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JM sweeps Brooke in volleyball opener

MOUNDSVILLE – Wednesday night’s high school volleyball match between W.Va. Class AAA rivals Brooke and John Marshall might have been a season-opener, but one team looked in mid-season form while the other didn’t. The homestanding Monarchs, who are coming off of a 2025 campaign that saw ...

Big Red has tough opening opponent

STEUBENVILLE — Big Red's opening night opponent will be far from a walk in the park.  After a long summer of hard work, the Big Red football team will make the walk up the ramp into what is sure to be a packed Harding Stadium for the first time in 2026 on Friday night to host Painesville ...

Creek takes opening night spotlight

WINTERSVILLE — For more than a decade, Indian Creek and Cambridge have been clashing to open the football season. This year, the annual mutual opener will have a big spotlight as the Redskins and Bobcats are set to open up the season tonight, getting the bulk of the attention locally ...

Pay dispute between soccer refs, OVAC resolved

Let the games begin in West Virginia and continue in Ohio as far as OVAC boys’ and girls’ high school soccer goes. The Mountain State debuts Wednesday while the Buckeye State has been playing for nearly a week. Following an ongoing pay increase dispute between the OVAC and the Ohio Valley Soccer Referee Association, both sides reached an agreement late Tuesday morning. According to an email from Wheeling attorney David Delk, representing the soccer officials, “The individual schools are paying the requested rate. … The soccer referee association is not dealing with the ...

Ready for the season

Members of the Steubenville Kiwanis Club heard from three area football coaches during Tuesday's meeting at the Sycamore Youth Center. Participating were, from left, Greg Bahen of Catholic Central, Andrew Connor of Indian Creek and Reno Saccoccia of Steubenville Big Red. The three offered a ...

PREP ROUNDUP

GOLF BIG RED BACK IN THE WIN COLUMN EAST LIVERPOOL — The Big Red golf team got back in the win column on Tuesday. After ending last week with a couple of tough losses, Steubenville bounced back in style on the road at Historic Highlands Golf Coursr, topping host Wellsville for a victory in a nine-hole match. Big Red carded a team score of 166, led by match medalist Noah Kokiko's score of 40. Big Red's score was 74 better than the Tigers. Also for coach Joe Garay's Steubenville squad, Andrew Matzorkis, Jaggar Rawson and Gino Scaffidi each carded scores of 42, while Joel ...