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Frank Colalella Charitable Foundation awards scholarships

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STEUBENVILLE — The Frank Colalella Charitable Foundation awarded five $1,000 scholarships to area seniors at their awards banquet.  This year’s recipients were Catholic Central’s Matthew Sprochi, Madonna’s Rylee Birkhimer, the Jefferson County JVS’ Leigh Anne Anderson, Brooke’s Rocco Sacripanti and Big Red’s Emily Tuttle. The foundation was formed to honor the legacy of Colabella by friends and teammates. This is the third year that the foundation has awarded scholarships to area seniors.  The foundation has one fundraiser a year,a golf tournament in the ...

Kavan's 4-hit shutout keeps defending champ Texas alive at WCWS with 4-0 win over Mississippi State

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Teagan Kavan pitched a complete-game four-hitter, Kaiah Altmeyer and Kayden Henry each belted a home run, and defending-champion Texas defeated Mississippi State 4-0 on Friday to stay alive at the Women's College World Series. Kavan (26-6), who was the losing pitcher in the Longhorns' 6-3 loss to Tennessee on Thursday, returned to the form that led Texas to the WCWS title in 2025. On Friday, she threw only 78 pitches with two strikeouts and no walks. Second-seeded Texas (48-12) advances to another elimination game on Sunday against the loser between Alabama and ...

Wildcats win first district title since 2012

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MINERVA — After a 14 year wait, the Edison baseball team are district champions again. The Wildcats broke things open with a four-run sixth inning to topple top-seed Indian Valley Friday afternoon in Minerva, winning the Division IV East 1 District Championship with a 6-3 victory. ...

Geno Smith knows he can write a 'superhero movie' story in his return to the Jets

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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Geno Smith knows what a lot of New York Jets fans are daydreaming about. The quarterback has been here before, a much younger and less-experienced version, of course. The Jets had only missed the playoffs the previous two years when Smith was selected by the franchise in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft. He has come and gone elsewhere — four other stops, actually — and that postseason drought has since reached 15 years, the longest among teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball. Smith is now 35 years old and back where he began his ...

Big 12 coaches unanimously agree on their preference for a 24-team playoff

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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Big 12 coaches unanimously agreed Thursday on their preference for a 24-team College Football Playoff, a scenario in which the conference would have had five playoff teams last season instead of only league champion Texas Tech like it did in the current 12-team playoff format. When the 16 coaches were informally polled about doubling the size of the playoff field during one of their sessions at the Big 12 spring meetings, all of them raised their hands. "They should ask coaches for more opinions on what's best for college football," West Virginia coach Rich ...

Historic run ends for Harrison Central softball

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DUNCAN FALLS - The Harrison Central softball team faced a tall order against Emory Whisner and undefeated Licking Valley. Whisner was recently named the Licking County League Buckeye Division Player of the Year, and her and teammates showed exactly why they are a force to be reckoned with as the Panthers - the No. 1 ranked team in the state - shut out the Huskies, 14-0, in four-and-a-half innings in the second Ohio Division IV Region 13 Semifinal of the day Thursday evening out at Philo. "We ran into a buzzsaw today," Harrison Central (19-11) head coach Darrin Young said. "It is what ...