Baseball

ERIE, Pa. — It appeared to be a foregone conclusion, one the Peterson family eagerly awaited for a few years. Johnsonburg (Pa.) native Cole Peterson w...

WAYLAND — Second-seeded Le Roy did all its damage in one inning, but it was more than enough to deny Wellsville of the Section 5 Class B2 baseball cha...

HORNELL — It didn’t play out exactly the way Dennie Miles had hoped, but when it was over, the situation ended the way he wanted. Miles, who spent 42 ...

FRANKLINVILLE — It was the summation of a stretch run to the regular season that included four losses in its last five games. And it was the Franklinv...

DUBOIS, Pa. — Jame Thomas wasn’t sure if it was nerves or butterflies or something else. But whatever it was, the Otto-Eldred baseball coach hadn’t se...

GOWANDA — For Eric Hemphill, baseball can be a simple game. To the Allegany-Limestone coach, “The name of the game is free passes (walks) and errors a...

MEDINA — The skinny on Medina is that the Mustangs can pitch. Just look at their 1.70 team ERA. However, it didn’t take long for the Olean High School...

CUBA — The Cuba-Rushford baseball team won its first Section 5 playoff game in five years Saturday. And as coach Steve Yatzkanic said, “You couldn’t h...

PORTVILLE — This was a matchup Mike Matz hoped to avoid. Even though the Portville baseball team had beaten Salamanca twice this season in CCAA East I...

ALLEGANY — A mix of young and old has the Allegany-Limestone baseball team one win from returning to the Section 6 finals. The Gators gave the ball Fr...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Every run was important. But rather than a clutch hit, it was smarts on the basepaths that have Olean High School playing at least o...

Following Friday’s seeding meeting, the Section 5 baseball playoffs begin today. Five Big 30 teams are scheduled for first-round games late this morni...

The road back to a Section 6 baseball title isn’t an easy one for Olean High School. In fact, it begins today for Les DeGolier’s team. The seventh-see...

BOLIVAR — Steve Yatzkanic didn’t necessarily come into the season expecting a county championship out of his Cuba-Rushford baseball team, which had go...

R H E HR: Austyn Cummings (W) OLEAN — Olean can only hope its hitters rediscover their stroke in the Section 6 Class B-1 baseball playoffs. After a 10...

We’ve reached the final days of the 2019 regular season for New York’s high school baseball and softball teams. Believe it or not, the postseason will...

He once rode a horse over old Forness Field with mayor Fred Forness Jr. That’s essentially the extent of what a younger generation knew, or had been t...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Make it three straight following a 1-5 start for the Ellicottville baseball team. Ryan DeKay recorded a pair of doubles and an RBI and...