SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — Lakeside started strong Friday night, but simply couldn’t finish what they started.

 SOUTHINGTON — With its shots not falling early, Pymatuning Valley made its presence felt on defense during Friday night’s 73-45 win at Chalker.

GENEVA — A wrestling rivalry which had been going for more than 10 years saw the curtain drop on it’s final act Thursday night — in about as dramatic fashion as either of the participants could have imagined.

CONNEAUT — The Seneca Bobcats took control late in the first half and kept their foot on the gas in the third quarter during a 57-47 District 10 win over the Conneaut Spartans Thursday night.

For Rylan Davison, it appeared to come down to Lake Erie College or Baldwin Wallace for academics and football next school year.

ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP — Every time Geneva and Edgewood’s boys basketball teams have met on the basketball court over the past three years, a thriller has ensued.

ANDOVER — The Wilkerson brothers have made a name for themselves on the Pymatuning Valley basketball court.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — In the early 1970s, I was fortunate to arrive at Penn State University to attend a summer basketball camp as I prepared for my junior high basketball career.

ANDOVER — Pymatuning Valley’s girls basketball team continues to reload year after year.

STATE COLLEGE — A desire to take one last shot at big time college wrestling and earn a master's degree led Lakeside High School graduate Kyle Conel to the most prestigious NCAA Division I wrestling program in the nation.

As a math teacher at Braden Junior High, Gregory Stolfer always takes the time to make sure his students understand mathematical principles such as expressions and equations, ratios and proportions, and probability and statistics.

GATES MILLS — A week ago Ashtabula county swimmers may have felt they were hanging out with their friends at the backyard pool.

JEFFERSON — Due to Ohio transfer rules, Jefferson sophomore John Castrilla played his final game of the 2019-20 season on Saturday against St. John.

GATES MILLS — Three players reached double digits as Lakeside captured a 50-41 boys basketball win over Hawken on Friday night.

PEPPER PIKE — Geneva buried itself into too big of a hole to overcome in Friday night’s 81-63 loss at Orange.

JEFFERSON — With less than seven seconds left, South Range senior Kris Scandy pulled up from behind the 3-point line. It was nothing but net.

ANDOVER — Pymatuning Valley set the tone early in Thursday night’s 58-19 win over Newbury in Andover.

SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — Good wrestlers get better by wrestling other good wrestlers.

ANDOVER — It wasn’t a high-scoring match.

When deciding his future collegiate plans, Lake Erie was one of the schools on the top Ethan Colbert’s list.

CONNEAUT — The North East Grape Pickers used a 13-0 run in the first quarter to build a 16-3 advantage against the Conneaut Spartans in District 10 action on Tuesday.

SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — The Battle of the Bridge is a rivalry on the basketball court once again.

SAYBROOK TOWNSHIP — What started out as a way to get the youth involved in running has turned into much more for Luke Stecki.

For Ethan Wannett, picking up some state-wide recognition is nice, but Lakeside’s 126-pound weight class representative also knows he has to keep working if he wants to get where he wants to go this season.

Last year, Geneva swept the all-county swim meet.

PAINESVILLE — Marcus Ernst has moved up the chain for the Malone University men’s basketball team.

ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP — Geneva continues to bring the pressure on defense.

PAINESVILLE — Chris Blauman scored 19 points and eclipsed the 1,000-point career barrier in Madison’s 56-53 overtime victory Friday night at Riverside, but it was his passing and defense that put the final nail in the Beavers’ coffin.