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April 1, 2016

EC Junior High Softball Team Drops to 0-2 as Shaler Wins 10-0

The Lady Wolverines traveled to Shaler on Thursday afternoon and took one on the chin. Shaler put up 10 runs in just five innings as the game was halted by the mercy rule. Walks and untimely errors proved to be the young team’s undoing as Shaler managed just five hits. The Wolverines mustered just three hits themselves as Shaler’s defense was dazzling. The normally sure-handed defense committed an uncharacteristic three errors and Shaler also benefited from 13 walks. Maria Ioanilli led the hitters with a line shot double into the left centerfield gap. Sydni Haswell and Zoe Maine each had…

March 30, 2016

Ellwood City Track and Field Grabs Individual Wins in Double Meet

The Ellwood City boys and girls track and field started the season yesterday with a double meet versus Beaver and Rochester at home. Both the boys and girls teams defeated Rochester but lost to Beaver. The Ellwood girls dominated much of the field competition against both Beaver and Rochester, with Mia DeCaria winning the high and triple jumps, Goldie Bookamer winning the pole-vault, Karrington Ketterer winning javelin and Madison Morella winning the long jump. For the boys, Billy Lott won the 3200 meter run while placing second in the 800 and 1600 to Beaver’s Riley Lamison. Keyshawn Gatto, Ricky Roth…

March 30, 2016

EC Junior High Drops Opener 15-4 to Seneca Valley

The Lady Wolverines jumped out to an early 2-0 lead after two innings against the Raiders at Stiefel Park. The lead would prove to be short lived as Seneca Valley plated nine runs in the third and fourth to win going away by a score of 15-4. Taylor Covert led the offense with three singles, two RBI’s and scored once. She also added two stolen bases. Madi Krugh and Olivia Battaglia each added singles and scored once. Zoe Maine and Chloe Sturgeon rounded out the seven hit attack with singles. Maine and Krugh also had stolen bases. Krugh took the…

March 30, 2016

Baseball/Softball Recap: Ellwood City and Riverside Pick up Wins

The Ellwood City girls softball team won their first conference game against New Brighton 14-0 in a total shutout yesterday. The game was secured in the first two innings by 11 runs. New Brighton had no hits the entire game. Camille Maine had four RBIs, while the team total was 14. Freshman Anna Ferrucci had three hits and three runs, the highest for each. Pitcher Skyla Greco had 14 strikeouts and zero hits against. The Lady Panthers host Laurel tomorrow. Riverside Defeats Freedom 11-1 The Riverside Panthers defeated Freedom 11-1 in a home non-conference game on Tuesday. Runs were distributed…

March 29, 2016

Ellwood Area Egg Hunt Committee Announces Winners and Thanks Sponsors

The Ellwood City Area Egg Hunt Committee thanks everyone who made the 23rd Annual Egg Hunt possible. This year’s egg hunt had over 600 children and 6,000 eggs. The winners of the golden eggs were October Freet, Malayna Means, Lena Rose Smith, Makenzie Michaels, Anastasis Ryan, Luca Carsele, Evelynn Newhart, Allison Weaver, Giulian Frisk, Brayden Heaton, Danny Viscuso, Julianna VanGorder, Stevie Sockaci, De’Asia Myers, Shakara Myers, Dakota Weldon, Seth Weldon, Logan Dickinson, Ariana Contino, Aidan Crepp, Hunter Krieser, Aaron Burk and Izzy Contino. The committee thanks those who portrayed characters:  Kaitlyn Wright and Catlain Froce as Elsa, Makaila Holsinger as…

March 28, 2016

Letter to the Editor: We Can’t Allow Fear to Dictate Policy

by Anthony Deluca, Lincoln High Class of 2009 A high school teacher of mine, Rick DeLoia, taught me (along with many others who paid attention) that the United States of America is great because we protect the freedoms of the minority groups and that goes further than race/ethnicity. That concept applies to any group who thinks differently than the majority of the population. There was a time in the United States when we put the Japanese in camps, because as a nation we were scared and didn’t know what to do. Since 9/11 it’s been the Muslim people under scrutiny,…

March 28, 2016

Weekly Sports Schedule

Monday No games scheduled. Tuesday 3:30 p.m. Riverside boys tennis at Quaker Valley 3:30 p.m. Ellwood track v Beaver home 3:45 p.m. Riverside track at Blackhawk 4 p.m. Riverside baseball v Freedom at home 4 p.m. Ellwood City baseball at Shenango 4 p.m. Ellwood softball at New Brighton 4 p.m. Riverside softball v Mohawk home Wednesday 4 p.m. Riverside baseball at Blackhawk 4:30 p.m. Ellwood baseball v West Allegheny home Thursday 3:30 p.m. Riverside tennis v Blackhawk home 3:30 p.m. Ellwood tennis at Beaver 4 p.m. Riverside baseball v Beaver home 5 p.m. Ellwood softball v Laurel home 5 p.m….

March 25, 2016

Lawrence County Lightning Squirt Hockey Team Covert traveled to Cleveland Plays in the Rock and Roll Cleveland Cup Ice Hockey Tournament.

The Lawrence County Lightning Squirt Hockey Team Covert traveled to Cleveland this past weekend to play in the Rock and Roll Cleveland Cup Ice Hockey Tournament. The team is comprised of 16 kids from nine School Districts, four counties and two states. They play their home games at Hess Ice Rink in New Castle. On Friday night the Lightning matched up against the Pittsburgh Predators, where the team fought through first period jitters en route to a 4-1 win. Saturday morning, the Lightning faced off with the Southpointe Rink Rats. The Lightning struck quickly jumping out to a 3-1 first…