baseball

DUNKIRK — New Olean High baseball coach Les DeGolier feared the effects a long layoff might have on his team. When the Huskies took the field for a no...

CUBA — After losses, Dennie Miles tells his Wellsville baseball players to “get on the line,” four oft-repeated words instructing them to run a sprint...

Wellsville baseball coach Dennie Miles can rattle off a few particular numbers with ease. Eighteen, 12, 42, 702 and 713. Seven hundred and two was the...

BELFAST — For a moment, Rich Sullivan was Coach Sullivan again. The longtime Belfast Central School mentor took the field that he’d overseen from the ...

His credentials as a player have long-since been established. Salamanca native John Dry not only is a member of the National Fast-Pitch Softball Hall ...

WELLSVILLE — The Wellsville baseball team was ready for this. With the winter weather still thawing, the Lions last week were able to squeeze in a cou...

Cole Peterson was about to take a nap. The former St. Bonaventure and Olean Oilers star had just returned to his hotel room from an afternoon practice...

Catching up on a couple of notes from February as March comes in like a lion: LAST WEEKEND, the Olean High School wrestling team had two representativ...

WELLSVILLE — Hospitality is the prerequisite for sportsmanship in Wellsville this summer. The Wellsville Nitros baseball team, the second-oldest team ...

A year ago, high school baseball coaches in New York had to contend with a rule change regulating pitch counts and mandated rest based on them. Now, p...

Flying across the country to compete for millions of dollars in Los Angeles – it sounds like the beginning of a movie, but it’s just the latest exploi...

Obituaries can be fascinating reading … a capsule look at an individual’s life. Some are brief summations with only the most basic information. Others...

After 40 years of Little League umpiring, Ron Coleman got the letter from Williamsport, Pa., he’s been waiting for last month. Coleman, who started um...

From feeling the heat from fuel shortages to keeping “saboteurs” at bay, from a boost in the polls for the Bonnies to big sales for Elvis, here’s a lo...

The last he was featured prominently in these pages, Carl Holmes was a football player. Remember his story? An all-star soccer player as a junior, Hol...

As the horn sounded and the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team made its way despondently down the sideline for post-game handshakes, one thought se...

PORTVILLE — What’s the biggest difference between playing sports in high school and college? How does one manage both sides of being a collegiate stud...

ST. BONAVENTURE — The birthday girl pounded her chest, took a glance at the scoreboard and let out a loud “Woo!” Mariah Ruff had just made her second ...