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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PERRY HEIGHTS — The buzzer sounded, the Maplewood girls basketball team ran onto the court and the cheers erupted from the Rockets’ side of the Massillon Perry gymnasium. Maplewood not only beat Warren JFK in a Division VII regional semifinal on Thursday, but the Rockets punched their ...