PARKERSBURG — A year after reaching the Class AA state basketball tournament the Ritchie County girls of head coach Dave McCullough are making a return trip to Charleston after the third-seeded Rebels ousted second-seeded Parkersburg Catholic, 65-47, here Wednesday evening in a Class A, ...
Lou Holtz, the College Football Hall of Fame coach who led Notre Dame to the 1988 national championship and won 249 games over 33 seasons at six schools, has died. He was 89. Notre Dame announced on Wednesday that Holtz died in Orlando, Florida, surrounded by his family. Spokeswoman Katy ...
MARTINS FERRY — The last name Isaly and great shooting have seemingly been synonymous with River Pilots basketball for years and years. That tradition continued Tuesday night as River sophomore Crestyn Isaly knocked down eight three-pointers and scored 25 points to lead the No. 3 seeded ...
What a week it was for local high school basketball teams. Several area squads, like the Marietta and Fort Frye boys and the Waterford and Shenandoah girls, kept their seasons alive with big district tournament wins, while other teams bowed out of postseason play. Win or lose, it was hard not to notice some of the individual efforts that really stood out. Here are some shoutouts from The Marietta Times to those players. Shoutout to Frontier junior Jacob Bowersock. —Bowersock had a career night in the Cougars’ tournament-opening win over Shadyside, scoring a career-high 32 ...
OPSMA All-East District Basketball Teams BOYS Division III First Team Santino Haney, Steubenville, 5-11 junior, 22.8; Cole Bowers, Steubenville, 6-1, senior, 14.6; Rob Copple, Dover, 6-0, sr.,15.0; Ryan Lamonica, Tri-Valley, 6-4 sr., 21.0; Lucca Wood, Zanesville, 6-0 jr. 17.0; Reid Wells, New Philadelphia, 5-8, sr., 11.0. Second team Tre’Von Wiggins, Steubenville, 5-11, Sr, 12.9; Dieter Weber, Dover, 6-2, soph.,12.5; Aidan Mushrush, New Philadelphia, 6-4, sr.; Troy Patterson, Tri-Valley, 6-0 sr.,10.9; Ceejay Whitfield, Zanesville, 5-11 sr., 12.0. Special ...
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — Concord’s Abbie Smith has been named the Mountain East Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Year, per a vote of the league’s head coaches. Smith, a senior from Little Hocking, Ohio, and a Warren High School graduate, is averaging 18.8 points per game and ...
