BARNESVILLE — As he was watching the game go on, St. Clairsville head coach Ryan Clifford honestly believed his team had done a pretty decent job guarding Barnesville senior Luke Powell. Clifford then looked up at the side panel of the scoreboard inside the Barnesville High School ...
HANNIBAL — After matching each other bucket for bucket for most of the first three quarters Friday night, county rivals River and Monroe Central become locked in a defensive tussle in the fourth. There, the Seminoles took advantage of every possession, every loose ball, every rebound, ...
MARTINS FERRY — Derek Edwards was not a happy camper Tuesday night. He left Tolbert Gymnasium in a much better frame of mind Friday night. Three days after his Purple Riders dropped a lopsided verdict to St. Clairsville, Edwards’ charges bounced back to pocket a hard-earned 57-47 win over ...
BELLAIRE — It had been nine days since Harrison Central had played a boys’ basketball game. The long layoff didn’t affect the Huskies one bit. Kobe Mitchell had a quiet 30 points while Sam Santilli (17) and Alexis Flor (10) combined for 27 as the visitors spoiled Bellaire’s home ...
CONNORVILLE — It’s always nice for a team to have an early lead, but more important to have a lead when the final horn sounds. Buckeye Local coach Chris Heaton has proof of the accuracy of that statement. Only two games into the new season, the Panthers have found themselves trailing ...
BEALLSVILLE — Dakota Phillips scored 21 points and Adam Baker had 18 as Beallsville evened its record at 1-1 with a 70-58 victory against Bridgeport on boys’ basketball action Friday night. The Blue Devils led by five at halftime, but stretched their lead to 16 — 55-39 — after three ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Stacey Agnew doesn’t like sitting around. What the St. Clairsville girls’ basketball coach does like is watching his team play defense. After a week off, the Red Devils improved to 2-0 with a defensive-minded, 54-31, triumph over visiting Harrison Central in Buckeye ...
BELLAIRE — Martins Ferry didn’t waste any time Thursday night in showing Bellaire that its time as top dog in Buckeye 8 girls’ hoops might be in jeopardy. The Purple Riders belted the Big Reds with a bevy of haymakers early, jumping out to a double-digit lead after one quarter, ...
MORRISTOWN — Reagan Vinskovich scored 23 points and Hannah Merritt had 17 as Union Local remained unbeaten on the young girls’ basketball seasn with an 81-40 victory against River on Thursday night inside “The Hangar.” Casey Kildow added 15 points for the Jets, while Torre Kildow had ...
Both John Magistro and Jose Davis have been spending a lot of time recently looking at YouTube. Specifically, the former Bellaire head coach and all-state quarterback have been cuing up the videos of the Big Reds’ memorable 1995 season, which culminated with the school’s first ...
WHEELING — Athletic success and Wheeling Park are synonymous. Park — the consolidation of Wheeling, Triadelphia and Warwood high schools — has been a major player on the local and state stage since its inception in 1976. But the zenith of all that Patriot success may have come to ...
MORGANTOWN — Colton McKivitz had just wrapped up dinner with his parents — Matt and Wendy — Wednesday afternoon and was ready to get on the road back to Morgantown when he took a quick glance at his Twitter account. The former Union Local High School standout and now former Mountaineer ...
The Ohio Valley Athletic Conference will be entering unchartered waters this season when the OVAC Ron Mauck Tournament invades downtown Wheeling’s WesBanco Arena for its annual three-day stay in mid-January. For the first time in the tournament’s 66 years the seeding will done by a ...
SHADYSIDE — Serge Gentile knew exactly what he was signing his team up for when Shadyside agreed to play Morgantown. Playing a West Virginia Class AAA opponent, which a perennial power in the state as well as in OVAC Class 5A, is a tall task. Such was the case Wednesday evening when the ...
WOODSFIELD — Trevor Thompson rolled a 266 game, part of a 491 series that helped propel Harrison Central’s boys to a 2,260-1,955 victory against Monroe Central in prep bowling action Wednesday at the Russell Bowling Center. Hunter Stark added a 384 series for the unbeaten Huskies. Brock ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — St. Clairsville has been known for its outside shooting over the years. Entering the second half Tuesday night against Buckeye 8 rival Martins Ferry, the Red Devils hadn’t made a single three-point goal despite holding a 24-19 advantage. That all changed in the second ...
SHADYSIDE - It was opening night for the Shadyside boys’ basketball team Tuesday. It also proved to be a very special night for Tigers’ all-stater Kelly Hendershot. The talented 6-2 senior tossed in a game-high 22 points to lead the Tigers to a lopsided 78-50 win over Steubenville ...
STEUBENVILLE — The 1984 Steubenville football team didn’t just raise the bar for the school’s storied athletic program. Instead, as Hall of Fame coach Reno Saccoccia pointed out recently, it is the bar. Thirty-five seasons ago, Big Red made valley history-becoming the first area Ohio ...
