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OLEAN — Mere weeks after his high school graduation in Atlanta, Daniel Jackson is a long way from home. But the Olean Oilers’ youngest of three catche...

OLEAN — It might have become a little too close for Olean’s comfort. After building up seemingly insurmountable leads of 9-0 and 11-2, the Oilers some...

HOUGHTON — For as well as they had been playing of late, vaulting to first place in the league standings and more or less remaining there, the Olean O...

Mike Matz summed up what so many others were thinking at that same moment. “This is so freaking cool,” the Portville baseball coach said in a text upo...

It was every cliche that has long categorized this kind of unbelievable sports moment: Feel-good. Odds-defying. Befitting a Hollywood script. Except t...

From fighting TB with optimism and later x-rays, from looking back on flood losses to a new purpose for the Wheeler House, here’s a look back on the w...

HOUSTON — Standing on an MLB mound for the first time, Shawn Dubin’s first inning, and first batter in particular, could not have gone better. The 27-...

Allegany native Shawn Dubin received his first call-up to Major League Baseball on Sunday, joining the Houston Astros. Dubin started the season, his f...

It’s not unusual for prayer to play a role in sports. “Spahn, Sain, and pray for rain!” was the famous refrain of Boston Braves fans in 1948, when the...

OLEAN — Cole Sebastian had been heating up, with three two-hit games in his first five games of the season with the Olean Oilers. But Thursday night a...

Portville senior Michael Cole and Salamanca junior Jaxson Ross shared the top prize for CCAA East baseball players in postseason honors released follo...

MORICHES — Matt Burke was numb. The Wellsville softball coach was struggling, he said, to both process what had happened and to find the words to expl...

Update: As of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Wellsville school administrators had canceled all outdoor activities for Thursday as well as Wednesday, forcing the...

OLEAN — The Olean Oilers’ Kids Day game against Dansville, set for Thursday at 10:30 a.m., will not be open to the general public, the team announced....

From remembering a titan of Olean business to the shutdown of Thatcher Glass, from gutter talk to a triple appearance on “Jeopardy!”, here’s a look ba...

DANSVILLE — The Olean Oilers’ 2023 season began the same way its 2022 campaign ended: With a potential win that instead turned into a stinging walkoff...

WEBSTER — The Wellsville softball team had won three-straight sectional titles and advanced to the last two Far West Regionals as it staked its claim ...

( Editor’s note: Following is the second in a two-part series previewing the Olean Oilers’ 2023 season: Today: a general preview focused on new coach ...