×

Local Sports

Area wrestlers advance to districts

More than 100 area wrestlers clinched a spot in a district tournament with a top-four placing at the various sectionals this past weekend. Of those qualifiers, 21 won a sectional title. Across seven different sectional events, Austintown Fitch’s Evan Protopapa, Stephen Medved, Reghan Koch ...

Champion boys place 14th at state bowling tournament

The Division II bowling championships took place on Friday night at HP Lanes in Columbus. The Champion boys took 14th with a score of 3,421. Two locals placed in the top 11 on the boys’ side. Champion senior Mario Humenik finished fifth with a 662 and Chalker sophomore TJ Williams ended ...

High school scoreboard – Feb. 28, 2026

BOYS BASKETBALL Sectional Finals Poland 66, Girard 47 — Poland jumped out to a 15-5 first quarter lead and never let Girard get within reach. Carmine Tukalo scored 31 to lead the Bulldogs. Tukalo knocked down three 3-pointers. Nick Nittoli added a pair of threes for Poland and scored 12 ...

West Branch comes back to beat Streetsboro for first district title since 2022

LORDSTOWN — Walt DeShields and the West Branch girls basketball program had earned “a couple silvers” in the district tournament the last two years, when the Warriors, despite more than 20 wins on their resume, fell in the championship game. Saturday’s Division IV, Northeast 2 district ...

Canfield downs Avon Lake to win 3rd district title in four years

ELYRIA — In the hectic aftermath of Saturday’s Division III, Northeast 4 girls district final, head coach Matt Reel tried to put into words where Canfield’s senior class stacks up in the program’s decorated history after what it had just accomplished. In passing, assistant coach Pat ...

Cowboys victorious as defense locks down Cleveland JFK

YOUNGSTOWN — With the way the Chaney boys basketball team plays defense, there’s only one way to describe what the Cowboys put opposing teams through on a nightly basis. It’s 32 minutes of hell. Cleveland John F. Kennedy found that out the hard way on Friday night, as Chaney ran the ...