Two weeks into the high school softball season, South Range, annually among the Mahoning Valley’s best teams, had won just three of its first seven games. A little over three weeks in, the Raiders were still sitting at 6-6 on the year. But head coach Jeff DeRose knew that the record did not ...

YOUNGSTOWN — During her freshman season at Youngstown State in 2023, there was a time when Kennedy Dean thought she might not be cut out to play Division I softball. A Winfield, W.Va., native, Dean first arrived in Youngstown as a well-regarded hitting prospect from the Mountain State after ...

Sometimes the timing just works out. Dan Bubon felt as if his time was winding down at Howland. Holding the head coach position with the Tigers for the last decade, he thought things had probably run their course. Around the same time, the same position for his hometown team opened up. For ...

FROM THURSDAY BOYS LACROSSE Boardman 12, Cardinal Mooney 2 — Boardman honored its seniors by outscoring Mooney 8-0 in the second half. Mikey Montgomery had five ground balls and won 13 of 17 faceoffs for Boardman. Lane Schubert made six saves in goal for the Spartans. Luke DeJoseph and ...

Plastic worms have evolved over the years from the basic nightcrawler-shaped wigglers crafted by inventor Nick Creme in his kitchen in Akron to an array of lures engineered to fit a variety of tactics. Whether fished Texas-style with a small bullet weight; weightless on a wacky rig or any of ...

TORONTO — RJ Barrett hit a 3-pointer with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime and the Toronto Raptors pushed their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series to a seventh game by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 112-110 on Friday night. Evan Mobley had a chance to win it for Cleveland but ...