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Area wrestlers advance to districts

More than 100 area wrestlers clinched a spot in a district tournament with a top-four placing at the various sectionals this past weekend. Of those qualifiers, 21 won a sectional title. Across seven different sectional events, Austintown Fitch’s Evan Protopapa, Stephen Medved, Reghan Koch and Yelieishka Perez-Navedo, Canfield’s Gabe Miller, Hubbard’s Markel Hackwelder, West Branch’s Beau Nezbeth, Gavin Hang and Grace Bates, Grand Valley’s Joe Montgomery, Pymatuning Valley’s Bennett Claypoole, South Range’s Ralph Stellato and Tyson Seesholtz, Western Reserve’s Amelia ...

Champion boys place 14th at state bowling tournament

The Division II bowling championships took place on Friday night at HP Lanes in Columbus. The Champion boys took 14th with a score of 3,421. Two locals placed in the top 11 on the boys’ side. Champion senior Mario Humenik finished fifth with a 662 and Chalker sophomore TJ Williams ended the day in 11th with a 645. For the rest of the Golden Flashes, Kyle Kolat scored 571 for 32nd, Gavin Torok was 74th with a 466 and George Smith came in 85th with a 310. The Mahoning Valley did not have a team compete in the girls’ tournament, but there was one individual. Struthers senior ...

High school scoreboard – Feb. 28, 2026

BOYS BASKETBALL Sectional Finals Poland 66, Girard 47 — Poland jumped out to a 15-5 first quarter lead and never let Girard get within reach. Carmine Tukalo scored 31 to lead the Bulldogs. Tukalo knocked down three 3-pointers. Nick Nittoli added a pair of threes for Poland and scored 12 points overall. Braxton Sloan led the Girard offense, scoring 19 points and sinking three 3-pointers. AJ Pearson was the only other Indian in double figures with 10 points. LaBrae 73, Lakeview 70 — Lakeview held a 10-point halftime lead and led 49-42 heading into the fourth quarter but LaBrae ...

Cowboys victorious as defense locks down Cleveland JFK

YOUNGSTOWN — With the way the Chaney boys basketball team plays defense, there’s only one way to describe what the Cowboys put opposing teams through on a nightly basis. It’s 32 minutes of hell. Cleveland John F. Kennedy found that out the hard way on Friday night, as Chaney ran the ...

Canfield downs Avon Lake to win 3rd district title in four years

ELYRIA — In the hectic aftermath of Saturday’s Division III, Northeast 4 girls district final, head coach Matt Reel tried to put into words where Canfield’s senior class stacks up in the program’s decorated history after what it had just accomplished. In passing, assistant coach Pat ...