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Waterford Rolls Past Southern To Make It To Convo
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The intensity was at a fever pitch Wednesday as the Waterford Wildcats (16-6) battled the Southern Tornadoes (12-10) at Meigs High School in the Sectional Finals. Bodies sprawled across the floor on nearly every possession, as both teams put their bodies on the line in a win-or-go-home scenario. Waterford did assert themselves in the end,… Read More
Meigs Falls to Court House, Says Goodbye to Culture-Changing Senior Class
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The Lady Marauders season is over following a 60-49 defeat to the Washington Court House Lady Blue Lions. Meigs will say goodbye to the most accomplished class of young women to pass through their school in decades. As individuals and as a team, the seven seniors that will be moving onto the next phase of… Read More
One Last Hurrah: The Significance of Senior Night
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For many little kids, high school basketball is the pinnacle of their athletic ambitions. The varsity squad, practically superheroes before their eyes, an aspiration to climb towards as they grow. Then, as the day comes when those young adults are finally able to put on that jersey and represent their hometown and those heroes of… Read More
Bulldogs Claim TVC-Ohio with Narrow Win
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Andrew Stephens only scored a single point Friday to go along with two assists and three steals. Yet in one solitary instance, he clinched the TVC-Ohio for his Athens Bulldogs (14-4, 10-1 TVC-Ohio) Friday against the visiting Meigs Marauders (10-10, 5-5). With under a minute left and Athens ahead by one, Stevens intercepted an inbounds… Read More
Lady Marauders Spoil Athens Senior Night
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Athens’ Laura Manderick and Meigs’ Kassidy Betzing both joined esteemed air this season, scoring 1,000 points in their high school careers. Both score from all areas of the court, serving as one-woman wrecking crews for their teams. Monday’s contest between the Lady Bulldogs (7-14, 1-6 TVC-Ohio) and Lady Marauders (13-8, 4-3), though, was not won… Read More
Logan Holds Off Lady Bulldogs
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To get an idea of a high school basketball team’s success, look no further than their success against the 2-3 zone. Every team is going to run into it, and run into it often. Both the Logan Lady Chiefs and the Athens Lady Bulldogs employed the most common zone defense in basketball Thursday, with disparate… Read More
Belpre Beats Trimble for Second Straight Victory
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Basketball is a ‘What have you done for me lately?’ type of game. Past success is not guaranteed to last; momentum comes and goes. The Trimble Tomcats found that out Tuesday against the Belpre Golden Eagles, losing 69-59 in an outing which may serve as a turning point for both teams. Undefeated through their first… Read More
Meigs’ Teams Combine for Even 2-2 Week
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Marauder basketball collectively went 2-2 this past week, with milestones reached and upsets made over the course of the past seven days. Meigs Girls Basketball: The Meigs girls’ team went 1-1 this week, losing to River on Friday before beating Woods County Christian on Saturday. Against the River Pilots, Mallory Hawley scored 14 and… Read More
Strong Defense Carries Meigs Past Wellston
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Coming off a tough loss Tuesday at the hands of Warren, Meigs Marauders head coach Jeremy Hill made it clear that losses don’t define you, it’s what you do with the losses that counts. On Friday, against the Wellston Rockets, his team showed what they had learned. Tighter defense, less fouling, and a barrage of… Read More
Meigs Defeated in Slugfest Against Warren
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Being an official is difficult. In no other profession is it acceptable to be heckled and booed for making unpopular decisions in your workplace. Much less when your decisions result in 70 free throws. Yet, that was the number of attempts from the charity stripe in Tuesday’s contest between the Meigs Marauders and Warren Warriors…. Read More