Prep football stars begin practice for Stateline game
Sorelle Cope may have said it best as she took her seat in the bleachers to watch a non-contact practice in preparation for the 31st Pennsylvania-Ohio Stateline All-Star Football Classic: “Well, this is the last hurrah.”
As the grandmother of East Palestine’s Austin Cope, she was speaking for most of the recent high school graduates who are playing in their last high school-related athletic contest.
Cope is one of 36 players on the Ohio team, which has its first contact practice today at 6 p.m. at East Palestine’s stadium.
The Stateline game is June 25 at West Branch High’s Clinton Heacock Stadium in Beloit.