Former Maplewood football player Chris Simpson has been named the coach at his alma mater, replacing former Vanderbilt wide receiver Erik Davis, who resigned as the Panthers' coach after two seasons.

Maplewood High School and Maplewood Band Boosters will host the Jazz Festival today. This year’s festival will feature a host of local talent from high schools in northwestern Pennsylvania and conclude with a special guest performance by the Baldwin Wallace University Music Conservatory Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Gabriel Piqué.

Maplewood High School and Maplewood Band Boosters will host the Jazz Festival on Wednesday. This year’s festival will feature a host of local talent from high schools in northwestern Pennsylvania and conclude with a special guest performance by the Baldwin Wallace University Music Conservatory Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Gabriel Piqué.

It's always a battle to the final whistle when the Cambridge Springs and Maplewood girls basketball teams take the floor.

Driven largely by fears that Cambridge Springs Junior-Senior High could be closed — and rumors the closure was already a done deal — more than 250 residents

High school boys basketball in Middle Tennessee is populated with talented coaches who were also talented players in the Nashville area. Here are 15.

Davis, a former Ezell-Harding and Vanderbilt receiver, took over the Maplewood program in May of 2021. It was his first head coaching job after previously spending time as an assistant at Stratford. He was a graduate assistant at Tennessee State (2010-15) and was an assistant at Hillsboro from 2016-18.

Principia (14-2) visits Bayless on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Maplewood-RH (9-10) plays at home against Brentwood on Friday at 5:30 p.m. Macaleab Rich poured in 27 points as Flyers hold off Red Devils. John Wright’s team is headed into the meat grinder.

Also finishing in double figures for Maplewood-RH was Eric Shaw with 12 points. The leading rebounder for Maplewood-RH was Micah Boone (11).

Chloe Swedlund had a game-high 28 points to lead Maplewood-RH to a 51-23 win over Hancock Thursday at Hancock.