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(Editor’s note: This story marks the first of 11 high school football team previews, which will run leading up to and alongside Friday’s “2022 Footbal...

RIDGWAY — They could have mentioned their fifth consecutive playoff appearance. Or, perhaps their winning record in the regular season. After a 5th pl...

His 5-5, 145-pound frame might not stand out on the street. But as Braedon Johnson has shown throughout his career, it’s tough to miss him on the foot...

Mark Heindl knows that the New York offense has its strengths. However, in leading the Pennsylvania defense into Saturday’s Big 30 All-Star Charities ...

After a 735-day wait, the latest renewal of the Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic is finally here for many of the area’s top graduated football player...

For the first time since its inception in 1974, the annual Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic between senior football players from New York and Pennsyl...

The accomplishments go on and on for Ridgway head coach Mark Heindl. In 2017, he was named Big 30 Coach of the Year. In both 2018 and 2019 he was hono...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — As with most year-end banquets, it was a true celebration of everything that had come before it. Fewer than 48 hours earlier, the Big...

SLIPPERY ROCK — Ridgway will find itself in familiar territory when it travels to Slippery Rock tonight for the PIAA quarterfinals, as the Elkers are ...

DUBOIS — For the fourth year in a row, the Ridgway Elkers are District 9 champions, and all it took was a performance for the record books. Behind fiv...

DUBOIS — Only once before in District 9 history has a team won at least four District championships in a row: Karns City’s six-year title streak from ...

DUBOIS — When Ridgway traveled to Karns City on Oct. 4, the game was a defensive slugfest that came down to the wire. The Elkers (9-1) narrowly escape...

JOHNSONBURG — It will be a battle of opposites when Ridgway and Brookville square off with the Large School Division title on the line tonight in John...

KARNS CITY — In a battle of heavyweights, Karns City couldn’t land the last haymaker. The Gremlins had first-and-goal at the Ridgway nine with a minut...

JOHNSONBURG — Ridgway head coach Mark Heindl said he wanted his team to start fast in its game against Bradford. His Elkers delivered on the first pla...

JOHNSONBURG — For Bradford, tonight’s game against Ridgway presents an opportunity to continue the signs of growth exhibited against Kane last week. F...

RIDGWAY — For the past two seasons, the formula for success has been rather simple for the Ridgway football team — defense wins District 9 championshi...

KARNS CITY — The effort and desire was there from start to finish for Ridgway. But sometimes, the other team is just better. The Elkers saw their seas...

KARNS CITY — There are a lot of words that come to mind when you think of Ridgway football. Toughness. Physicality. Defense. Now you can add another t...

RIDGWAY — There aren’t a whole lot of downsides to winning back-to-back district championships, but one of them is that you usually have to replace a ...