ELYRIA — Having just won its first district title since 2007, Crestview wasn’t about to rest on its laurels on Tuesday in a Div. V regional semifinal against Doylestown Chippewa at the Elyria Catholic Coliseum. Having come back from a five-point halftime deficit to tie the game heading ...
BOYS BASKETBALL DISTRICT SEMIFINALS DIVISION II Northeast 3 North Royalton 54, Warren G. Harding 33 — The Raiders finished their season Tuesday with a loss to the higher-seeded Bears. Harding, which began the year with four wins in its first five games, won only four more in its final 17 to finish 8-14. Northeast 4 Hudson 59, Austintown Fitch 52 — Despite 21 points by E.J. Giles, the Falcons’ season came to an end with a loss to the Explorers. AJ Diaz chipped in 12 points, and Braeden Sallee and Brady Evans had 9 and 8, respectively. Hudson’s Jayden Carlton and Nathan ...
When asked to describe Gianna Pompelia’s contribution to the Warren John F. Kennedy basketball program, JFK coach Marc Morgan doesn’t immediately recite stats, which include a career scoring total of 1,440 points. Nor does he zero in on Pomelia’s tendency to perform at a high level in ...
McDONALD — There had not been many teams hotter than Badger over the past six weeks, considering the Braves won eight of their last 10, including four straight, entering Monday’s Division VII, Northeast 1 district semifinals. But their opponent, the nearly flawless McDonald Blue Devils, ...
MINERAL RIDGE — Saturday’s district title game was not a home game for Warren JFK. But for Eagles senior Gianna Pompelia, the Mineral Ridge gym may as well be her home court. A year after her monster 43-point outing to give Kennedy its first girls basketball district title, Pompelia did ...
MINERAL RIDGE — This time last season, Maplewood saw its season come to an end in the district finals. That sting has sat with the Rockets for over a year now, and with another opportunity to bring a district crown home on the same floor that hosted their defeat a season ago, they ...
