baseball

He signed with the New York Yankees in 1951, spending his first professional season, at age 19, with the club’s Class D affiliate in … Olean, N.Y. And...

In early July 2020, the sports world was still very much at a standstill. The Olean Oilers, of the New York Collegiate Baseball League, and Olean 1854...

Earlier this season, in this space, my frustration with the incursion of analytics into baseball telecasts boiled over. However, I’ve actually gotten ...

The Cattaraugus County Youth Bureau is pleased to announce this week’s featured Youth Citizenship Award recipient is Jayden Gustafson. Jayden is the s...

PORTVILLE — For a single team, in a single sweltering afternoon, the adversity was overwhelming. Portville baseball coach Mike Matz, sensing that some...

BUFFALO — These two teams had seen each other before. In May 2019, the Olean High baseball team, with more experience than its counterpart, which was ...

SOUTH DAYTON — For a fleeting moment, the Franklinville baseball team was in command. Tied at 1 through three innings, the FCS Panthers exploded for s...

FALCONER — The final score indicates that the Portville softball team was handled with relative ease. But this was a classic case of the scoreboard fa...

OLEAN — Jason Brooks just missed on his opportunity to win the game in the seventh. The star senior, his coach maintained, wasn’t going to come short ...

PORTVILLE — The unbeaten Portville baseball team has buried opponents with big innings all season — so much so that some Big 30 football squads would ...

NORTH COLLINS — Beau Bielecki was likely just trying to get something going. Instead, he wound up changing things entirely. With the Franklinville bas...

From handling the instruction of youth like “dynamite” to a big night for the Olean Oilers, from a girl’s checkered flag to treating Route 219 like a ...

When Joe Beimel retired from professional baseball in 2017, he had already enjoyed a career that most players would be satisfied with — himself includ...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Perhaps it was a gut-check moment for the Ellicottville baseball team. Eight days ago, the Eagles, after having already split with Sal...

FRANKLINVILLE — The score would suggest that the Franklinville baseball team won in a rout. In reality, however, the Panthers had to earn this one. An...

OLEAN — On June 1, the Olean High softball team had enough pitching, but not hitting. Consequently, it was blanked by Dunkirk, 3-0. Seventeen days lat...

FRIENDSHIP — In the final game of the season, Friendship freshman pitcher Neveah Ross turned in a dominant two-way performance, leading the Eagles to ...

OLEAN — In the rubber match of three regular season games with Southwestern, the Olean High baseball team found itself in a pitchers’ duel until the s...