FAIRMONT — A couple of teams in need of a win will meet Friday night in Fairmont when Weir High travels down interstate 79 to battle East Fairmont. The Red Riders are looking for their first win, while the Bees are 1-5 on the season. “We’re both in the same boat,” Weir head coach ...
FAIRPORT HARBOR — Catholic Central has shown an ability to bounce back from a loss this season, doing so twice already. They’ll have a tall task to make it three times. Coming off a tough loss up at 5-1 Oak Glen, Central now has perhaps it toughest challenge yet with a long trip to battle a state-ranked, undefeated Fairport Harbor Harding squad on Saturday night. Central will be trying to put a 28-0 loss to the Golden Bears in the rear view. “They’ve got a really good football team, a veteran team with some outstanding players,” Central head coach Eric Meek said of ...
WINTERSVILLE — Indian Creek head coach Andrew Connor and Beaver Local head coach Mike McKenzie have been battling it out on the gridiron for many years. The two longtime head coaches will renew their rivalry when the Beavers come to town to take on the Redskins at 7 p.m. Friday night at Kettlewell Stadium. “He’s a good man,” Connor said about McKenzie. “He does a great job. His teams are always well prepared. They play hard. They play physical. It’s usually a great game whenever we play. He is exactly what you want in a high school football coach. He’s hard working. It ...
EAST LIVERPOOL — The Edison football team is looking to build off last week’s big win on homecoming. After having lost its two previous games, Edison rebounded and defeated Canton Central Catholic, 35-17, last week at home out at the Edison Unified Sports Complex. “We stuck together as a team,” first-year Edison (4-3) head coach Anthony Pierro said. “We have some stuff going on off the field, and we have stuck together. We battled. We played physical, and we played as a team. We had a good practice today. That was what you like to see, and we want to build off ...
WELLSBURG — The Brooke football team has made quite the turnaround. After dropping the first two games of the season, the Bruins have now won three of their last four to even up their record at 3-3 and put themselves in the hunt for a playoff spot in West Virginia Class AAA. The latest victory was a hard-fought 21-20 win over East Liverpool last Friday night at Brooke Memorial Stadium. In that win, all-three phases of the game contributed for Brooke as they scored on a blocked kick and a kick return as well as a long run on offense. Grant Yost had four catches and an ...
CONNORVILLE — The Buckeye Local Panthers looked to have their offense going a couple of weeks ago. Since then, though, the offense has stalled. After a big second half rally against Pittsburgh Carrick in which the Panthers won for the second time in three weeks and scored a season high 36 points, Buckeye Local has been held off the scoreboard in back-to-back weeks. Those losses, however, have come to two very good football teams, 5-1 Oak Glen and 4-2 Martins Ferry. In fact, the Panthers five defeats this season have all come to very good teams, opponents with a combined ...
