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Season over for county's last baseball team

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STRUTHERS — Crestview was the only Columbiana County baseball team to make it to a district final this season and the Rebels had only one senior.  While the future looks bright for Rebel baseball the present belonged solely to the No. 5 seed Poland Bulldogs in a 14-0 no-hit win in five innings on Friday in a Div. V district final at Cene Park. "They won in all aspects of the game," Crestview coach Todd Kibby said. "All credit goes to them. They were prepared and they earned it."  Crestview starter Kyle Booth lasted nine batters and only recorded one out as Poland had seven runs ...

SPORTS BRIEFING

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GUARDIANS GET TO RED SOX EARLY CLEVELAND (AP) — Angel Martínez had an RBI single during Cleveland's four-run first and made a key defensive play in the second inning as the Guardians held on for a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. Cleveland's Chase DeLauter and Kyle Manzardo broke out of slumps with two hits apiece. Caleb Durbin had an RBI double in the fifth inning for the Red Sox. They have dropped six of seven. Colin Holderman (3-0), the second of six Guardians' pitchers, got the win with 1 1/3 innings of hitless ball. Starter Slade Cecconi allowed three ...

Jones carries the county Div. 4 banner

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AUSTINTOWN — Southern Local senior Maddy Jones will carry the Columbiana County banner at the Division IV state track and field meet. Jones was third in the shot put Wednesday and no county athletes got through the Austintown Division IV regional finals Friday. Jones topped the first ...

Grim delivers county's first state tennis title

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MASON — Columbiana County has its first state tennis champion. Heartland Christian junior Cooper Grim won two matches on Friday at the Lindner Family Tennis Center to win the Div. II state singles championship. After a marathon 7-5, 6-7, 6-1 win over Pepper Pike Orange junior Ilya ...

Oak Glen runs out of gas in pursuit of repeat

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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Oak Glen knew it faced a daunting task if it were to repeat as West Virginia Class AA state softball champions on Friday at Little Creek Park. The Golden Bears would have had to win four straight games but that proved to be too much of a hurdle to clear as the ...

Beavers, Potters on the right track

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NEW CONCORD — East Liverpool senior Kailyn Kirby did not clear a height on Thursday in the Div. III regional girls high jump final at Muskingum University. Kirby was the only East Liverpool or Beaver Local athlete competing in a final on Thursday. East Liverpool's Meshach Harris (110-meter hurdles, 300 hurdles) and Loyd Hendershot (400) advanced out of the prelims to Saturday's finals. Beaver Local's Landon Wheatley also advanced to the finals of the 300 hurdles. Beaver Local's 400, 800 and 1600 boys relay teams also qualified for Saturday's finals. BOYS PRELIMINARY ...