baseball

GOWANDA — A year later, with the same two teams playing for a trip to Long Island, Westfield was surely out for revenge against Friendship/Scio. It di...

GOWANDA — In the immediate aftermath, it might have lamented a rough first inning. It began well enough, with Malayna Ayers — as she’d done for much o...

FILLMORE — The Friendship/Scio softball team registered two hits in the first inning of Tuesday night’s Section 5 Class D State Qualifier. It turned o...

FILLMORE — Trailing 3-0 through two innings, the Bolivar-Richburg softball team grabbed a 5-3 lead in the third inning and never trailed again. But al...

HONEOYE FALLS — To the average on-looker, there may currently be something of a cyclical difference between the Class B1 and B2 teams in Section 5 sof...

OLEAN — Local children showed off their baseball and softball skills this weekend in a 4,000-seat stadium. The Major League Baseball Pitch Hit & Run c...

From honoring the fallen to a doubly bad day for the Olean Oilers, from lamenting a lack of faith in government to cleaning up after high winds, here’...

JAMESTOWN — On paper, there wasn’t a ton about which the Ellicottville baseball team could be satisfied. The Eagles fell into an early 7-0 hole. They ...

WEBSTER — Matt Burke was clear in his assessment of this wild affair on Saturday afternoon at Webster Thomas High School. “That was the craziest game ...

IRONDEQUOIT — The Bolivar-Richburg softball team clinched a three-peat as Section 5 champions on Saturday, thanks in large part to its pitcher, Malayn...

WAYLAND — The Bolivar-Richburg baseball team had accomplished part one of its goal. A four-time defending Section 5 champion, the Wolverines, despite ...

JAMESTOWN — Determined to win the “rubber match” and finish a trilogy of Section 6 Class C championship meetings, the Gowanda baseball team didn’t aff...

A descendant of the founder of a village in our Southern Tier area took time from watching his son play baseball in Buffalo to explore his family hist...

FREWSBURG — Mike Matz, a man of many nuggets of baseball wisdom, added another to his lengthy list of quotables: “We’ve preached this for a while,” th...

ELLICOTTVILLE — The Section 6 Class D baseball bracket has been anything but chalk this week. After two upsets in the top half of the draw — No. 8 Bar...

WELLSVILLE — The Wellsville softball team won in convincing fashion quite often during the regular season. Now, it’s continuing to do so even in the p...

BOLIVAR — With seven different players contributing a hit and Trey Buchholz tossing another gem on the mound, the Bolivar-Richburg baseball team rolle...

PORTVILLE — Tied 1-1 through three innings with the Portville softball team, Chautauqua Lake plated five runs in the fourth to take control of a Secti...