Local Sports

Justin Hand might’ve just celebrated graduating from Riverside High School, but he’s already back into the swing of things in tournament golf. Hand came in second place this past weekend at the WPGA Junior Championship. He finished with a total gross of 69, falling one short from the 1st place winner Rocco Salvitti of Canonsburgh. The WPGA Junior Championship was Hands’ last junior tournament. “This tournament made me feel good about my game,” said Hand. “I can’t wait to take this momentum into my next tournament and college.” Golfing in this tenuous coronavirus pandemic we’re currently living with seems to…

When school got cancelled, so did the sports that were left to be completed. Seniors were left without a senior season, and plenty of other athletes were left disappointed. Thankfully, our county was lucky enough that we could have summer leagues for the local athletes playing softball and baseball. For Lincoln High School students, the Ellwood City summer Colt League team is having a successful season with only three losses and their team ranking among the top teams in their league. Ashton Wilson leads the team in batting average. “Ryan Hampton and Ryan Gibbons have been lock down pitchers this…

A short scrimmage game took place Friday evening in Koppel Borough after the Potter Baseball Tour visited and spend hours working on the borough baseball field. Borough volunteers helped put the finishing touches on the refurbished Sixth Avenue Baseball Field. Led by former Ellwood City pitching ace Jeff Potter, this elite team not only plays a month-long schedule against ball teams all over the northeast, they also perform community service in every town they visit.  The Potter’s Pirates spent three days laboring on the Historic Koppel diamond to make this pick-up game a reality. The scrimmage pitted the Koppel ‘Old…

The Lady Wolverines put together another solid team effort and defeated Union on Tuesday evening in a battle of unbeaten teams. Ellwood City came away with a 5-3 victory in the hard fought win. Ellwood City got the scoring started in the top of the 3rd inning. Ava Dausman reached second base on a throwing error by the shortstop on a hard hit ground ball. She moved to third on a groundout by Kennedy Brown and scored on a two out single by Amber Mcquistion. The fifth would see Ellwood City increase their lead to 2-0. Once again, Dausman started…

Typically, a summer season for baseball and softball would be filled with play-off games and tournaments, but since the pandemic, local youth baseball and softball organizations have decided to use whatever they can of the summer to give the local youth a chance to play this year. Local leagues like the Ellwood City Girls Softball League, will only have 5 teams for their 13-18 age group and 3 teams for their 9-12 age group. They began practicing at the begining of June and will start having games June 29th. The teams have been practicing at the fields in Ellport. They…