ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Oh home sweet home.

Playing on the familiar artificial pitch inside Red Devil Stadium, St. Clairsville showed why it was the No. 1 seed in the OVAC Class 4A boys’ soccer tournament.

Saturday morning the Red Devils (9-1-1) captured their fifth conference championship in program history with a 3-0 victory over second-seeded Beaver Local. They had blanked the Beavers (9-3) by a 1-0 count earlier in the season in Lisbon.

The championship was the first since St. Clairsville went back-to-back in 2019 and 2020. They lost to Weir in the 2021 finals.

“It was a great match,” St. Clairsville head coach Jeff Roberts said. “We came out firing from the start and we kept the pressure on. Our set-pieces looked pretty good today and Lucas Causey had two assists and Parker Galloway got

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