Jimmy Joe Savage TO THE HOOP — Big Red’s Cole Bowers takes it to the hoop driving between East Liverpool’s Dre’Kiem Abercrombie, Javan Dawson and Nolan Irving.

EAST LIVERPOOL — Steubenville, which returned the bulk of its team which reached the D3 regional semifinals last season, jumped out to an 8-0 lead in the first 53 seconds of the game and never looked back in rolling to a 99-68 running clock win over a youthful East Liverpool squad in Potter Fieldhouse Friday night.

It was the season-opening game for Big Red, but Steubenville looked in midseason form offensively as it placed four starters in double figures. Leading the way was returning All-Ohio junior point guard Santino Haney who poured in a game-high 34 points and was in double digits in assists in a little over three quarters o

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