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BELPRE, Ohio (WTAP) - The Belpre Golden Eagles girls basketball team got off to a 1-0 start on Monday night, in the first game for new head coach Regina Leftwich, as they took down the Meigs Lady Marauders 69-47 at home. Julia Way and Gracie Bills led the way for...

PARKERSBURG — A quartet of Parkersburg High School senior football players were named to the All-Mountain State Athletic Conference first team. The Big Reds of second-year head coach Matt Kimes, who finished 7-5, advanced to the state quarterfinals before falling at Princeton. PHS landed signal-caller David Parsons, tight end...

VINCENT, Ohio (WTAP) - The Warren Lady Warriors basketball team struggled early but bounced back to win a defensive effort over the Lady Bulldogs of Athens 46-33 in their season opener. In the second season under coach Brad Venham, the Warriors contributions from young players and veterans. Freshman Aubrey Pepper...

VINCENT – Making your first appearance in a varsity basketball game can give a big case of the jitters to even the best of high school basketball players. Those first game jitters didn’t seem to bother Warren freshman Aubrey Pepper one single bit Monday evening as she led the Warriors to a 46-33 win over the visiting Athens Lady Bulldogs in the season opener for both teams.

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - Parkersburg South senior Reagan Parsons boasts a 4.0 grade point average. Parsons credited her parents for prioritizing academics. “My parents would always joke around about it because my brother was not so serious about it. He always wanted to get good grades, but they always told me I was the better academic child, and I always took it serious with them.”

The Lady Dawgs fall to 1-1 on the season. They will play Philo on Saturday at 12:30.

Still in recovery mode after incredibly successful seasons of both soccer and volleyball in the fall the Marietta Tiger girls basketball team showed a little rust for the better part of three quarters in Tuesday night’s home opener against Martins Ferry. The Tigers shook off that rust and found...

FALLS TOWNSHIP — Josh Middleton wanted to challenge his young West Muskingum squad out of the gate. The Tornadoes responded in the season opener, overcoming an eight-point, first-quarter deficit to edge Strasburg, 44-42, last week. Unfortunately, they couldn't replicate that rally on Tuesday, falling behind 11-6 after one quarter...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - The Waterford Wildcats opened up their season at home in a foundation game against the Morgan Raiders where they fell 66-60 on Tuesday night. The Wildcats are coming off a season where they finished with a record of 14-10. Jarrett Armstrong and Alec Johnson put up 17 points each in the loss.

STEWART - There’s coming out of the gates roaring, and then there’s whatever Federal Hocking girls basketball is doing right now. Following a lopsided 53-point victory over Miller last week to tip off the season, the Lancers (2-0) carried over that tremendous momentum with a statement victory over Nelsonville-York (0-1) on Monday night. Going up against the Tri-Valley Conference-Ohio champions from a year before with one of the better athletes in the area still on the roster, the Lancers controlled the pace of the game...

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• The semifinals of the 2023 high school football playoffs are taking place. • In the A division, Williamstown defeated Tucker County with a score of 45-8. • Fairmont Senior won against Independence with a score of 42-21 in the AA division.

CORNING — With a revamped roster and rising expectations within the program, Federal Hocking girls basketball came out and made a statement on the opening night of the season with an utterly dominant 71-18 win over Miller on the road. Suffocating the Falcons (0-1) all night, the Lancers (1-0) grabbed 24 steals on the night with Brenlee Cottrill and Jaylee Orsborne each tallying seven respectively. Three different athletes reached double-digits on the scoreboard for the Lancers with Cottrill leading the charge with 25 points in...

PARSONS, W.Va. — Class A No. 3 Williamstown had its way against No. 2 Tucker County in a 45-8 victory during Friday’s semifinal at R.H. Armstrong Memorial Stadium. The win sends the defending state champion Yellowjackets to Wheeling Island Stadium for next week’s Super Six, which will mark Williamstown’s third consecutive appearance in a state title game.

PARSONS, W.Va. — It was a muddy one Friday evening when the Yellowjackets traveled to Parsons to take on Tucker County. Despite a slow start, Williamstown would go on to win in convincing fashion by a score of 45-8. This marks Williamstown’s third title game appearance in three years. Yellowjacket coach Chris Beck said that, “To get there three times is a testament to these seniors. A special group of kids. I’ve said from the outset, they have a chance to be remembered as the best class to come through our program, and we’re a step closer to that. All the credit goes to them, and our community should be incredibly proud of them.”

PARKERSBURG — Approximately 3,000 people participated in the 45th annual Turkey Trot three-mile race Thursday morning at Parkersburg City Park. “About 2,500 pre-registered for the race, but more show up the day of,” said Sharon Marks, race director. Dorsey Cheuvront, owner of the On the Run and Walk,...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - Parkersburg South High School senior Erin Carmicle will be heading to Pittsburgh for the next four years, as she made the decision to continue her career in Crew at Duquesne University, a Division I program. Erin says the team atmosphere when she visited the campus was...

PARSONS, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Tucker County Mountain Lions were officially eliminated from the playoffs on Friday in a 45-8 semifinal loss to the Williamstown Yellow Jackets.

Circleville Logan Elm left no doubt in recording a 57-38 win over Washington Court House Washington in an Ohio girls basketball matchup on Nov. 28. Last season, Washington Court House Washington and Circleville Logan Elm squared off on Dec. 14, 2021 at Circleville Logan Elm High School. Check out our...

A 1946 photograph of the boys’ basketball team of Williamstown High School, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Front Row: Andrew “Sonny” Barkos; George Adams; Edwin Underkoffler; Russel Hay; Larry Byerly; Dave Bowerman. Back Row: Charles “Doc” Evitts, coach; Bob Lewis; Donald McCready; Bob Kaster; Charles Evitts Jr.; John...