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Brooke back at home for a Saturday game

WELLSBURG — The Brooke Bruins return to Brooke Memorial on Saturday, licking their wounds from a tough 35-6 loss on the road against an unbeaten North Marion outfit. An intriguing matchup is headed their way following what will be a multi-hour early Saturday morning trip for Watkins Memorial High School in Pataskala. The Warriors come to Brooke County with a 4-1 record and fresh off a 41-0 drubbing of Johnstown. Watkins Memorial’s defense owns three shutouts to its credit and another game where it allowed just seven points. The outlier? A 24-19 loss to Sheridan at home. The ...

Oak Glen looks to put four quarters together

BERKELEY SPRINGS — The Oak Glen football team has shown signs so far this season, however, the Golden Bears have yet to put a full four quarters of play together. Oak Glen will look to change that this week as boys from Hancock County travel across the state to take on Berkeley Springs at 4 p.m. Saturday over at Morgan Field. Both teams will be looking to pick up their first win of the season. Oak Glen enters the game coming off of a 41-21 loss to Toronto last Friday up at the Bears Den. The Golden Bears scored all 21 points in the second half. “I thought we did a decent job ...

Huskies, Red Devils set to battle for the Coal Bucket

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The coveted Coal Bucket Trophy will be up for grabs once again Friday night when Harrison Central visits Red Devil Stadium to meet St. Clairsville. This will be the 24th matchup between the two Buckeye 8 rivals, with the Red Devils holding a commanding, 18-5, advantage in a series that dates back to 1999. Both teams come into the 7:30 kickoff highly ranked in their respective Buckeye State divisions. St. Clairsvillle (4-1) checks in at sixth in Division IV, Region 15 and is riding a 4-game winning streak after a season-opening loss to still-perfect Canton South. ...

Buckeye Local traveling south to test Shenandoah

SARAHSVILLE — If Buckeye Local hopes to get back on track Friday in a MOVL showdown in Sarahsville, then the Panthers will need a much better start to this game than during last Friday’s loss to Monroe Central. Coming off their first win of the season, the Panthers’ first two offensive possessions resulted in a fumble and a blocked punt. Not ideal scenarios for a team still searching for a consistent offensive identity. Head coach Jim Hoover noted that his team needs to be able to overcome adversity when it happens and not to hang their heads. Those two initial drives certainly ...

Dons regroup during bye after good start

WEIRTON — The Madonna football team has reached its bye week during Week 4 of the West Virginia season with a 2-1 mark thus far. The Blue Dons, guided by first-year coach Troy Fetty, took care of Wellsville 32-0 on the road and Hancock, Md. 49-8 at home before falling to a tough Toronto team on the road last week, 47-13. “Being 2-1 at this point is very good, of course we’d like to be 3-0, but we ran into a very good Toronto team,” Fetty said. “We didn’t play our best game this past week .. it was a learning experience, we played very hard the whole game, which is a ...

Big Red headed to Dover

DOVER — With the Ohio high school football season reaching the midway point this weekend, more and more focus will be on computer points and standings. A bunch of points will be on the line Friday when Steubenville squares off against Dover Friday inside Crater Stadium, also known as ...