Soccer

EDEN — Maple Grove coach Mike Burr compared it to a heavyweight fight: “both teams felt each other out” in the first half Saturday. Burr’s Red Dragons...

PERRY — The Fillmore Central School girls soccer team hadn’t won a Section 5 championship in 19 years. But, this season, it seemed poised to do so. Th...

HORNELL — When asked if Avoca was the best opponent his team has faced this season, Belfast coach Mark Sullivan was definitive in his assertion that c...

WELLSVILLE — For the Fillmore Central School girls soccer team, the win was a long time coming. Nineteen years, to be exact. When the Eagles last reac...

BOLIVAR — It didn’t take long for the Hinsdale girls soccer team to demonstrate why it’s the No. 1 seed in the Section 5 Class D2 playoffs. In a 7-0 t...

BRADFORD, Pa. — After the way Kane won its quarterfinal playoff game on Monday, the Port Allegany boys soccer team was expecting a strong challenger t...

EDEN — Hunter DeYoe saw the pass come through, got a step on the defense and wouldn’t let anyone stand in the way of her team reaching the Section 6 c...

EAST AMHERST — It didn't come without a little bit of a scare. With 13:05 still remaining, after a foul inside the 18-yard box, Alden's Ashleigh Stras...

BELMONT — A successful boys’ soccer coach for more than two decades, Belfast’s Mark Sullivan knows a thing or two about advancing deep in the sectiona...

PERRY — Jamie Mullen knew what his team was in for. The Fillmore boys soccer coach, who has won 22 Allegany County championships in his 28 seasons (40...

EAST AMHERST — A year ago, the Allegany-Limestone Gators were the big dogs among Class C girls soccer teams. “We’re the Jack Russells now,” said coach...

Soccer is a way of life for Kuzma Harmon. Adopted from Russia when he was only four years old, the Friendship senior immediately gravitated toward the...

TONAWANDA — It was the game Allegany-Limestone had been waiting all year to play. Given a second chance against Southwestern — the team responsible fo...

TONAWANDA — For the Olean High boys soccer team, there was no shame in this defeat. With eight minutes remaining in Saturday night’s Section 6 Class B...

EDEN — The Ellicottville boys soccer team got a later start to its postseason than it anticipated, but appeared ready nonetheless. Scheduled for 2:30 ...

BUFFALO — The Olean High girls soccer team had just finished practice and was cheering for the boys team when it won on penalty kicks a day earlier at...

BUFFALO — The Olean High girls soccer team had just finished practice and was cheering for the boys team when it won on penalty kicks a day earlier at...

BELFAST — Adam Enders scored 31 regular-season goals for the Belfast boys soccer team. Andrew Blocho had two. But they both came up big for the Bulldo...