Last season, Maplewood put the area on notice. Adding 10 wins to its win total from the year prior, the Rockets finished the season with a 21-5 mark and a runner-up finish in both the league and district. Returning nine letterwinners from last year, including star sophomore duo Addison Marker ...

BOARDMAN — In 2025, the Boardman softball team surprised many around the area with the program’s best season in more than 20 years. The Spartans earned a share of the vaunted All-American Conference title, won their first district title since 2011 and earned their first regional ...

COLUMBUS — Hubbard’s Markel Hackwelder had a pretty simple thought process going into the 2026 OHSAA state wrestling tournament. “I came into this just knowing, if I win, I place; if I lose, I get to eat faster,” Hackwelder said Friday. Mostly fortunately for him, Hackwelder had to ...

Last season, the McDonald baseball team won its first district championship since 1997. And the Blue Devils don’t plan on waiting nearly 30 years to do it again. Returning all but one player from last season’s group, the Blue Devils are poised to make a return trip. McDonald coach Andy ...

COLUMBUS — Sometimes, it’s just not your match. If he did not know that beforehand, South Range sophomore Ralph “Ralphie” Stellato certainly did after his 106-pound, first-round match at the OHSAA state wrestling tournament on Friday. Stellato, as Raiders head coach Frank Giordano, ...

COLUMBUS — This time last year, Mya Quarles was doing just about anything to be around wrestling except what she wanted to do: actually wrestling. As a junior, Quarles could only get as close as matside to watch as her teammates experienced the joys and disappointments of the sport. She ...