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Etta Express drops home tilt with Washington and Jefferson

Washington and Jefferson College defeated Marietta College by the score of 14-2 Thursday afternoon at Pioneer Park. The loss drops Marietta to 2-11 on the season, while the Presidents improve to 9-2 overall. Washington and Jefferson scored eight runs in the first four innings. Zac Stern smacked a two-run home run to right in the third innings and Seth Rosenfeld added a solo homer to left in the fourth. Marietta scored both of its runs in the bottom of the fourth. Michael Ciavolella hit his team-leading third home run, a solo shot off the scoreboard in left center, to get the ...

The year that was in high school hoops:

With the Marietta Tigers’ regional semifinal loss to Bishop Watterson last week at “The Convo,” the 2025-2026 high school basketball season came to a close for teams in the valley on the Ohio side of the Ohio River. It’s the perfect time to take a look back at a great hoops ...

Big Walnut’s Sydney Mobley named Ohio’s Ms. Basketball

The first of Sydney Mobley’s 42 offers to play Division I college basketball came when she was in sixth grade, straight from the hometown school in Ohio State. Whether Big Walnut’s star junior forward ultimately ends up a Buckeye remains to be seen, but what stands out to Mobley’s ...

Warren’s Emma Gorrell runner-up at state wrestling tournament

COLUMBUS — A pair of Warren High School wrestlers exited the Jerome Schottenstein Center with medals around their necks over the weekend. Sophomore Emma Gorrell placed runner-up at the Ohio state wrestling tournament while senior Eric Carr finished sixth as the Warrior duo earned All-Ohio ...

MC softball closes Florida trip with two wins

VIERA, Fla. — The Marietta College softball team ended its spring trip with a pair of five-inning mercy rule victories Saturday afternoon at the Space Coast Spring Games. The Pioneers defeated Grinnell College, 10-2, and St. Norbert College, 12-4. Marietta heads north with an 8-4 overall record and on a seven-game winning streak. Grinnell falls to 2-7 on the season and St. Norbert is 1-4 overall. Grinnell scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning and held that lead until the third when the Pioneers tied the game. Kayla O'Malley hit a two-run double for Grinnell. Adisson ...

No. 4 Belhaven edges Etta Express, 7-6

MOUNT BERRY, Ga. — No. 4 ranked Belhaven University rallied late to beat Marietta College by the score of 7-6 Saturday afternoon at the Berry Invitational. Marietta moves to 2-9 on the season, while Belhaven improves to 14-2 overall. The Blazers scored a run in the sixth, two in the seventh and three more in the eighth erasing a 4-1 Marietta lead. With the game tied 4-4 heading into the eighth inning. Belhaven scored on an error and then got a sac fly from Owen Abney and an RBI single from JD Weed for a 7-4 lead. Marietta answered with two runs in the bottom of the frame to get ...