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Liberty bests Brookfield to improve to 5-0

BROOKFIELD — A handful of plays made the difference, but they certainly made quite a bit of difference, in Liberty’s 28-8 road win over Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference rival Brookfield, which took an early lead but later suffered from several ill-timed penalties and mistakes against ...

Reardon leads high-scoring Ursuline past Warren G. Harding

WARREN — Ursuline’s offense is a different animal with sophomore quarterback Patrick Reardon taking snaps, and the Irish showed why on Friday night. Ursuline put up almost 450 total yards of offense, pulling away from Warren G. Harding in the second half for a 40-7 victory over the ...

St. Mary’s Hall to host Fight Night this evening

YOUNGSTOWN — A 15-bout, all-amateur fight card is set for tonight at St. Mary’s Byzantine Hall in Youngstown. Presented by Lights Out Management and in conjunction with Golden String Boxing, their Fight Night in the YO No. 8 show will feature 11 boxers representing four area gyms on the card. The main event will pit Alan Williams of Shenango, Pa.’s, Royal Lions Boxing Club as he goes up against Jesse Urbina of Toledo (Warriors Boxing Club) in a 143-pound pairing, while the co-main features Youngstown’s Isaac Johnson (Golden String Boxing Club) taking on Sule Lunde of Maple ...

Every lure has a story to tell

Once upon a time, a 10-year-old boy stepped to the bank of his neighborhood creek with a single rod and reel spooled with fishing line of unknown vintage, a rusty hook, a few split shot and a cup of garden worms freshly dug a few minutes before he set out for the creek. The young fellow was ready for anything – or at least whatever swam in the runs between the riffles. He was a happy fisher. His frequent visits to the banks of the creek were the building blocks for the foundation of his lifelong passion for fishing. Decades later, the happy fisher boy is a happy fisherman, and I ...

Ramírez homers, reaches 1,000 RBIs as Guardians down A’s

CLEVELAND — José Ramírez and rookie Travis Bazzana homered and Joey Cantillo pitched six scoreless innings as the Cleveland Guardians rallied to beat the Athletics 5-3 on Friday night and stay atop the AL Central. Ramírez connected in the sixth inning to give the Guardians a two-run ...

No. 6 Ohio St. shifts focus to Kent St. after devastating loss at Texas

COLUMBUS — Ohio State is on to Saturday’s game against Kent State, even though most fans of the sixth-ranked Buckeyes are still fuming about last Saturday’s 24-23 loss to No. 1 Texas. “A lot of people’s days are made or break on a three-hour game, and we don’t want that anymore ...