EAST PALESTINE — The East Palestine Bulldogs may not have shown vast improvement last year in Micheal Demster’s first season at the helm, but they are surely headed in the right direction. They knocked off Leetonia in Week 4 to snap a 16-game losing streak, lost one game by just a ...

WARREN — When Steve Arnold sat down in the offseason to review film of games from 2022, there was a familiar theme with many of Warren G. Harding’s losses. “There were so many times we had a lead late in the second quarter, middle of the third quarter, and we relinquished that lead,” ...

WARREN — Damon Buente has his work cut out for him this season at Warren JFK, but the first-year head coach is up for the challenge. “The expectations here are what they are, and we don’t shy away from them,” Buente said. However, the Eagles are far from the same team that played ...

HOWLAND — With back-to-back subpar seasons, the Howland Tigers football program needed to make a change and did so by hiring Liberty alum Brian Jones. Coming to the program as a new head coach, the Tigers’ skipper knows there’s bound to be some growing pains but wants to change the ...

CORTLAND — For the third time in four seasons, Lakeview is under new management. After Sam Bellino stepped down from the helm of the Bulldogs’ program after two seasons, two-year assistant Derrick Bush was unanimously approved in January to take the reins. The task for the first-time ...

CHAMPION — Entering his third season as head coach, Champion football coach Tom Conrad knows a change is necessary. For the past two seasons, Champion relied on the offensive tandem of Joey Fell and Nick Vesey as a source of the team’s scoring. Since the duo has graduated, Conrad is ...