AUSTINTOWN — Sometimes basketball is as simple as making shots. The Austintown Fitch girls basketball team learned that lesson the hard way on Wednesday. The Falcons left points on the board, while North Royalton capitalized from the field and at the free-throw line. It led to Fitch’s ...
WARREN — While going into the locker room at halftime trailing by a point, Warren G. Harding couldn’t continue their defensive success into the third. Massillon Perry pulled away in the second half, downing the Raiders 52-38 in a Division II, Northeast 1 District semifinal on ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Whether they knew it or not, area students across the Mahoning Valley learned an important lesson from Wednesday’s Youngstown Phantoms game. The details matter. After getting swept by Muskegon over Valentine’s Day weekend, the Phantoms made the most of their final ...
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins will have to start their playoff push without Sidney Crosby. The club placed its longtime captain on injured reserve on Wednesday. The move comes after Crosby sustained a lower-body injury during the Olympic hockey tournament at the Milan Cortina ...
The Youngstown State men’s basketball team never led during Wednesday’s 78-65 road loss to Milwaukee. Although the Penguins battled to tie the Panthers at 41 apiece early in the second half, Milwaukee proceeded to go on a 15-1 run, from which YSU never managed to completely recover ...
MILWAUKEE — Kevin Porter Jr. had 20 points, Ryan Rollins added 18 and the Milwaukee Bucks held off the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers 118-116 on Wednesday night for their fifth victory in six games. The Cavaliers appeared to tie it on Jarrett Allen’s basket underneath at the buzzer, but ...