Girls soccer: Walsh Jesuit seeks fifth consecutive state title in Division I...
Names change and so does style of play, but there are two key ingredients to a Walsh Jesuit girls soccer program eyeing its fifth consecutive state title and 10th crown in school history.Achievement...
View ArticleAAA Akron Auto Club opens in new downtown home
The AAA Akron Auto Club has moved into its new home in downtown Akron, just across the street from the Metro regional transit station on South Broadway.“We definitely have a transportation theme here,”...
View ArticleTrump protesters flood streets anew and schools report racially charged...
Spurred by fear and outrage, protesters around the country rallied and marched Friday as they have done daily since Donald Trump’s presidential election victory.The spirited demonstrations on college...
View ArticleBrowns coach Hue Jackson says owners support him in midst of season he ‘never...
Coach Hue Jackson still feels the love from Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam despite the nightmare he’s living.“I never could have dreamt this ever,” Jackson said Friday during a conference call.With...
View ArticleCavaliers 105, Wizards 94: Cavs’ fourth-quarter woes disappear in victory...
WASHINGTON: There isn’t much to nitpick on a team that entered the night tied for the best mark in the Eastern Conference, but one of coach Tyronn Lue’s legitimate concerns has been the Cavaliers’...
View ArticleHigh school football / St. Edward 41, Stow 35: Eagles hold on to edge...
TWINSBURG: An optimist would say Stow played well enough on Friday to beat most teams.A realist would say Lakewood St. Edward is better than most.For the second year in a row, St. Edward ended Stow’s...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules — Nov. 11
FOOTBALLPlayoff ScoreboardRegional SemifinalsFriday’s ResultsDIVISION IRegion 1Cleveland St. Ignatius 31, Solon 17Lakewood St. Edward 41, Stow 35Region 2Powell Olentangy Liberty 45, Medina 27Lorain 30,...
View ArticleHigh school football notebook: Saturday playoff games for East, Hoban, St....
Six high school football teams in the Akron Beacon Journal coverage area will play regional semifinal playoff games at 7 p.m. Saturday.Two of the games feature schools from Akron, with East traveling...
View ArticleHigh school soccer: Revere peaks at right time in quest for second Division...
The Revere soccer team entered the 2016 season with just two players with significant starting experience — junior Zack Kasson and senior Zane Van Fossen.Revere second-year coach Nick DePompei said...
View ArticleMarine surprises his sister at Barberton school after six years apart
In the six years Brandon Griffith was away in California serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, his youngest sister, Alea, kept him in her thoughts at home in Barberton.This Veterans Day, he was on her mind...
View ArticleAnti-Trump activists to march Tuesday from Highland Square to University of...
Opponents of President-elect Donald Trump in the Akron area will join the national protests on Tuesday.A protest against the new president-elect is scheduled to start 11 p.m. Tuesday in Akron’s...
View ArticleJudge to deadlocked jury: Keep deliberating fate of officer
CINCINNATI: Jurors appeared to struggle Friday as they deliberated in the murder trial of a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man during a traffic stop.The panel ended its third...
View ArticleIdentities released in suspected murder-suicide in Akron
AKRON: The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office on Saturday identified the couple found dead a day earlier in Firestone Park as Miles Simmons, 22, and Drew Foster, 21.Both died of gunshot wounds....
View ArticleDouglas Prade’s daughters stand by their father as he fights for new trial in...
Kenya and Sahara Prade remain strongly in their father’s corner and insist he was never capable of killing their mother. “That’s not in his character,” Kenya Prade said. During a Dec. 28 phone...
View ArticleRobin Swoboda: The highs and lows of life in the country
Who could use a story with a happy ending? I know I could.The World Series. The Browns. The election.Since Tuesday, Facebook has become a cesspool of vitriol and I am shocked and saddened by the...
View ArticleTrump may revisit Trump Country during a victory tour
NEW YORK: Donald Trump may take a victory tour to states that elected him president, an aide said Saturday, as boisterous protests unfolded outside the tower where he holed up with members of his...
View ArticleUA hosts Brooke McMahan swim invitational, where winning isn’t everything
Brooke McMahan looks like a mermaid in the drawing, her long curls unfurling into trails of stars as she moves through the water. Her mom, retired Beacon Journal writer Kim Hone-McMahan, taught Brooke...
View ArticleJohn Carroll 31, Mount Union 28: Blue Streaks stop Purple Raiders’ 112-game...
ALLIANCE: Anthony Moeglin was raised about 10 miles from the Mount Union campus.You might say he grew up on Saturday.The quarterback from St. Thomas Aquinas led John Carroll to the biggest victory in...
View ArticleHigh school scores, summaries and schedules —
REPORTING SCORESSchools are encouraged to report scores by email at bjsports@thebeaconjournal.com, by fax at 330-996-3629 or by phone at 330-996-3800. Please report scores from home and away games and...
View ArticleHigh school football/Archbishop Hoban 21, St. Vincent-St. Mary 7: Knights top...
Beating your archrival is often a daunting task. Doing it twice in the same high school football season? Even tougher.Archbishop Hoban accomplished just that Saturday night. But more than bragging...
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