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Indians grab EOAC

Southern 75, Wellsville 19 SALINEVILLE — The job is only half done for the Southern girls basketball team. The Indians captured a share of the Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference title by downing Wellsville, 75-19, Thursday. Southern improves to 19-0 overall and 13-0 in the EOAC, one game ahead of Columbiana. Southern will host Columbiana on Feb. 11 and needs a win to clinch sole possession of the league crown. It is the Indians’ second league title since 1990 and eighth overall. Southern started its four seniors — Allyssa Shroades, Haylee Kellogg and twins Makenna Jones and ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

Landess pushes Tigers over the top CHAMPION — Madelyn Landess rolled three strikes in the 10th frame of the third and final baker game to give Wellsville a 2,138-2,112 win over Warren JFK at Champion Lanes on Thursday. The Tigers — who finished sixth in the OVAC Class 1-2A tournament on Saturday — improve to 16-1 on the season. Madelyn Landess led the Tigers with a 213 game and 399 series. Makayla Landess had a 187 game and 359 series and Cameron Taylor a 179 game and 357 series. Wellsville will play East Liverpool and Beaver Local at Walnut Lanes on Wednesday. Crestview ...

Girls hoops collapse is nationwide

NEWELL, Iowa — The streets of Newell and Fonda are quiet. Rural decline has taken a toll on these northwest Iowa towns with main street storefronts shuttered and vacant houses scattered here and there. Yet the heart of these communities separated by 9 miles isn’t hard to find. It still beats at the Newell-Fonda High School gym, where many of Newell’s 850 residents, Fonda’s 600 and folks from surrounding farms dress in blue and fill it up to cheer on their beloved girls basketball team that is known across Iowa. With 21 of the school’s 71 girls in grades 9-12 playing on the ...

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. ...