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JUNIOR HIGH TRACK

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At Columbiana Wednesday BOYS RESULTS TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Columbiana (131), 2. Canfield (56), 3. Southern (51), 4. United (50), 5. Heartland Christian (28), 6. Poland Holy Family (27), 7. Lisbon (24). WINNERS 3200 RELAY: Columbiana (Skyler Dershaw, Morgan Landsberger, Peter Ross, Carson Greene) 10:39.56; 110 HURDLES: Kayson Grant (Columbiana) 19.20; 100 DASH: Nathan Wittenmyer (Heartland) 12.21; 800 RELAY: Canfield (Antonio Abruzere, Brayden Vinion, Mason Cohol, Dean Shalash) 1:50.95; 1600 RUN: Ezra Carlisle (Lisbon) 5:31.89; 400 RELAY: Southern (Ivy Hart, Isaiaha Anderson, Ronnie ...

West Branch lines up for postseason play

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AKRON — West Branch’s girls flag football team completed its regular season at 10-0 and now will look to do some more damage in the playoffs. The Warriors received the No. 3 seed in the Cleveland Browns regional tournament which takes place starting at 5 p.m. Monday at the University of ...

AAC, MAC in mix

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Salem and West Branch have plans in motion for their next league landing spots. The two schools have applied for positions in the Mahoning Valley-based All-American Conference and the Medina, Portage and Summit county-based Metro Athletic Conference. The AAC league affiliation would be for all sports but football, while the MAC would encompass all sports. The Quakers and Warriors have been scrambling to get something done after the collapse of the Eastern Buckeye Conference was made known in March when Carrollton, Minerva and Marlington decided to leave for the new Northeast ...

PREP ROUNDUP

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Beaver Local 4, St. Clairsville 3 ST. CLAIRSVILLLE — Braxton Hickman’s RBI double with one out in the seventh led Beaver Local to a 4-3 win over St. Clairsville in the Buckeye 8 fifth-place baseball game Wednesday. Aiden Dray added two hits for the winners. AJ Bowser was the winning pitcher with a walk and two strikeouts in three innings. Beaver Local is 14-9 and is at Weir on Tuesday. SC: 0-0-1-0-1-1-0—3-6-0 BL: 1-0-0-1-1-0-1—4-8-2 Austintown Fitch10, Columbiana 0 AUSTINTOWN — Columbiana managed just two hits in a 10-0 loss to Austintown Fitch in baseball action ...

COLLEGE ROUNDUP

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Mount Union hosts OAC softball ALLIANCE — The Ohio Athletic Conference Softball Tournament will be held today through Sunday at Mount Union’s 23rd Street Softball Field. The top-seeded Purple Raiders are 29-5 overall and 15-1 in the OAC, the lone loss to Baldwin Wallace on April 8. Area players on the Mount Union roster are senior utility player Sydney Mercer from West Branch, senior shortstop Lydia Brunner from Minerva, sophomore utility player Allison Jones from Western Reserve, sophomore oufielder Lindsay Jones from Western Reserve and junior pitcher Haleigh McCalla from ...

Hiscox, Simmons, Jones post top qualifying marks

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ST. CLAIRSVILLE — United’s Brinsley Hiscox and Taylor Simmons and Southern’s Maddy Jones posted the top marks in the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Class 1A-3A qualifying meet Wednesday. Hiscox topped the Class 3A girls 100-meter hurdles, while Simmons tied for the top spot in the high jump. Jones was first in the Class 1-2A girls shot put. Area teams sent only a few athletes because the Columbiana County Track and Field Meet will be held today in Salem. The top four in the running events and top five in the field events advance Saturday’s OVAC finals at Red Devil Stadium. ...