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 ...
PENINSULA — Addison Rhodes grabbed the scissors, took to the ladder and grabbed the net. Unfortunately she had some difficulty cutting down her piece of twine. “I’m lefthanded, and they’re righthanded scissors,” Rhodes said with a smile afterward. Grinning from ear to ear as she ...
PENINSULA — Admittedly, Poland girls basketball coach Nick Blanch thought the 2025-26 season was going to be a bit of a rebuilding year. The Bulldogs had a young core that needed experience, and it was going to take time for everything to gel. But Blanch still thought his girls could make ...
The state swim meet was held at C.T. Branin Natatorium in Canton this past week, with the finals taking place Friday and Saturday. The Springfield girls were the top finishers from the area, tying for ninth with 85 points in Division II. Canfield was 38th with 10, Howland tied for 49th with six and Poland was 53rd with four. For the boys, Salem came in 40th with 12 points to lead the area schools, and Poland tied for 48th with six as Ursuline came in 50th with five In Division I, Boardman’s girls finished tied for 31st with 17 points. DIVISION II GIRLS Springfield’s Paige ...
More than 100 area wrestlers clinched a spot in a district tournament with a top-four placing at the various sectionals this past weekend. Of those qualifiers, 21 won a sectional title. Across seven different sectional events, Austintown Fitch’s Evan Protopapa, Stephen Medved, Reghan Koch and Yelieishka Perez-Navedo, Canfield’s Gabe Miller, Hubbard’s Markel Hackwelder, West Branch’s Beau Nezbeth, Gavin Hang and Grace Bates, Grand Valley’s Joe Montgomery, Pymatuning Valley’s Bennett Claypoole, South Range’s Ralph Stellato and Tyson Seesholtz, Western Reserve’s Amelia ...
