SALEM — The wins have been few and far between for the young Salem boys basketball team this season, but the pieces seem to be starting to fall in place. Led by junior Ty Manion’s 26-point, six-rebound, five-assist night the Quakers outlasted a Girard team with a former Columbiana ...
South Range 65, Beaver Local 50 CALCUTTA — Beaver Local had a big hole in the lineup Tuesday. The Beavers, playing without injured 6-foot-7 All-Ohioan Owen Hill, dropped a 65-50 decision to South Range. The Raiders improve to 12-8 and will close out the regular season by hosting Campbell on Friday and West Branch on Saturday. The Beavers finish the regular season with a 16-6 record. Hill is still battling a foot injury that forced him to miss five games in January and his status for the sectional tournament opener next week is uncertain. Fourth-seeded Beaver Local will host ...
Oak Glen 59, Magnolia 30 MARTINSVILLE, W.Va. —Oak Glen snapped Magnolia’s three-game winning streak with a 59-30 victory in girls basketball play Tuesday. Oak Glen improves to 12-8 and will host St. Marys on Thursday. Magnolia drops to 10-9 heading into Thursday’s game at Cameron. East Palestine 45, Valley 41 EAST PALESTINE — It’s always close when East Palestine plays Valley Christian. The 23rd-seeded Bulldogs went on a 17-5 fourth-quarter run to rally past the 27th-seeded Eagles, 45-41, in a Division VI girls basketball sectional opener Tuesday. All three games ...
SALEM — Salem athletic director Matt Freeman said the school district was caught off guard when it found out that Carrollton, Minerva and Marlington were leaving the Eastern Buckeye Conference for a new league. Like West Branch, Salem heard rumors of the league’s probable demise a week before the official announcement came on Friday. “It seems like it’s no longer about geography or size of the school,” Freeman said. Salem’s athletic department and administration had a meeting with its coaches on Sunday and the path forward will be applying to the Northeast 8. ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Faced with another championship game against Buckeye 8 Athletic League member Cambridge, Beaver Local could not turn the tables on Saturday as the Bobcats grabbed the OVAC Class 4A championship with a 67-56 win over the Beavers at the ECO Center. The Bobcats (20-2) were led by Garrett Carpenter’s 26 points and six rebounds. Cambridge had beaten Beaver Local 71-40 in the Buckeye 8 championship game on the same floor on Jan. 24. The Bobcats used 10 threes in the first half to build a 36-26 advantage at the break, but even though Beaver Local managed to get ...
STEUBENVILLE — Beaver Local junior Cole Long scored wins in the 100-yard backstroke in 54.20 and 200 individual medley in 2:00.84 to advance on Saturday at the Div. II sectional swim meet at Steubenville Natatorium. He also was a part of Beaver’s 200-yard freestyle relay team which won in 1:36.03 and the winning 400 freestyle relay (3:29.44). In girls action, the 200-yard freestyle relay team won in 1:51.51. Only the winner of each event automatically advanced to the district meet set for Friday at Ohio University. There will be 29 at-large qualifiers in individual events ...
