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Ellwood City Tennis To Host Mini Clinic

Ellwood City Tennis will be conducting a tennis clinic for any boy or girl interested in learning the basics of tennis. The tennis clinic will be held on June 26th, 27th, and 28th, 2023 at the Ewing Park Courts from 10:00 a.m to 11:15 a.m. Any child ages 5-12 is eligible to sign up and participate. Each participant will receive a t-shirt. The clinic will promote tennis skills from the basic to moderate level. “The participants will learn skills pertaining to tennis. Footwork, backhand, forehand, serving and lead up tennis games,” says Ellwood City head coach John DiBuono. “It’s a…


Ellwood City Tennis Defeats Rival Riverside

Ellwood City leaned on Ryan Odom who earned a singles match victory to propel Ellwood City to a 3-2 victory over rival Riverside on Tuesday. Odom defeated Jaden Falk 6-5 and 7-5. For Riverside, Samuel Hughes collected a singles victory, defeating Grady Smith of Ellwood City 6-0 and 6-3. The Panthers also collected a doubles victory as Reece Pilarski & Jeff Weisz rallied to defeat Ellwood City’s Ayden Frisk & Hunter Rock (5-7, 6-4, 6-2) after dropping their first set. The host Wolverines earned forfeit victories in its third singles match and second doubles match to come out ahead with…


Ellwood City Boys Tennis Defeated By Blackhawk

The Wolverines boys tennis team dropped its first match of the season, falling to Blackhawk 4-1 in Ewing Park Monday afternoon. Grady Smith picked up the lone victory for Ellwood City. Smith defeated Aiden Terry 6-2 and 7-5 in singles play. The Cougars used victories by Ben Crefeld (6-1, 6-2 over Ryan Odom) and Luke Shope (6-0, 6-0 over Anthony DiBuono) in singles play and swept doubles. The Wolverines pairing of Ayden Frisk & Kaden Schlichtkrull and Hunter Rock & Quinn Smith were defeated in doubles. Ellwood City, now 1-1 overall (0-1 section) on the season will next host Beaver…


SPORTS: Wolverines Volleyball Opens Season With Victory, EC Tennis Defeated

Ellwood City Girls Volleyball has officially started for the Lady Wolverines as they defeated the Ambridge Bridgers in three straight sets to pick up the early season victory. The Wolverines came right out of the gate, having a double-digit lead in the first set, ultimately winning 25-19. Ellwood City did one better yet in the second set, winning 25-18 to go up two sets to none. The big factor tonight for the Lady Wolverines was serving as several players like Alyssa Donley, Morgan Hooker, and Delaney Sturgeon went on multiple point streaks while on offense. Defense was carried by the…


Ellwood City Tennis Set To Host A Mini-Clinic

Ellwood City Tennis will be conducting a tennis clinic for any boy or girl interested in learning the basics of tennis. The tennis clinic will be held on June 27th, 28th, and 29th, 2022 at the Ewing Park Courts from 10:00 a.m to 11:15 a.m. Any child ages 5-12 is eligible to sign up and participate. Each participant will receive a t-shirt. The clinic will promote tennis skills from the basic to moderate level. “The participants will learn skills pertaining to tennis. Footwork, backhand, forehand, serving and lead up tennis games,” says Ellwood City head coach John DiBuono. “It’s a…


EC Boys Tennis Wraps Up Season With Victory; EC Softball Suffers First Defeat

The Ellwood City boys tennis team wrapped up its regular season with a victory Thursday afternoon while the Wolverines softball team suffered its first defeat of its regular season earlier in the week.  Also, the Riverside Panthers baseball team cruised to a 22-0 victory over Summit Academy. EC Tennis Defeats Ambridge The Ellwood City boys tennis team used two impressive doubles victories to collect a match victory over Ambridge 3-2 on Thursday in Ewing Park. The victory rounded out the regular season that saw the Wolverines finish 4-4 on the campaign. Ayden Frisk and Hunter Rock collected 6-0, 6-0 victories…


Ellwood City Cross Country Remains Undefeated, EC Girls Tennis Beats Riverside; Panther Soccer Teams Victorious

The Ellwood City Boys Cross Country team remains undefeated after its victory at Southside Beaver on Tuesday. The boys defeated opponents Shenango (21-26), Southside Beaver (15-50), and Beaver Falls (15-50).  Top runners for the Wolverines were Anthony Spadafore (2nd place, 19:31), Joel Brooks (4th place, 19:46), Colton Crizer (5th place, 20:04), Nick Wise (6th place, 20:19), and Ian Stoneking (8th place, 21:22). “All the boys ran a great race,” said head coach Mark Hall. Next up to finish out the regular season is a meet at Riverside next Tuesday against Mohawk and Riverside. The Ellwood City Girls Tennis team defeated…


ROUND-UP: Clean Sweep For Ellwood City Sports On Thursday

Ellwood City posted a clean sweep Thursday afternoon with girls tennis, co-ed golf, and volleyball all collecting victories. The Ellwood City Girls Tennis Team defeated Beaver Falls 5-0 to even their record to 1-1 on the season.  Maddy McCommons (6-1, 6-0) and Rylea Heitzenrater (6-0, 6-0) collected singles victories. Olivia Andrew and Savannah Holsinger (6-0, 6-0) posted a victory in doubles. Two forfeits aided the Wolverines victory. The Ellwood City Co-Ed Golf continued its strong early season play with a 220-235 victory over Laurel on Thursday.  The Wolverines are now 6-1 overall.  Milo Sesti fired a team-low round of 38…


Ellwood City Tennis Set To Host Mini-Clinic

Ellwood City Tennis will be conducting a tennis clinic for any boy or girl interested in learning the basics of tennis. The tennis clinic will be held on June 28th, 29th, and 30th, 2021 at the Ewing Park Courts from 10:00 a.m to 11:15 a.m. Any child ages 5-12 is eligible to sign up and participate. Each participant will receive a t-shirt. The clinic will promote tennis skills from the basic to moderate level. “We have coaches, instructors, and players help run the clinic,” said Ellwood City head coach John DiBuono. “We hope that elementary aged students will gain an…


Riverside Boys Tennis Defeats Ellwood City

The Riverside Boys Tennis team collected a 4-1 victory in tennis action Monday afternoon at Riverside High School. Ethan Hughes (6-3, 6-0) collected straight set victory in singles while Payne Hoover & Kaysen Conver (6-2, 6-3) and Avery Wolf & Liam Gallagher (6-3, 6-4) collected straight set victories to pace Riverside. Hunter Famsworth (6-3, 3-6, 6-2) also earned a singles victory for the host Panthers. Max Kuffer (6-3, 6-2) collected a straight set victory for the Wolverines lone point on the afternoon. This was the first match of the season for Ellwood City who has four returning players from last…