Three weeks before college basketball’s March Madness gets started, area boys basketball teams tonight begin their postseason, and it’s win or go home — or to baseball/track/tennis/lacrosse practice. The better teams, for the most part, earned byes tonight and won’t start play until ...

CANFIELD — The South Range girls basketball program has long been a successful one with numerous league, sectional and district championships to their name. The list of standout players who have worn the Raider uniform is on full display in their hallways and trophy cases. This season, yet ...

The high school girls basketball sectional tournaments were the appetizers. Now it’s time for the main course. District play begins tonight in Division I and continues Wednesday in Divisions II, III and IV. Top-seeded Warren G. Harding will battle Canfield in a semifinal at 6 p.m. ...

The Boardman High School girls bowling team qualified for the Division I state tournament by placing fourth in the district tournament Sunday at Stonehedge Lanes in Akron. The top five teams and top five individuals not on a qualifying team advanced to state and compete Saturday, March 7 at ...

DIVISION I DISTRICT Girls - Sunday At Stonehedge Lanes, Akron ¯ TEAM SCORING (top 5 to advance state): 1. Perry 3,639, 2. Norton 3,622, 3. Canton McKinley 3,537, 4. Boardman 3,492, 5. Tallmadge 3,441, 6. Berea-Midpark 3,412, 7. Kenston 3,407, 8. Mentor 3,404, 9. Amherst Steele 3,281, 10. ...

Coach Ben Howlett was wrapping up his recruiting class for this current season. He and the rest of the West Liberty University men’s basketball staff were starting to take a look at the class of 2020. An email from a McDonald High School boys basketball coach came through Howlett’s inbox. ...

Division I Ravenna District ¯ SEEDING: 1. Warren G. Harding, 2. Stow-Munroe Falls, 3. Aurora, 4. Canfield, 5. Cuyahoga Falls, 6. Howland, 7. Walsh Jesuit, 8. Austintown Fitch, 9. Hudson, 10. Massillon Perry, 11. Twinsburg, 12. Boardman, 13. Kent Roosevelt. Sectional ...

DIVISION I Canton District ¯ SEEDING: 1. Green, 2. Canton McKinley, 3. Boardman, 4. Canton GlenOak, 5. North Canton Hoover, 6. Wooster, 7. Massillon, 8. Massillon Perry, 9. Dover, 10. Massillon Jackson, 11. Alliance, 12. Uniontown Lake, 13. Austintown Fitch. Sectional first ...

Schedule (Subject to change) TUESDAY, FEB. 25 Boys basketball Div. II sectional first round ¯ Salem at Canfield, 7 ¯ Howland at Ursuline, 7 ¯ Niles at Poland, 7 ¯ East at Girard, 7 ¯ Hubbard at Lakeview, 7 Div. III sectional first round ¯ East Palestine at Cardinal ...

BEAVER TOWNSHIP — South Range came out of the gate with its foot firmly on the gas, putting together a dominant first quarter to push them to a 55-34 win Saturday over East Palestine in a Division III sectional bracket final matchup. “That’s the reason that we play the schedule that we ...