CHAMPION — Heading into Friday’s game against Champion, Brookfield was battling for a home playoff spot. Needing a win to have a chance, the Warriors did just that, beating the Golden Flashes 20-7 in the regular season finale. Brookfield quarterback Donovan Pawlowski was a threat in the ...

NORTH JACKSON — A year ago, the McDonald Blue Devils and the Jackson-Milton Blue Jays met in the opening round of the playoffs. A year later, graduation and injuries hampered a lot of what each team would have liked to have accomplished, but McDonald rode the legs of Nathan Giilligan to ...

NEWTON FALLS — It is difficult to pull out a victory when you never force your opponent to punt one time during a game. But that didn’t prevent Newton Falls from giving it a try Friday night when Crestview came calling. In the end, the Rebels pulled away to beat the Tigers 48-20 in a ...

BOARDMAN — When it’s a rivalry game, toss out the records, ignore the past, and just focus on the task at hand. Canfield, a team that has cruised through the last seven weeks, found a bump in the road Friday evening during their season finale at Boardman. Despite being shutout during the ...

GREENFORD — In the short history of the Northeast 8 Conference, the South Range Raiders have made quite a name for themselves. Friday night, the Raiders stonewalled the undefeated Hubbard Eagles 34-0 to claim their second consecutive NE8 crown and firmly cemented themselves in the OHSAA ...

McDONALD — At McDonald, it seems year in and year out, the athletic programs are always successful and doing well as just this past year the girl’s basketball team and the boy’s track team were state runner-ups in their respective divisions. Three years ago, McDonald decided to start up ...