynn Berresford in 2:38 in the championship match. The Potters tied seventh out of 44 teams with 75 points. Also for the Potters, junior Paige Cowan was second at 125 pounds and junior Keira Coil was fourth at 145 pounds. United was ninth in the team standings with 69 points and West Branch was 11th with 50 points. United had a pair of ...