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When Lou spoke, people listened

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When Lou Holtz got ready to speak, it was always a guarantee there were plenty of people ready to listen. The larger-than-life personality of the Follansbee-born, East Liverpool-raised College Football Hall of Fame coach helped him in so many venues – from the gridiron where he won 249 college football games with six teams, including a national championship at Notre Dame in 1988, to the television studio where he became an ESPN staple, and back to the Ohio Valley, where his words of wisdom always were welcome and greatly anticipated. Holtz died Wednesday at age 89 in Orlando, ...

East Liverpool shaped Holtz

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EAST LIVERPOOL — Even as a youngster growing up in East Liverpool, Lou Holtz had a love for the game. “He’d call and say we got a team, we’ll play you Saturday morning,” Bob Duffy said. “He just loved football.” Holtz, a College Football Hall of Fame coach who led Notre Dame ...

End of Rhodes for Rebels

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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 ...

Maysville drops East Liverpool

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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 ...

Beaver Local enjoyed the ride

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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 ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

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Feren led South Range CANFIELD — South Range athletic director Donee Feren died on Saturday at the age of 54. A 1990 graduate of South Range where he played quarterback, Feren began coaching in the district in 2008. In 2009 he was named head softball coach and later went on to be named the athletic director in 2015. Feren had been battling cancer and the school district just had a benefit basketball game for him on Feb. 13.