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Quantity achieved, STWOA enhances quality for ‘25
Local Sports, Sports
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
December 11, 2025
STWOA grows to 36 teams, set for JCC this weekend In 2023, upon inheriting the organizational reins, Tyler Taylor had a vision: To restore the prestig...
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‘It was time’ for Oilers to make jump to PGCBL
Baseball, College Sports, Local Sports, ...
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
December 4, 2025
OLEAN — This kind of move had been years in the making. The Olean Oilers had long been one of the banner programs in the New York Collegiate Baseball ...
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Low numbers aside, Portville’s goals remain lofty
Local Sports, Sports
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
December 2, 2025
Rhinehart, Haynes back from last year’s sectional semi team For the Portville girls basketball team, it could probably have been viewed as a retooling...
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Napoleon, NC State win national XC title
Local Sports, Sports
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
November 24, 2025
After winning ACC title, A-L grad helps Wolfpack win it all In the previous six months, Angelina Napoleon had collected the titles of conference champ...
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Ellicottville falls to York in Far West Regional
Local Sports, Sports, Volleyball
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
November 18, 2025
Another strong ECS season ends with 3-0 sweep WAYNE — A year earlier, nearly to the day, the Ellicottville girls volleyball team rallied from a 2-0 de...
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Eagles make it back-to-back titles
Local Sports, Sports, Volleyball
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
November 7, 2025
ECS earns thrilling five-set win over Clymer for D title The Ellicottville girls volleyball team figured it would be facing a motivated and revenge-mi...
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Napoleon notches top-10 finish at Worlds
Local Sports, Sports
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
September 17, 2025
A-L grad runs 3K steeple in 9:17.44, takes ninth place As each of the 15 competitors was announced, Angelina Napoleon did as she always does: She smil...
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Napoleon set for World Championships stage
Local Sports, Sports
INTERNATIONAL TRACK AND FIELD
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
September 12, 2025
Allegany native to compete in 3000 steeple in Tokyo By all accounts, the World Athletics Championships mark the highest level of senior international ...
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Now a ‘community’ event, Men’s Am still strong, growing
Local Sports, Sports
By J.P. BUTLER, Olean Times Herald 
August 15, 2025
Before 1999, it was just a golf tournament … A premier golf tournament, to be sure, but really nothing more than that. “And it was kind of, I don’t kn...
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