STEUBENVILLE — Jay Circosta and Terry Snively are no strangers to halls of fame. The two football coaching icons added yet another shrine to their impressive resumes last Sunday. The Ohio Valley Football Coaches Association held its 41st Annual All-Conference Awards Dinner at Steubenville ...
WHEELING - Two prep basketball greats are the latest additions to the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020. Pete Abuls of Cambridge and Don McLane of Steubenville Catholic Central have now had their names called to the shrine, and will represent the decade of the ...
MARTINS FERRY — The Martins Ferry football program has long been known for its running game. But, when Purple Riders head coach Chas Yoder took a look at his 2019 roster, he realized he had a veteran quarterback and a game-breaking wide receiver. Both delivered in a big way, ...
WHEELING — The Marietta football program has had success recruiting Linsly School players in the past. The Pioneers are hoping that trend continues since they recently added another pair of Cadets to their roster. During a ceremony at the school last week, wide receiver Trevin Tush and ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Neither Shadyside’s Ed Andes nor Wheeling Central’s Mel Stephens had to spend a lot of time this week seeking information on the other’s team. To say that Shadyside and Wheeling Central know each other quite well might still be selling them short. After all, the ...
CONNORVILLE — River entered Friday night’s Wheeling Hospital OVAC Boys’ Basketball consolation bracket contest with Buckeye Local facing a decided height disadvantage. As is the case many times in athletics, you can’t judge a team by its size. Instead, the heart and determination it ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Union Local-Fort Frye II. For the second time in two weeks, the top-seeded Jets and No. 3 Cadets will play for the Wheeling Hospital OVAC Class 3A Basketball Championship. This time, however, it will be for the boys title. Union Local (15-5) and Fort Frye (16-3) will tip ...
MARTINS FERRY — Friday night’s Wheeling Hospital OVAC Class 4A boys’ championship consolation tilt between Buckeye 8 rivals Harrison Central and Martins Ferry mirrored a heavyweight bout. The Huskies landed a huge haymaker to start the contest inside Tolbert Gymnasium, but the Purple ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — To say East Liverpool and Meadowbrook are both hungry for a championship wouldn’t be exaggerating it. And the reasons go far beyond the simple fact of accomplishing a goal of winning the OVAC Championship that so many teams set for themselves in November. East ...
BELLAIRE — Bellaire’s basketball team is starting to find its way. As the Big Reds dropped the curtain on the regular season, Friday night, they found themselves on the winning side for the third straight outing. While J.R. Battista is certainly pleased with his team’s 63-57 ...
NEW MANCHESTER — The Oak Glen Fieldhouse is becoming known as the house of thrills. The Golden Bear basketball team rallied from a 14-point halftime deficit to beat St. Clairsville 78-73 Friday night in a Wheeling Hospital OVAC Tournament consolation game. It was a tale of two halves. St. ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — In many ways, Frontier and Madonna are mirror images of each other. The Cougars and Blue Dons, who meet this afternoon at 2 for the 1A crown at the Wheeling Hospital OVAC Boys Basketball Championships, have endured many ups and downs to reach this pinnacle. But while the ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Bobbie Parkinson wasn’t feeling extremely confident after the trio of regular games at Thursday’s Ohio Division II girls’ sectional bowling tournament at St. Clair Lanes. Her Harrison Central squad had just turned in a 703 in Game 3 and entered the six Baker games ...
WHEELING — Sometimes you hear a stat from a sporting event that makes you shake your head. Sometimes one can make you say, ‘wow’ and other times they’re so impressive you question who may have been keeping the stats. All of the above applied to Wheeling University’s Lilly Ritz’s ...
STEUBENVILLE — Steubenville’s girls shot 15 free throws during the fourth quarter of Thursday’s game with Harrison Central. They drained just enough (seven) to squeeze out a 43-40 senior night triumph inside the Crimson Center. “We’ve been on a little bit of a slide the last couple ...
COLUMBUS — St. Clairsville and Martins Ferry extended their swimming seasons to the final weekend Wednesday evening. Both schools qualified at least one competitor to next Thursday’s OHSAA State Swimming Championship in Canton by virtue of a top-two finish at the combined East, ...
MORRISTOWN — Magnolia and Union Local went head-to-head Tuesday night like a pair of heavyweight boxers. Thirty-two minutes of action wasn’t enough for the two Wheeling Hospital OVAC Boys Class 3A Tournament semifinalists. However, after watching the Blue Eagles send the game into the ...
SHADYSIDE - There was good cause for a double celebration in Tiger Town Tuesday night. First, and foremost, Shadyside punched its ticket into Saturday’s Wheeling Hospital’s OVAC 2A championship game at Ohio University Eastern via a hard-earned 65-63 win over Southern Local. The ...
WHEELING — Momentum in basketball games — actually in all sports — can be a funny thing, especially when the teams are relatively even. The momentum in Tuesday night’s OVAC Class 3A semifinal between third-seeded Fort Frye and second-seeded Linsly inside the Stifel Fieldhouse went ...
EAST LIVERPOOL - With seven days to stew over last week’s upset loss to Oak Glen, the East Liverpool Potters took the court for Tuesday’s OVAC 4A semifinal looking very much like they had a point to prove. Behind a smothering defense and a special effort from senior point guard Tresean ...