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Chaney captures district crown by beating Nordonia

WARREN — Junior guard Austin Brown has been around the Chaney boys basketball program for most of his life. His father, Aundra, is an assistant coach and Brown served as a waterboy for the Cowboys when the athletics returned to the school in 2019. This year, Brown has been Chaney’s ...

Lions pounce on Kidron CC to win first district championship

SMITHVILLE – The goal was to make school history. And that is exactly what the Heartland Christian Lions boys’ basketball team accomplished. The third-seeded Lions continued their hot shooting and ferocious defense to throttle the seventh-seeded Kidron Central Christian Comets 82-52, ...

Ursuline falls to Hawken for second straight year

WARREN — The Ursuline boys basketball team’s postseason fate was determined by a familiar foe on Saturday. The Fighting Irish had their season derailed for the second year in a row by Gates Mills Hawken, as Ursuline fell to the Hawks 72-59 in the Division III, Northeast 2, district final ...

McDonald can’t complete comeback vs. Hillsdale

WEATHERSFIELD — McDonald, after going down 22 points in the third quarter of Saturday’s Division VII, Northeast 1, district final, needed everything to go right in the fourth to complete its improbable comeback. A lot did go right for the Blue Devils, but just not everything, and, as a ...

Canfield’s playoff run ends with loss to Copley

CANTON — It’s never easy when the season comes to an abrupt, screeching halt. The Canfield girls basketball team’s decorated senior class found that out the hard way on Wednesday, as the Cardinals’ season came to an end at the hands of Youngstown State-signee Evelyn McKnight and her ...

Bad quarter dooms Western Reserve in 45-33 loss to Seneca East

PERRY HEIGHTS — It was one bad quarter. That’s all it took for Seneca East to take over in Thursday’s girls basketball Division VII regional semifinal. Western Reserve hung with the Tigers in the other three quarters, but it fell 45-33 at Massillon Perry on Thursday evening. “We ...