Austintown Fitch (3-0) at Warren G. Harding (1-2) WHEN: Friday, 7 p.m. WHERE: Mollenkopf Stadium, Warren LAST MEETING: 2018, Harding won, 49-14 LAST WEEK: Fitch 49, GlenOak 27; Massillon 49, Harding 7 COACHES: Jon Elliot, Fitch; Steve Arnold, Harding ABOUT FITCH: The Falcons ...

LORDSTOWN — Coaches often say that injuries should never be used as an excuse. Still, “what could have been” does come into play when your top player, Lordstown’s Lexie Ensign, who scored 32 goals last season and was named second-team All-State in Division III, is keeping stats ...

Boardman, Brookfield and McDonald won boys golf league titles on Wednesday, with the Warriors sending a message as postseason play nears. Brookfield shot a 320 at Youngstown Country Club to win the All-American Conference Blue Tier crown by 70 strokes over runner-up Champion. The Warriors ...

All-American Conference Independent Tier Team All games W-L Pts Opp Austintown Fitch 3-0 124 60 Canfield 2-1 97 54 Boardman 1-2 48 104 Harding 1-2 90 81 Howland 1-2 51 70 Friday ¯ Austintown Fitch at Warren G. Harding, 7 ≤ Howland at Boardman, 7 ≤ ...

Volleyball POLAND 3, NILES 0 Poland 25 28 25 Niles 18 26 14 ¯ LEADING SERVERS: N – Jenna Melius 6. ¯ ACES: P – Maddie Wesson 3; N – Melius 1. ¯ ASSISTS: P – Wesson 25; N – Melius 20. ¯ KILLS: P – Morgan Kuchar 13; N – Taylor Shaner 12. ¯ BLOCKS: N – ...

HOWLAND — Tuesday night’s volleyball match between the Howland Tigers and Canfield Cardinals pitted two of the Valley’s better teams against each other in a rivalry match at Howland High School. The match was hard fought by both sides, but unbeaten Howland walked away with a 3-0 sweep ...

LORDSTOWN — Area distance athletes gathered at Lordstown High School Tuesday afternoon for the 2019 Trumbull County Cross Country Championships. The 5K run comes to a finish at Lordstown’s new sports complex — Veteran’s Memorial Stadium. Sixteen schools competed, but three stood ...

BOARDMAN — Eleven shots on goal. Over twenty shots for the game. The opposition only had seven and the Boardman Spartans still fell to an opportunistic Austintown Fitch Falcon boys soccer team, 4-0, Tuesday night in All-American Conference Red Tier play. “You don’t know what to say to ...

AUSTINTOWN — Frank Bero admits his teammate, Mitchel Dunham, stays a bit ahead of him on training runs in Mill Creek Park, along the sidewalks on Glenwood Avenue and throughout the grassy surfaces surrounding Boardman High School. Dunham kept the same pace ahead of his teammate as the two ...

Football THIS WEEK’S GAMES Friday Non-conference ¯ Austintown Fitch (3-0) at Warren G. Harding (1-2), 7 ¯ Howland (1-2), at Boardman (1-2), 7 ¯ Canfield (2-1) at Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin (1-2), 7 ¯ Champion (2-1) at Windham (1-2), 7 ¯ Cardinal Mooney (2-1) at Akron SVSM ...

LEAVITTSBURG — The Springfield girls soccer team faced one of its toughest challenges of the year and embraced it, beating LaBrae 5-2 to remain undefeated. Heading into the game, the Vikings had been stellar defensively, allowing only four goals all season. “They’re one of the better ...

BRISTOLVILLE — Records can sometimes be deceiving. The Badger Braves volleyball team came in with a perfect record while the Bristol Panthers were sitting a game below .500. This should have been easy, right? Not so fast. Badger stayed undefeated, but it had to fight tooth and nail when ...

POLAND — Cardinal Mooney and Canton GlenOak were the team winners and Hubbard’s Jackie Adler was Division II medalist Monday in the fourth annual Christine Terlesky Girls Golf Invitational at The Lake Club. GlenOak, led by Maddie Reemsnyder with a 72, won the Division I competition by 19 ...

COLUMBUS — The initial Associated Press Ohio Football Prep Poll was announced Monday, with several area teams earning accolades. The Girard Indians, last year’s state runner-up in Division IV, are ranked fourth in D-IV after a 3-0 start. Cincinnati Wyoming, which beat the Indians in the ...

Football Associated Press poll (First-place votes in parentheses) DIVISION I 1, Mentor (10) 3-0 146 2, Cin. St. Xavier (2) 3-0 113 3, Pickerington Central (2) 3-0 108 4, Cin. Elder (3) 3-0 85 5, Dublin Coffman 3-0 78 6, Lakewood St. Edward 2-1 65 7, Hilliard ...

Champion was leading its game at Pymatuning Valley 28-12 Friday when inclement weather stopped play with five minutes left in the third quarter. The decision was made to have the two teams return to the playing field at noon on Saturday to resume the contest. After returning to Champion at ...

Jeff Compan recently reached his second coaching milestone of the year. The 17th-year boys golf coach at Pymatuning Valley earned his 200th career victory on Sept. 9 when the Lakers defeated Maplewood 174-181 at Andover Golf Course. Compan surpassed 300 career wins as the Lakers’ girls ...

WARREN — Mark who? Okay, perhaps it’s a bit of a stretch to suggest Girard High football fans are ever going to forget the exploits of Mark Waid. The All-Ohio quarterback now at Youngstown State University led the Indians to the Division IV state title game last December while setting ...

BOARDMAN — Runners toe the white chalked line on the grassy area, only feet away from a sidewalk. The massive line of young distance runners converge as they funnel toward the Boardman High School football stadium in the distance. There, they turn left and around the baseball field as the ...

Football SATURDAY’S SCORES Area scores ¯ Girard 41, John F. Kennedy 14 ¯ Champion 34, Pymatuning Valley 14 ¯ Cardinal Mooney 48, Carrick, Pa. 0 ¯ Valley Christian 28, Lisbon, OT ¯ Painesville Harvey 34, Grand Valley 6 Around Ohio ¯ Ada 45, McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley ...