Five weeks ago, Girard and Poland met in one of the most highly anticipated, important and thrilling games of the season for both teams. On Oct. 10, two minutes after the Bulldogs took a fourth-quarter lead, Indians sophomore quarterback AJ Pearson rushed for the game-winning touchdown and ...

When the 2025 high school football season began with conditioning back in July, coaches and players were met with temperatures which, at times, reached past 90 degrees with high humidity. When area playoff teams took to the practice field earlier this week, they did so while the Mahoning ...

AUSTINTOWN — Austintown Fitch softball players Abby Toth and Kylie Folkwein formally signed with the University of Detroit Mercy and Syracuse University, respectively, on Wednesday. The senior athletes, who were part of the Falcons’ 2023 and 2024 Division I state championship-winning ...

LEETONIA — Chalker came up just short of its ultimate goal, falling, 34-20, to Sandusky St. Mary in the 8-man football state championship game on Saturday. “They played their butts off,” Wildcats coach Justin Kren said. “It just didn't come out how we needed. We made a few mistakes, ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Emerging from a two-week layoff, it took a while for first-seeded Cardinal Mooney to get going in Friday’s Division V regional quarterfinal vs. No. 8 South Range. But when the Cardinals got going, they really got going. After a scoreless opening quarter and surrendering the ...

AUSTINTOWN — Coming off a bye week in the first round of the Division II, Region 5 playoffs, Austintown Fitch got off to a bit of a sleepy start on Friday night. Despite falling into an early double-digit hole, the Falcons eventually woke up, as they forced two key turnovers in the second ...