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Southern shoots for perfect season

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SALINEVILLE — Southern Local’s girls basketball team is set to go for an outright Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference title and the school record for wins in a season on Wednesday as the Indians host Columbiana. The Indians are 21-0 after a 49-40 win over Caldwell on Saturday in the OVAC Class 2A final at the ECO Center. It was the first OVAC championship for the school. Columbiana (17-4) can earn a share of the league title with a win. The game is set to begin at 7 p.m. and will be televised live at the WKBN Game of the Week on MyYTV. Against Caldwell on Saturday, Allyssaa ...

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State champs in Columbiana COLUMBIANA — Defending Division VI state champion Woodsfield Monroe Central will play at Columbiana tonight in an OVAC Class 3A boys basketball semfinal. Monroe Central is 14-3 with losses in two of their last three games (66-60 to Wheeling Central and 63-54 to Caldwell). The Seminoles have lost six games the past two seasons, four against Wheeling Central, the defending West Virginia Class AA state champion which is unbeaten this season. Today’s junior varsity game will start at 6 p.m., followed by the varsity game at approximately 7:30 p.m. Watson ...

Creek has Oak Glen’s number

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WINTERSVILLE — About 48 hours after meeting with a trophy on the line, Oak Glen and Indian Creek were back on the court facing off again. After fending off the Golden Bears for the OVAC championship on Saturday night, the Redskins came out Monday night at home with a lot of energy and never trailed on the way to a 44-28 repeat victory in a makeup game on Coach D Court. Creek (17-4) opened the game on a 12-2 run and led by 10 at halftime, shooting 50 percent in the first half. “I was really proud of the energy we came out with,” Indian Creek head coach Steve Eft said. ...

Southern wins first OVAC

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Southern 49, Caldwell 40 ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Southern Local girls basketball team is making history. The top-seeded Indians won their first Ohio Valley Athletic Conference championship by topping second-seeded Caldwell, 49-40, in a Class A final Saturday at the ECO Center. Southern improved to 21-0, tying the school record for wins in a season. Allyssa Shrodes led the charge with 27 points, shooting 6-of-12 from three-point range. Katie Kellogg totaled 11 points, seven rebounds, seven steals and five assists. The Indians scored the first 13 points of the game before the ...

Golden Bears stuck in Creek

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ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Saturday inside Ohio University Eastern’s ECO Center was the third championship in four years involving the Oak Glen Golden Bears and Indian Creek Redskins. Thanks to a late scoring run, all three contests have gone to Indian Creek. Indian Creek’s girls basketball team secured a fourth-straight OVAC Class 4A championship on Saturday, defeating rival Oak Glen 45-38 on the back of a clutch 11-1 scoring run to end the fourth quarter in a game where the Golden Bears had consistently clung onto a small lead before the pivotal final frame. “We were able to execute ...

Landess twins on way to district

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WARREN — Wellsville junior twins Makayla and Madelyn Landess advanced as individuals and the Crestview boys and girls bowling teams advanced out of the Division II sectional tournament at Freeway Lanes on Sunday. Makayla Landess captured the sectional title with 572 series (187-206-179), eight pins better than Struthers senior Maddie Marshall. Madelyn Landess was 12th with a 443 seres (153-128-162). The Crestview girls were second in the team standings with 2,982 pins. The other district qualifying teams were Lakeview (3178), Hubbard (2036), Struthers (1976) and LaBrae ...