PICTURED: UNDER THE DIRECTION OF HEAD COACH PAT BIRCH, pictured, the Boardman High School Spartans basketball team won the school’s first league title (All American Conference/Red Tier) with a big victory over Warren Harding last weekend. The school’s last league title came in the 1999-2000 season when the Spartans, under the direction of Dan Gorski, won a Steel Valley Conference title.