WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. — The Mountain East Conference began competition in 2013. In men’s basketball, no MEC team had ever won both the conference regular season championship and the tournament championship. That changed this season when head coach Ben Howlett’s West Liberty Hilltoppers ...
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The No. 15 ranked Etta Express won a pair of games Friday in the Snowbird Classic giving head coach Brian Brewer his 600th career coaching victory. Marietta blanked Bridgewater State University, 11-5, and then beat Susquehanna University, 8-0. Marietta improved to ...
CLERMONT, Fla. — The Marietta College softball team earned a pair of wins on their final day in Florida when they defeated Montclair State and Wooster on Friday afternoon. The Pioneers beat the Red Hawks 1-0 in game one, and took game two over the Fighting Scots, 4-1. With the pair of ...
As the fourth-quarter clock wound down in Fort Frye’s 49-31 regional triumph over second-ranked Portsmouth Notre Dame last Saturday night at Pickerington North, Cadet head coach Dan Liedtke was able to sub for the five starters. When it came time for Kiersten Kesselring, Liv Schneider, ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center rarely cozies up to any team when it comes to hitting baskets during the state tournament. The rims are unforgiving and more than one deserving has been sent home after an off shooting day or night. Yet, Parkersburg ...
BEVERLY — Unranked Fort Frye has defeated two straight OHSAA Division IV Top 10-ranked girls basketball teams on its journey to the Final Four. The Cadets are hoping to make it three in row when they play No. 8 Minster in a semifinal at 8 p.m. Thursday at St. John Arena in ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — The mantra of the 2019-20 Williamstown Yellowjackets is to spread the ball and make opponents defend multiple shooters. They used that method to punch their ticket to Charleston. Xavier Caruthers led the maroon and gold with 17, as Peyton Amrine (16 points) and Eli Inman (13 ...
WHEELING, W.Va. — Championship teams are able to make the plays when the game is on the line. Wheeling Central did just that Wednesday night, displaying unwavering poise in the final minutes to pull out a hard-earned 71-67 win over a quality St. Marys squad on Skip Prosser Court before a ...
PARKERSBURG — Returning to the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center for the third year in a row, No. 2 Parkersburg Catholic will be facing off against a familiar foe in No. 7 Tucker County in the Class A state girls quarterfinal at 1 p.m. today. Coming into the state tournament ...
PARKERSBURG — With one year left in Class A basketball, Huntington St. Joe and head coach Shannon Lewis are looking to go out like they usually do, on top. The defending state champions and top-seeded 22-1 Irish open play at 5:30 p.m. today in Charleston against No. 8 seed St. Marys, which ...
As a kid, Dan Liedtke used to imagine himself on Ohio State’s St. John Arena basketball court in front of hundreds of fans at the state tournament. When Liedtke guided the Fort Frye boys to the Final Four in 1999, he was excited to finally get that opportunity. Little did he know, the ...
VINCENT — Peyten Kellar has his eyes on the prize. The Warren High mat standout is the last wrestler standing in Washington County, and the junior captain is hoping that will also be the case at the completion of this weekend’s 83rd annual Ohio state tournament at the Jerome Schottenstein ...
PICKERINGTON, Ohio — Dan Liedtke and the Fort Frye Cadets are going back to state. Fort Frye took down Notre Dame, the second-ranked team in Division IV, 49-31 in Saturday’s regional final at Pickerington North. The Cadets got 13 points from Lexie Huck, 12 from Kenzie Dalton, eight ...
PICKERINGTON — After the opening tip-off, Fort Frye sophomore Hannah Archer got the ball and both teams started towards the Portsmouth Notre Dame Titans basket. Everyone except Kiersten Kesselring. She went the other, right way. “We’re not used to winning tips,” smiled the 5-foot-9 ...
PICKERINGTON — After the opening tip-off, Fort Frye sophomore Hannah Archer got the ball and both teams started towards the Portsmouth Notre Dame Titans basket. Everyone except Kiersten Kesselring. She went the other, right way. “We’re not used to winning tips,” smiled the 5-foot-9 ...
ASHLAND, Va. — Marietta College got off to slow starts in both halves. The Jon VanderWal-coached Pioneers recovered during the first 20 minutes but not in the second half en route to an 89-73 setback to The College of New Jersey Friday in an opening-round NCAA Division III men’s basketball ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — It took a second-half surge, but Williamstown pulled away at home to win the Class A Region IV, Section I championship over visiting Parkersburg Catholic in a 64-42 win on Friday night. The result sets the two teams on different paths in order to get to the state tournament in ...
Two members of the Fort Harmar Rifle Club Junior Rifle Team have qualified for the Junior Olympics. Derek Keiser, 18, qualified for the fourth time while Garrett Shipley, 14, made it for the first time. Both placed well enough at the olympic qualifier at West Virginia University to earn their ...
Defense was the name of the game for the St. Mary Catholic eighth grade girls basketball team this season. The Irish imposed their will on opposing teams, surrendering just 16 points per game en route to a perfect 18-0 season and a Washington County championship. “We concentrated on ...
NEW CONCORD — Morgan needed to take advantage of every single opportunity they were given to have any hope at all of upsetting top-seeded Ridgewood Friday night in the Division III District championship game at Muskingum College. Unfortunately for the Raiders, an inconsistent night shooting ...