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PORTVILLE — For most of Friday night’s championship game of the Don Jordan Memorial Tournament, the Portville softball team struggled to find a way on...

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...

PORTVILLE — At this point, it’s become expected. A year ago, the Portville and Franklinville boys basketball teams played three heart-stopping, one-po...

Although it is heartbreaking I was unable to play softball my senior season for PCS, I have a great deal to be thankful for. I am unbelievably gratefu...

PORTVILLE — Bill Torrey got the idea from the coaching staffs at Ellicottville and Cattaraugus-Little Valley. He’d seen some of the videos that had po...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Portville appeared to be in another tight, tense softball contest, much like the one it had four days ago against the defending stat...

ST. BONAVENTURE — For six innings, the Portville and Chautauqua Lake softball teams locked into a pitchers’ duel, with just four runs and seven hits b...

PORTVILLE — After surviving a few tense late innings with Cattaraugus-Little Valley, the Portville softball team is back to where its season ended a y...

PORTVILLE — With 3:52 to go in the third quarter, Bill Torrey saw the momentum shifting away. Oswayo Valley retook the lead in the third in a non-leag...

ST. BONAVENTURE – As the sun slowly descended upon Joyce Field, Portville furiously attempted a rally to save one of the school’s best softball season...

For the Portville and Franklinville softball teams, the road to the state final four goes through the Big 30. There will be no need for long bus rides...

PORTVILLE — Even with almost everybody back from a sectional championship team, Bill Torrey acknowledged there were some nerves. Visiting Cattaraugus-...

OLEAN — How did the Portville softball team celebrate its biggest win of the season? The Panthers hopped on a school bus Tuesday and headed to Fillmor...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a six-part series previewing the Big 30 baseball and softball teams. Today: Cattaraugus County softball) You won’t...

When the Big 30 baseball/softball All-Star committee met two Sundays ago, those who were on hand did their homework. The committee of seven area high ...

DUNKIRK — A daunting two-loss opponent, a couple of early defensive miscues, a first-inning 2-1 deficit. None of it seemed to faze the Portville softb...

DUNKIRK — Bill Torrey and his Portville softball team have heard the stories. Now in his 12th year with the PCS athletics program, he’s seen a number ...

DUNKIRK — The Portville softball team made history by winning the program’s first Section 6 Class C-2 title over the weekend. It added to that chapter...