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August 24, 2024

Palmer-McCane Sets Rushing Record, Wolverines Earn Opening Week Victory Over Laurel

The Ellwood City Wolverines football team picked up a season opening victory on the road Friday night, edging Laurel 14-7 in overtime. Ellwood City may have earned a narrow victory, but Elijah Palmer-McCane made a huge mark in the record books. The senior running back finished with 146 rushing yards, adding two touchdowns in the contest, to become the Ellwood City Wolverines all-time career rushing leader. Palmer-McCane plunged in from 2-yards out in the second quarter to put the Wolverines ahead with a 7-0 advantage. The lead held until late the 4th quarter when the host Spartans struck with less…

August 23, 2024

PHOTOS: Annual Panther Night

The annual Panther Night was held Thursday at Riverside Memorial Stadium. Panther Night is a community event celebrating back to school and Fall sports teams and kicked off with the Riverside Marching Band performing and the introduction of the athletes. The event features food booths run buy many of the district booster organizations along with two food trucks and an array of apparel offerings available to help support student athletes as well. The Riverside Panthers Varsity Football team hosts Northgate on Friday, August 30th at 7:00 p.m. to kick off its regular season.

August 23, 2024

EC Girls Golf Picks Up First Win of Season, Boys Golf Remains Undefeated

The Ellwood City girls golf team picked up their first win of the regular season Thursday while the boys team keeps on winning. The girls golf team earned their first win of the season Thursday afternoon, knocking off Mohawk 211-217 at Delmar Golf Course. Rori Minerd paced the Lady Wolverines with a low match score of 47. Rylee Prestopine (58), Romy Westlund (60), and Chelsea Baker (62) rounded out the scoring for the victors. Ellwood City (1-4 Overall) next travel to face Sewickley Academy on Monday, August 26th and look to extend a winning streak. For the boys, two victories…

August 21, 2024

Ellwood City Wolverines 2024 Fall Sports Tickets Now Available

Tickets for the Ellwood City Wolverines Fall Sport Season will be sold on-line at gofan.co or the Go Fan app. Ellwood City will be slowly making the change to digital ticketing for all sports. There will be no tickets sold at the school at this time.  There will be a limited amount  of Adult tickets, $5.00, that can be purchased at the gate for each home game this season. Senior Citizen tickets will still be sold at the gate for $1.00.   There will be no Student Tickets sold at the school or at the gate this season. Student tickets will…

August 20, 2024

Ellwood City Boys Golf Team Knocks Off Riverside, Improves To 5-0

Three Wolverine golfers went low on Monday to help Ellwood City remain unbeaten as they knocked off rival Riverside 199-220 at Del Mar Golf Course. Jordan Keller fired a match-low round of 33 to lead the Wolverines.  Jaxon Rozanski and Nate Kennedy also each submitted sub-40 rounds, finishing with rounds of 39 respectively. Andy Lin (46) and Braden Roberts (42) rounded out the scoring for Ellwood City. Drake Fox fired a team-low round of 41 for the Panthers in defeat. Fry and Garvin posted rounds of 44 for the Riverside. Ellwood City will next travel to play at Neshannock on…

August 19, 2024

Pie Festival, Panther Night On Thursday!

Both Ellwood City and Riverside school districts will kick off their respective back to school seasons with community events on Thursday, August 22nd. Ellwood City will host its annual Lincoln High School Marching Blue Band Pie Festival at Helling Stadium in Ewing Park. Tickets are $5.00 to redeem for an Amish hand pie and bottle of water. Gates open at 6:00. Show starts at 7:00. Blue Band Boosters will serve pie 6:00-7:00 and will resume serving after the show so everyone can celebrate the athletes and enjoy the show. Tickets for the Pie Festival are available from band students prior…

August 15, 2024

Keller Crowned Champion Of 64th Annual Delmar Golf Course Club Championship

The 64th Annual Delmar Golf Course Club Championship was held August 10th and August 11th, 2024. This season’s championship field was comprised of 62 members of Delmar Golf Course. Ellwood City golf team junior and co-captain, Jordan Keller outlasted the field to be crowned the champion golfer of the year with a two stroke play total of 141 (-3). Keller’s even par 72 Sunday was good enough to hold off Zach Buben’s closing 69, as well as Michael Pope who both finished the event at 145. In other flight action, 2024 LHS graduate Mitchell Covert capture the A-flight title by…

August 13, 2024

Wolverines Boys Golf Team Improve To 2-0 On Young Season

The Ellwood City boys golf team is off to a quick start, earning victories in their first two matches of the fall golf season. Junior Jordan Keller fired a match-low 32 on Friday to help Ellwood City earn a 205-213 victory over Ambridge at Fox Run Golf Course. Nate Kennedy finished with a round of 41, Braden Roberts a round of 42, and Andy Lin and Jaxon Rozanski rounded out the scoring with rounds of 45 for the Wolverines. On Monday, Kennedy joined Keller with sub-40 rounds as Ellwood City knocked off Union at Sylvan Heights. Keller finished with a…

August 6, 2024

Justin Hand End College Golf Career With 2nd Straight Academic All-American Honor

Justin Hand was among five golf standouts from Tiffin University to be named Cobalt Golf All-America Scholars for the 2023-24 season. The 6’0″ senior and Riverside High School graduate earned a major in Accounting at Tiffin. He graduated from Tiffin University on May 4th Magna Cum Laude and started his MBA Program in Data Analytics at Tiffin University on May 14th. He is the son of Bill and Michelle. Hand turns in a decorated collegiate golfing career, finishing as a two-time Academic All-American and was a four-year starter on the Dragons men’s golf team. Hand tied the Tiffin University school…

August 3, 2024

Free Basketball Camp Draws 42 Participants

The free co-ed basketball camp at Ewing Park for 6 to 12-year-olds was held Monday, July 29th through Friday, Aug. 2nd from 10 a.m. to Noon. Forty-two campers were taught ball handling, dribbling, passing, defense, foul shot and layup shooting form and some rules of the game. The camp concluded Friday with games of knock out, horse, a shooting competition and games of five versus five. They were also treated to a pizza party. The pizza was donated by Johnny’s Pizza owner Joe Desanzo. Coach and organizer of the camp was Bob Rak. Coaches included Al Campman, Joe Fisher, Herman…