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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
LISBON — Beaver Local’s Owen Hill and Crestview’s Addison Rhodes made their senior seasons their best ones yet. They repeated as Columbiana County players of the year in balloting by coaches Sunday. Hill is joined by Lisbon senior AJ Ramgeet and Heartland Christian junior Collin ...
