ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Offensive rebounds will hurt a team, especially when they are converted into second-chance points. Top-seeded Shenandoah (17-2) recorded a dozen boards off its own missed shots, turning many of them into points as the Zeps held off No. 3 Monroe Central, 60-52 in the OVAC ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — In the Steubenville Big Red’s biggest game to date, their star player had one of her biggest performances. Steubenville senior Nylah McShan scored 28 points on 9-11 shooting on Saturday in Big Red’s OVAC 5A championship victory over John Marshall, 64-48, inside the ...
WHEELING – Despite the now and frigid temperatures the Ohio Valley has been experiencing of late, plans are well underway for the 80th annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All-Star Football Game, which will be played at Wheeling Island Stadium on July 18. Earlier in the week the head coaches of Ohio and ...
WHEELING - The OVAC Hall of Fame continues to build its 2026 class of honorees. Two athletic greats from the decade of the 1980s are the latest shrine additions. They are Weir High’s Erica West and Bellaire High’s Charlie Ward. West and Ward now join previously announced Hall of Fame selections: Weirton Madonna’s Ross Comis and Cambridge’s Eric Fox from the decade of the 2010s; Bellaire’s Ashley Vavrek and Trent Luyster of Harrison Central from the decade of the 2000s while Cameron’s R.C. Anderson and Barnesville’s Ryan Grear are the honorees from the 1990s. All the ...
EAST WHEELING – Friday night was deja vu from three nights earlier for the Wheeling Central boys’ basketball team. The Maroon Knights (13-0) held a 47-45 margin over visiting Linsly after three back-and-forth quarters, but, once again, Eli Sancomb bailed them out. The Liberty University ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Semifinal pairings for the OVAC WVU Medicine Boys Basketball Championships were announced Friday morning by the OVAC Basketball Committee. Steubenville (Class 5A), Cambridge (Class 4A), Wheeling Central (Class 3A), Toronto (Class 2A) and Heartland Christian (Class 1A) all received No. 1 seeds and will host games on Tuesday night. Also hosting games are No. 2 seeds Brooke (Class 5A); Beaver Local (Class 4A); Columbiana (Class 3A); Caldwell (Class 2A) and Trinity (Class 2A). Semifinal matchups include John Marshall at Steubenville and Brooke hosting Wheeling Park ...
